"Now see, I don't know how anyone can defend #2 but hate on #4.Temple of Doom was just horrendous."

It'd be nice to visit some of these. Although perhaps not Ten Forward, which was desperately dull and completely soulless. Still. by the late 24th century places like Ten Forward were the closest thing to bars allowed by the Federation's totalitarian dystopia, certainly aboard imperial warships like the Enterprise.…

I was going to suggest that too!

In the context of television SF, where the writers are normally scientifically illiterate, hard SF is not making any truly laughable blunders, like opening a window in your moonbase before flying your helicopter off to the nearest coal mine, or not knowing the difference between stars and planets, or between solar…

That wouldn't be remake of Space: 1999.

That's the part I never liked.

The following, from a 1975 review of Space: 1999 by Isaac Asimov, mentions some of the things hopefully avoided by any remake.

You get to do an alternate Earth show, ranging from minor historical changes to completely different evolutionary paths resulting in effective aliens.

Precisely the same thing I suggested, no? Just with the addition of aliens.

Yeah, it bugs the hell out of me! There's plenty of good, well-written hard SF in print. There's nothing wrong with fantasy and magic realism and what have you, but does everything have to be like that? You'd think there'd be the tiniest niche available for some hard SF on TV, instead of every single alleged SF show…

"But just to be sure, by hard sf, do you mean it should follow the rules of modern day science completely and to a t, with no small derivations and speculation allowed?"

In the particular case of a Space: 2099 series I suppose I would prefer a more realistic approach, largely because there is a dearth of semi-realistic SF on television. I don't think the way the Moon was moved in the original series possibly make any less sense - they might as well tie a flock of geese to Copernicus…

"Does fiction always have to be scientifically accurate?"

Apologies for the wall of text. The Gawkerkraken ate my formatting.

I remember watching a lot of Space: 1999 back in university SF society, and inevitably talk arose of how one would handwave moving the Moon in a remake.

I loved Space: 1999 as a kid, and I'm not averse to remakes which take advantage of modern technology, so this might be interesting.

"Gotta laugh at AGW Cultists...."

*reads*

The list on IMDB is not encouraging, as there's nothing there I feel is worth watching (although I assume The Pacific did quite well). I found both Falling Skies and Terra Nova very bland, but The River does at least look interesting.

Things like this are FUN!