I’d say that in 1999, the shot that gives me chills every time is that shot of the entire lunar horizon lighting up when the nuclear waste dumps chain and explode. It’s not a starship, unless you count the moon ITSELF becoming one with a single monumental thrust burn.

What is this and why don't I have it? 

I know it was based on Johann David Wyss’ Swiss Family Robinson, but in the original television series they were headed to pioneer and colonize a newly-discovered planet around Alpha Centauri. The Swiss Family Robinson were headed for Port Jackson, then already a thriving community in Australia.

Safety shmafety. The original show aired before cars even had to have seat belts. You know, the Good Old Days (TM). Back when both the air and water were polluted, and people liked it, because that’s how dad’s corporate bosses wanted it. Now you kids pipe down back there, or I’m turning this station wagon around and…

But it was just filled with middle management. However everyone back home on earth promised they’d be coming along afterwards.

If memory serves, it was a sci-fi takeoff on the western frontiersman genre...the family were supposed to land on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri and essentially stake a legal claim for the United States, who would then send their own larger colony-ships to establish a full settlement. In the meantime, the Robinsons…

IIRC, they were supposed to setup a colony on a distant planet and others would join them later. Dr. Smith sabotaged the ship so that they were thrown off course when the hyperdrive engaged. I think it was originally presented as:

in what universe did papa johns ever make ‘medium-good’ pizza? the only pizza they ever were better than was dominoes, and even they turned it around and overtook them years ago. i will eat months old no-brand gas station pizza before i eat papa johns

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I’m reading Annihilation and it is very Roadside Picnic as told by an HP Lovecraft narrator.

I clicked on this article ready to hate it. I have to say though... we agree almost entirely. I would say the Enterprise A is my favorite, overall.

I also appreciate the work that went into justifying the placements. This is the kind of list that’s asking for nerd rage.

Well, you’re wrong. The Galaxy-X Enterprise-D is the best Enterprise-D.

I would say that the Enterpise D from “All Good Things” is the best Enterprise, if only because it’s the only ship that figured out that you can fly vertically in space, instead of keeping to horizontal lines.

I burned through the first book in a single sitting (less so, the other two) and, while it sounds like they probably took a lot of liberties with plot points, it sounds like they got the tone and the essence of it pretty spot-on. All during my reading of it, I got the feeling that trying to adapt it too closely would…

I feel like Denis Villeneuve could have done much better with this film.

I think the law should be that you have to ask riddles about hamburgers.

His name is...Tim?

Tim the Prodigal Sorcerer or GTFO.

All the stars, man!

So I waited to watch the first couple of episodes before I responded to this review. I’m still confused by your persistent issues with the main character, especially when there’s stranger choices at play in the overall series.