I watched Thunderbirds and UFO as a kid, laughed at Space 1999 in junior high and discovered Captain Scarlet as an adult. He has given me hours and hours of enjoyable TV and will be missed.

For TOS I'd include Strangers from the Sky, a different take on first contact than the movie, and Federation, a better meeting of Kirk and Picard than than Generations. Also, David R. George's Crucible trilogy is amazing. The first book in the series, the McCoy book, is freaking amazing. Part of it is telling McCoy's…