From http://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_removed_from_appstore_for_using_the_confederate_flag/post267
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http://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_removed_from_appstore_for_using_the_confederate_flag/post268 ... That's a tough question. Because many of them I've seen as a kid, and... well, some that I remember being magnificently superior to star trek turned out a bit embarrassing at second viewing. I was a huge fan of Space 1999 (season 1), and for many aspects I like it much better than Star Trek (it's less cocky, more tragic, I like its acting better, I love its premise, I like its designs better : ships, costumes, etc), but oh god the science the science. At this level it's not facepalming, it's self-beating to death.

As so I'm a bit terrified at the thought of checking the rest. The old Battlestar Galactica used to half-bore me (mostly because of the robotic kamikaze enemies), I was liking Buck Rogers a lot and I was probably hideously wrong about that (I suspect its cheese hasn't aged well).

I kinda liked the new BSG, which I expected to be real bad after the first scenes and debut promo, but it kinda suffers from being a total scam (that is, pretending to have a plot and ending up completely improvized into the most nonsensical arbitrary randomness). But I loved its style and production values and clever usage of music (very Homeworld-ish).

I've really enjoyed the Dr Who reboot, at least the first 4 or 5 seasons. I often considered it as an anti-StarTrek (for it being the absolute opposite of a military crew, and more ambivalent about humans), but it actually shares a lot of element (the crypto-political fables, sometimes painfully heavy-handed). And it lacks spaceships and stuff.

I haven't watched Farscape, Babylon 5, Firefly, etc. But I am generally not fond of the star trek approach to aliens design, shared by too many series (including Andromeda, that I discovered yesterday), and military settings easily bore me, so this narrows the possibilities.

As a kid, I loved cartoons like Captain Future (brace for retarded french title song), Once Upon A Time Space, and Ulysses 31 (still surprisingly good in hindsight, especially musically), so I wish there were more "live" series of that kind. But, meh.

So, finally, it's still mostly Star Trek (it does scifi quite right, for my tastes), and occasional movies, more than tv series. And videogames (from Elite to, even, Mass Effect or Space Quest) have very often the scifi feel that I look for. But that's still frustratingly narrow. Hence my occasionally despaired threads begging for space opera suggestions... Alas alas. Long ago, a friend used to be convinced that I'd love it, but... it didn't work on me. I didn't like its brand of not-knowing-whether-playing-for-laughs-or-seriously. But again, that's exactly what I had disliked on first contact with Dr Who, and loved afterwards. But then again, Lexx is not the same. I don't know. Maybe I should try again some day. But if I like it, I'll feel super bad towards that disappointed friend...

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In summary, I'm frustrated to not find enough movies/tv series with universes that feel the same as videogames, cartoons, or even comics space operas (I wasn't much into Valerian or Yoko Tsuno, but I was fond of the Scrameustache, back then... Became pretty lame after a while, though, or so it seems to me).