Ranking the All Time Best Science Fiction Characters

Just for funzies,let's see how the so called "closed minded fans" of BSG would rank the top Science Fiction Characters.

After reading SFX awful poll I think we could do a better job.

My choices for top 10 Science Fiction Characters are Not in this order but it was my quick pick.

Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Mr Spock (Star Trek)
Fox Mulder (X-Files)
Jango Fett (Star Wars)
Han Solo (Star Wars)
Ham Tyler Michael Ironside's character (V)
Starbuck (BSG) The original one with balls Dirk Benedict
Cigerett Smoking Man CGB Spender (X-Files)
Captain Kirk (Star Trek)
Data (Star Trek TNG)

If we were going for the top 20

Dana Skully (X-Files)
Baltar (BSG) The original one, not the one based on Clinton.
Worf-son of Mog (Star Trek TNG)
Alex Krycheck (X-Files)
Darth Maul (Star Wars)He was the only good thing in Ep 1.
Col Steve Austin (Six Million $ Man)
Comander Cain (BSG)
Riply (Alien)
Captain Picard (Star Trek TNG)
Sara Conner (Terminator)

[dvo47p]

Michael Rennie (Klaatu) The Day the Earth Stood Still
*This has just been put on DVD, check Amazon

Harrison Ford, Blade Runner/Raiders of the Lost Ark/Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back

Sigourney Weaver, Alien/Aliens, Love that underwear!

William Shatner/Kirk, Leonard Nimoy/Spock, and DeForest Kelley/Dr. McCoy, Star Trek TOS & Movies II. IV & VI.
The TNG, DS9 et al, are OK not great, it is time to put this franchise to an end.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator/Terminator 2/Lots of other Scifi, Arnold rocks!

Charlton Heston, Planet of the Apes. Just the original, not the others & The Omega man.

Bruce Willis, Twelve Monkeys/The Fifth Element

Christopher Reeve, Superman, just the first one.

Hal 9000, 2001 A Space Odyssey (Hal stole the show) Dave: "Hal open this hatch" Hal ".... silence ....Hal900 "Dave what are you doing Dave?".... silence

The Thing, Yes, both versions, a rare remake that was as better than the original.

Battlestar Galactica, with Richard Hatch/Dirk Benedict/Anne Lockhart/Herb Jefferson. A continuation is the only way to go.

Twilight Zone, hosted by Rod Serling. Never again, lightning does not strike twice.

From my locked DVD drawer, I love these older movies:
When Worlds Collide/Forbidden Planet/ The Time Machine/Invasion of the Body Snatchers/ Metropolis/Journey to the Far Side of the Sun/ Fahrenheit 451

[peter noble]

My Top 10:

1. Apollo (BSG)
2. Dr Who (Dr Who)
3. Avon (Blake's 7)
4. Ham Tyler (V)
5. Maya (Space 1999)
6. Captain Scarlet (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)
7. Galen (Planet of the Apes TV Series)
8. Jamie Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
9. Ender Wiggin (The Enders series by Orson Scott Card)
10. Hawk (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

The next 10:

11. Matt Sikes (Alien Nation)
12. Buffy (BTVS)
13. Colonel George Taylor (Planet of the Apes [1968])
14. Sheba (BSG)
15. Starbuck (BSG)
16. Commander John Koenig (Space 1999)
17. The Vision (from The Avengers – Marvel Comics)
18. John Crichton (Farscape)
19. James T Kirk (Star Trek)
20. Aeryn Sunn (Farscape)

Regards,

Peter

[Rowan]

My top 10 but in no particular order

Darth Vader - Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back (only)
E.T.
Ellen Ripley - Aliens
Chewbacca - Star Wars
C3P0 - Star Wars
The Terminator (the first one)
Dr. Ellie Arroway - Contact
Wolverine - X-Men
Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan - Farscape
Ka D'argo - Farscape

The next 10:

Duncan MacLeod - Highlander the series
Han Solo - Star Wars
Starbuck - BSG TOS
Jean Luc Picard - TNG
David - A.I.
Aeryn Sun - Farscape
Max Evans - Rosewell: Crashdown
Max - Dark Angel
Elliot - E.T.
Sarah Connor - Terminator 1+2

[gmd3d]

My top 10 in order

01 Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
02 Mr Spock (Star Trek)
03 Commander Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
04 Lt Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)
05 Captain Apollo (Battlestar Galactica)
06 Han Solo (Star wars)
07 Mr Scott (Star Trek)
08 Doc McCoy (Star Trek)
09 Jack O'Neill (Stargate)
10 Luke Skywalker (Star wars)

[justjackrandom]

By medium, no particular order

Books:
E.C. Gordon (Robert A. Heinlein’s Glory Road)
Inspector Frost (Simon R. Green’s Deathstalker series)
Owen Deathstalker (Simon R. Green’s Deathstalker series)
Honor Harrington (David Webber’s series)
Alois Hammer (David Drake’s series)
Admiral Vanessa Murakuma (David Webber/Steve White’s In Death Ground & The Shiva Option).
The Black Foxes (all of them – Dennis McKiernan’s Caverns of Socrates)
Gully Foyle (Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination)
Ender Wiggin (Orson Scott Card’s series)
William Mandella (Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War)

TV - More than 10
Aeryn Sunn (Farscape)
Avon (Blake’s Seven)
Ed Straker (U.F.O)
James Kirk (Star Trek)
Spock (Star Trek)
John Danziger (Earth 2)
Zachary Smith (Lost in Space – season one particularly)
Max Evans (Roswell)
Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
Sheba (Battlestar Galactica)
Jack O’Neill (SG-1)
Shane Vansen (Space: Above and Beyond)
Xander Harris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Dana Scully (X-Files)
Andromeda (Andromeda)
Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
Lennier (Babylon 5)

Movies - More than 10
Ellen Ripley (Alien, etc.)
Roy Batty (Bladerunner)
Logan 5 (Logan’s Run)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Korben Dallas (The 5th Element)
Max Rockatansky (Mad Max, etc.)
Virgil Brigman (The Abyss)
Snake Plissken (Escape from New York)
Morpheus (The Matrix)
Trinity (The Matrix)
Riddick (Pitch Black)
Morbius (Forbidden Planet)
Dr. Strangelove (Dr. Strangelove)
Sarah Conner (Terminator 2)

would probably put together slightly different lists if I had more time to skull it...

JJR

[PlaidSquadron]

Top Sci-Fi Heroes (in no real order)
1. Luke Skywalker – farm boy grows up to save the good guys. He is utmost important in the fall of the empire (IMO)
2. Han Solo – the good hearted rouge (both characters missing from any of the new movies), and without him, Luke can not do what he needs to do.
3. James T. Kirk – yeah, Shatner may not be the greatest actor, but the Kirk character – decisive, strong, caring – a real leader of men and lover of women – is a prototype “hero.”
4 & 5. Apollo and Starbuck. The straight arrow and loose cannon. But each sworn to protect each other and humanity. Both willing to sacrifice for the other. But most heroic, willing to let the other sacrifice himself for the fleet. Truly noble heroes – and characters that are all but missing in most television and movies anymore
6. Ripley – fish out of water, struggling against all odds, still kicks butt and takes names. Oh yeah, she’s a woman, and one of the few good female characters
7 and 8. Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon – OK. It’s kind of hokey, but I like the 30s sci fi heroes. The 70s remakes were OK, but give me the 30s serials any day.
9. Buckaroo Banzai. He has it all. Rock Star, brain surgeon and ladies man.
10. Jack O’Neal. The TV version. I don’t know why, I just never cared for Kurt Russel’s version.


Top Sci-Fi Villains (also in no order)
1. Darth Vader. Sure, he was 2nd to the Emperor, but for sheer nastiness and scary, Vader comes out on top. For the first two movies, he was the bad guy. And like his heroic counter parts listed above, a true villain has yet to appear in the prequels
2. Aliens. Any one who wasn’t scared by the Aliens is lying. At least in the first two movies.
3. Baltar. The original. The Cylons are scary and could well be considered villainous. But paraphrasing RDM, we don’t understand them, so how can we say they are evil? Baltar, on the other hand, is human. And he sold out most of humanity for himself. Even if the attack on the colonies was unexpected, he eventually helps the cylons. He does it to save his own life, and to keep what fleeting power he has. He is a truly frightening character, because “there but for the grace of God….”
4. OK. I tried. But I can’t keep up the façade. I just re-read #3, and realized I am full of ****. The Cylons are just evil. And like Darth Vader, truly menacing in there shiny chrome and red eyes. No list of baddies from sci fi is complete with out them
5. Rutger Hower (misspelled, no doubt) from Bladerunner. He is just a scary guy, and his lethal character was one of the top baddies from the 80s
6. The Terminator. Arnold. As the Govenator got more popular, he morphed into the hero of the series, but I think he was best as the bad guy. The following movies, the new terminators got niftier special effects, but the original is the best.
7. The Predator. Hunting humans for sport. Ironic isn’t it?

[cranky1c]

Not confining myself to medium here.

1) Leto II from God Emperor of Dune
2) Darth Vader
3) Darwi Odrade from the last three original Dune books
4) Ripley from Aliens series
5) Lazarus Long
6) Rick Hunter from "Robotech"
7) Captain Picard
8) Luke Skywalker
9) Latter season Ben Sisko from DS9
10) Apollo

[amberstar]

Not really in order . These are my favorite top 10

1. Star Wars Yoda

2. ET

3. Starbuck TOS BSG

4. Spock Star Trek

5. Adama TOS BSG

6. Apollo TOS BSG

7.Q STNG

8. Han Solo

9. Darth Vader

10. R2D2

[gmd3d]

here is some I forgot but would like to include
no order

Superman. (film and comic)
Flash Gordon (I like the old serials too)
Spider-man. (film and comic)
Judge Dredd. ( comic only we will not mention the film)
Princess Leia (star wars)
Conan
Yoda (star wars)
Gandalf (lord of the rings)
Frodo (lord of the rings)
Sam (lord of the rings)
Aragorn (lord of the rings)

Some great answers. I will stick to just television and movies. My top ten:

1. James T. Kirk
2. Spock
3. Jean Luc Picard
4. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
5. Data
6. Apollo (TOS)
7. Starbuck (TOS)
8. Adama (TOS)
9. Luke Skywalker
10. Darth Vader

Honorable Mention:
11. Commander Caine
12. George Taylor (original Planet of the Apes)
13. Mr Scott (Star Trek TOS)
14. Korben Dallas (5th Element)
15. Logan (Logan's Run)
16. Jack O'Neille (Stargate)
17. Daniel Jackson (Stargate)
18. Samantha Carter (Stargate)
19. Tilk (sp?) (Stargate)
20. Matt Sikes (Alien Nation)
21. Sam Francisco (Alien Nation)

Anime Honorable Mention:

22. Rick Hunter (Robotech)
23. Derrick Wildstar (Star Blazers)
24. Nova (Star Blazers)
25. Minmai (Robotech)

[Ian_W359]

Here's another 10 - in no particular order....

G'Kar (Babylon 5)
Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek DS9)
Apollo (TOS)
Servalan (Blake's 7)
Gul Dukat (Star Trek DS9)
The Doctor/EMH (Star Trek Voyager)
Delenn (Babylon 5)
Diana (V)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

All the best,
Ian W359

My top 10 (in no particular order):

Gandalf (Lord Of The Rings)
Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Lt. Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)
Mr. Spock (Star Trek)
Commander Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
Han Solo (Star Wars)
Commander John Koenig (Space 1999)
Frodo Baggins (Lord Of The Rings)
Capt Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek TNG)
Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)

Honorable mention:

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
Aragorn (Lord Of The Rings)
Alan Carter (Space 1999)
Capt Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek DS9)
Lt. Ellen Ripley (Alien)
Capt. James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
Capt. Apollo (Battlestar Galactica)
Steve Austin (6 Million Dollar Man)