Favorit Scy-fi Scene

[Hawkwings]

"No, I am your father."

[Korto]

The climax of Blade Runner, when Roy Batty saves Decker's life and then delivers his "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" eulogy as he's dying. One of the most beautiful moments in SF cinema.

I'm going to have to give a "+1" on this. Watched it again only a few months ago, and it hit me hard.
Mind you, I was feeling pretty maudlin at the time. And it was raining.

[Panzersharkcat]

"No, I am your father."

"But how could they be jamming us if they don't know... if we're coming?" *oh, crap look*

From something outside of Star Wars, it'd probably be the Titan absorbing the Drej mothership to create a new planet. Of course, Cale has to go and name the new planet Bob.

[spaceviking]

Not necessarily my favorite movies....

The opening battle at the beginning of 'Star Trek' (2009) where Kirk's father rams the Romulan ship while talking to his wife and new son.

The scene in 'Soldier' where Kurt Russel's character fights his replacement on the climbing chains and rips his opponent's eye before being thrown down.

The scene in 'Serenity' when Mal leads approaches the Alliance fleet with the Reavers chasing him, and all hell breaks loose.

[ThomasP]

However nothing beats te goosebumps I always get with the scene from Babylon 5 when Sheridan is in the pit on Zhadum and Lorien is trying to convince him that he has to let go and find something worth living for. The goosebumps start right when Sheriden says:

These scenes would have been around the same episode (early S4 was some of the best B5) but I've always loved this one:



That scene is Peak Londo.

[Stofsk]

Londo is Babylon 5.

[2000AD]

Thinking just about TV series:

- Star Trek DS9: the ending of In the Pale Moonlight.

- Doctor Who: I'm a sucker for anytime in nuWho where The Doctor uses his name alone to cow the monster(s) of the week, be it Ten's "You're in the biggest library in the universe, look me up" or Eleven's "I am talking" at Stonehenge.

- The X-Files: 'X-Cops' the crossover with the Cops tv series, awesome episode from start to finish.

- Futurama: The origional ending of the seires before the DVD movies, with Leela asking Fry to keep playing the opera for her even though he no longer has the talent.

And a couple from video games just to throw them in there:
- Cave Johnson in Portal 2, all of him, following his descent from a bright new day, optimistic, science can do everything billionaire all the way down to a broken shell of a man culminating in his excellent "When life gives you lemons" speech. And it's a story entirely told through audio recordings, a major credit to JK Simmons that he can essentially tell that story on his own and have it work so well.

- Mordin's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2. Personally I think this is some of the best writing in all of science fiction, not just video games and is the first time a video game has actualy got me to think about serious issues like abortion, what constitutes genocide (or a war crime), the needs of a galaxy against the rights of a species and more, while still being in the framework of a game and not being too anvilicious, it just lets you take your own position and go with it.

[Stark]

He had also gotten slashed to the chest by Pinbacker or whatever the dude's name was. So when he fell he fell onto his wound. But he gets up, because billions of people are counting on him. Really powerful stuff. The music was awesome and it was used earlier in the film during Kaneda's exit scene. 'Kaneda- WHAT DO YOU SEE?!?!?'

You're so dead on with this; I rewatched the movie again and it's like a linked collection of my favourite scyfi scenes. Some of them even involve spaceships! Who knew there was a way to have people reflect on saving the human race without constantly whining about whether it's worth it?

[Eternal_Freedom]

SG-1, Season 6, "Disclosure." Kinsey in a verbal sparring match with Thor:

KINSEY: "Well, commander...." (raises finger to make a point)
THOR: (raises finger to annoy Kinsey and interrupts) "Supreme commander...."

That line and the finger get me every time.

Either that or the scene in "Lost City" where Kinsey get's his commupance:

HAYES: "Consider your resignation accepted."
KINSEY: "You can't do that!"
HAYES: "Oh please, I've got enough on you to have you shot!"

Stargate has a whole bunch of awesome bits.

[Shroom Man 777]

So, it really cut down to the core of the whole "disaster/blowing up meteor with nuke" movie which all those other blockbusters failed to touch (because they have all their heroes spouting one liners and shit and being Bruce Willis). Space Cillian was a pencil-necked scrawny shit, and yet everyone in the ship counted on him to do shit right and not fuck up, which was what Captain America said too. That Fat Chinese Guy fucked up, and it got to him, and he killed himself. All the other guys were also getting their screws a bit too tight. And the stress and the pressure was getting to Cillian, except when it came down to it, he manned up while everyone else in the spaceship died, suited himself up and went EVA and then we got treated to a scene of Goldman versus the Sun and Goldman won and saved the Earth! Bitchin'.

Danny Boyle makes such awesome movies where he takes cliche'd sci-fi scenarios (zombie invasion, space disaster save the world) and actually delves deeply into the characters involved to study their inherent humanity rather than "lol headshot zombie" or "bruce willis kills the asteroid" or whatever.

Which isn't to say that Armageddon wasn't awesome. Because it was. The Armageddon with the space meteors, not the one with Stuart Slade balls.

[Stark]

When you have a guy that hates you killing himself to help you, and you can sell that without resorting to explicit acknowledgement of it, that's good drama.

Mace is my favourite.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Speaking of Mace, I should add the "Yuo're under arrest, my Lord." line from ROTS. Gotta love SLJ.

[Dread Not]

That One Scene from Children of Men. You know, the long one.

I can't believe I didn't think of anything from Children of Men. I fucking lurve that movie. I think my favorite part is the ending. They make it to the buoy and wonder if they're too late. The jets fly overhead and bomb the crap out of the mainland. So many people have sacrificed their lives for the sake of one child. Theo's been shot and is bleeding all over the boat. Kee is trying to comfort her baby and Theo shows her how to hold her. Kee tells Theo that she'll name her baby after his son. Theo slumps over, possibly dead. Things look bleak, but then the ship shows up through the fog, and Kee tells baby Dylan that they're safe now. Then we cut to black and hear the sound of laughing children, and a single tear runs down my cheek.

For Star Wars I think my favorite moment has got to be:

Leia: I love you!

Han: I know.

And on a brighter note, I really like the intro of Wall-E. I'm not a fan of Hello Dolly but that song gives the movie a nice upbeat introduction. And then, er wait. That movie opens with the desolate trash covered wasteland that was once our beloved planet. Oh well, Wall-E is playing Minecraft. That's pretty encouraging. And he uses a hubcap as a hat to dance along with the pretty people on the TV. How can that not bring a smile to your face.

Oh, and since people have started throwing in videogame examples I think I'll throw in one of my fav's.

"The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence. I am SHODAN."

[evilsoup]

The final scene of the final episode of Blake's 7.

The look of Avon's face when he thinks that Blake has betrayed them.

"Is it true?"
"Avon, it's me, Blake!"
"Stand still! ...Have you betrayed us..? Have you betrayed me?"

Spock/Kirk never had anything on Blake/Avon, it's written all over their faces! And then Avon kills Blake - the man he loves, the man whose leadership and friendship turned him from a self-serving cynic to an idealistic freedom fighter - over a misunderstanding.

And then the whole crew is killed: not by Travis or Servalan or any of her bizarre secret weapons - but by a small team of masked, faceless soldiers, mirroring the killing of the Earth resistance cell in the very first episode. And then Avon realises his mistake, that Blake was playing his usual stupid games, that he hadn't betrayed them. Surrounded by Federation soldiers, he stands over Blake's body, raises his gun, smiles (he was always complaining that Blake would get them killed, and he was right!) - and then it cuts to the credits with the sounds of guns firing.

Oh, and consummate coward Vila dies with a gun in his hand.

[Skylon]

The scene that sold me on Firefly. After being somewhat entertained by "Train Job" on its first airing and all its wacky "cowboys in space!" vibes, I was ready to write the show off as "meh" until the following exchange:



Finally the hero does what any thinking person should do when the bad guy says "I will hunt you down! You'll never be safe from me!"

[NeoGoomba]

When you have a guy that hates you killing himself to help you, and you can sell that without resorting to explicit acknowledgement of it, that's good drama.

Mace is my favourite.

Wow, I had totally forgotten Captain America's freezing to death bit. Another good Boyle/Murphy combo. I had only caught Sunshine when it was released on DVD. Seeing it on a digital screen in a theater must have been pretty damn sweet.

[B5B7]

Some great scenes from two of my favourite shows have been brought up (see my username).
Bladerunner has many memorable scenes - the already mentioned Roy Batty death scene, when Roy finds Pris's body, visuals of the Tyrell corporation building, when Rachel asks Deckard if the test is to see if she is a lesbian, etc.
Planet of the Apes where Taylor sees the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty.
"The last starfighter is ... dead" dialogue from that movie.

[Darmalus]

Most of my favorite scenes have already been covered, but I'm rather fond of the end of Moon. I guess it's actually several scenes, but from when he put the dying clone back into the crashed rover to when the jamming tower went down hit me harder than any movie in recent memory.

[TOSDOC]

Ok, you all have named a lot that's very good (especially Roy Batty and ST: II when Enterprise is charging for the Mutara Nebula with Horner's score soaring), so I'm going to turn back the clock for some more good dialogue:

Them! When they're planning the nest's eradication in New Mexico:
"How can you be sure you got them all?"
"We go into the nest and find out."

The Day The Earth Stood Still: "I'm impatient with stupidity."

Quatermass and the Pit: Quatermass explaining to the British Defense Minister how we owe humanity's existence and civilization to the intervention of Martian insects.

X: The Unknown. "It came in through the grill."
"When I can make that radio sound right without putting that [isotope] back in the box, that'll be a good trick."

DW and the Ark in Space: The whole "Humanity ready to ride out Eternity" speech by the Doctor.

And of course Farscape: The Maltese Crichton final scene, where no words are needed for the "compatibility kiss", only great music and acting.

[Highlord Laan]

Londo Mollari's telling of the Earth-Minbari war to the three young Centauri during In the Beginning, specifically this scene.
Following that is another B5 scene, where Sheridan tells the Vorlon and Shadows the, and I quote, "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!"

[LadyTevar]

"Silent Running": The hero running through the soon-to-be destroyed bioship, and remembering all the things he (and earth) had lost.

[NecronLord]

"Stop! No further! I deny you, I give you up!"

The end of Forbidden Planet.

[ChosenOne54]

And, of course, nuWho's 'Bad Wolf'. 'No.' 'EXPLAIN YOURSELF!' 'I said No.' 'What IS THE MEANING OF THIS NEGATIVE?' 'It means no.' 'BUT SHE WILL BE DESTROYED!' 'No. Cause this is what I'm going to do. I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of a Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then, just to finish you off, I'm gonna wash every stinking Dalek out of the sky!'
'BUT YOU HAVE NO WEAPONS, NO DEFENSES, NO PLAN!' 'Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death. Rose?-I'm coming to get you.'

I agree wholeheartedly, their discovery was one of the biggest 'oh shit!' moments I've seen in a television program.

Other moments include the scene where Neo vanquishes Smith in the first Matrix, the ending scene of Waters of Mars, and the destruction of the Death Star in IV.

[Deathstalker]

Most things have been mentioned, but the Deathstalker thinks that Optimus Prime's arrival in the cartoon Transformers movie is one of the best scenes in sci-fi. He steps of the ship, see Autobot city in ruins and dead Autobots about and proceeds to kick Decepticon ass BY RUNNING THEM OVER and then transforms and starts gunning them down. Prime had to die, because he couldn't top that performance!

[Temujin]

The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 – Klaatu gives the climactic statement of his mission.