NIC handle HEH
Strike this whole paragraph.
"Equally important is Aliens. While the movie lacks other alien civilizations and easy faster than light speed, it single handedly defined human culture, technology, military, and visual style for Standard Sci Fi Settings for decades to come. Babylon 5, Star Craft, Free Space, Halo, and Mass Effect are more or less directly based on this movie.?
"more or less directly" that's classic weasel-words.
I would not agree that B5 is directly based off Aliens. I'd say B5 is a version of The Lord of the Rings in Space. Starting with the very first words of the first episode, "It was the Third Age of Mankind" and continuing through the technomage Elric, who quotes Gandalf word for word at one point.
I think JMS has acknowledged the parallels to Lot R. Aliens, not so much.
"Equally important is Aliens. While the movie lacks other alien civilizations and easy faster than light speed, it single handedly defined human culture, technology, military, and visual style for Standard Sci Fi Settings for decades to come. Babylon 5, Star Craft, Free Space, Halo, and Mass Effect are more or less directly based on this movie.?
Live Action TV/Star Trek
"Star Trek is one of the main sources of this setting and has used the basic plot for both The Next Generation with The Borg as The Virus and Deep Space Nine where they fought against the Dominion, not to mention countless one-off episodes that have used this plot to preach An Aesop of cooperation."
"The basic plot???"? What basic plot? A trope is not a plot.
Edited by hhardy