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snarkysparky:
Mega Kudos to The Expanse for taking the pains to do gravity and acceleration well.  At least in the first three seasons.  Later in the series people just walked about the ship while under acceleration.  New writers i guess.

As for Doctor who to me is seems they just quit trying to write episodes.  It became a stream of crap thrown together just to get an episode out.
The good Dr Who

The Impossible Planet,  The Satan Pit,  Silence in the Library ,  The Stone Angels...   That time period.

Firefly was a good show but they made no attempt to get spaceflight correct.

coppice:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 17, 2023, 06:23:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: BrianHG on March 17, 2023, 06:12:43 pm ---I'll also have to take a look at Blake's 7.

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Plot line: a group of random political prisoners steal the most powerful fighter spaceship in the galaxy. Later they find an omniscient computer. Each episode they still manage to get themselves into scrapes with vastly inferior opposition forces.

The final series ending was memorably good, though.

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That doesn't really give the flavour of Blake's 7. It was a space series with a super low budget. So low, they didn't even try to disguise how crudely everything was done. They chose some of the worst actors in the world. People even started joke charity funds to send the actors to drama school. The result was something you either find amusingly cheesy or just plain annoying.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on March 27, 2023, 01:11:11 pm ---If you want really really bad science, to the point where it's so ridiculous it's funny, watch Moonfall.

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Ah, what it is like to be young, and not to remember 1950/60s movies[1], nor TV programmes like Space 1999.

[1] exceptions: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, 2001

tszaboo:

--- Quote from: snarkysparky on March 27, 2023, 01:46:43 pm ---Mega Kudos to The Expanse for taking the pains to do gravity and acceleration well.  At least in the first three seasons.  Later in the series people just walked about the ship while under acceleration.  New writers i guess.

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Let's geek out a bit.
You could walk on the ships which were burning pro or retrograde. The ship was built like a office tower, the decks were vertical to the Epstein drive. They kept a comfortable 1/3 G on most ships. Also note the magnetic boots they were often times wearing. I think they even mentioned that Earth ships were faster because the crew could handle more Gs than the Belter or MCRN ships.
They were strapped into the seats when they were doing course corrections, so basically when the RCS thrusters would be used, not the main drive.


--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 27, 2023, 02:27:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on March 27, 2023, 01:11:11 pm ---If you want really really bad science, to the point where it's so ridiculous it's funny, watch Moonfall.

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Ah, what it is like to be young, and not to remember 1950/60s movies[1], nor TV programmes like Space 1999.

[1] exceptions: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, 2001

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Well OP was mainly asking about recent sci-fi, right? Otherwise let's mention James Bond Moonraker.

TimFox:
An important detail:  the movie Moonraker bore no resemblance to the original Fleming novel.
From Wikipedia's plot summary of the novel: 
"In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown to Bond, Drax is German, an ex-Nazi now working for the Soviets; his plan is to build the rocket, arm it with a nuclear warhead, and fire it at London. Uniquely for a Bond novel, Moonraker is set entirely in Britain, which raised comments from some readers, complaining about the lack of exotic locations."

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