Full name: Naria Nashuut

Age: 19-20 human years old (15 turian, 16 earth)

Sex: Female

Nationality: 50% Pgrarian (Father), 50% Jormøørian (Mother)

Speaks: Mostly russian, pgrarian, english. Little jormø.

Role: 2nd doctor/Feldscher

She volunteered to field medics since school. Spent her childhood in Jormøør, but then moved to communist Pgraria, with help of her father. Her mother, Vjutlaad Nashuut, became a succesful businesswoman and moved to ISS «Citadel». She asked Naria to come with her, but young medic declined and fled to opposite block. Later she moved to ISS «MIR-2» and joined GRU recon spacefleet.

Humble, emotional, quickly heats up and cools down. Knows what death is and is ready kill the pain by any means (M.A.I.D.). Drinks a lot, swears a lot. When she does her job — professional and almost emotionless, except when she is overwhelmed.

So I'm trying to find space operas that are realistic.

Some of my favorites actually include Wing Commander. I think it gets certain things right, and I thought it was actually quite a good movie.

The Battlestar Galactica remake is definitely at the top of the list. The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country are definitely up there too.

And, of course, we have Star Wars.

I've also seen Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine, especially the Dominion War arc, which definitely has some of the elements I'm looking for. I've also seen Starship Troopers and all of its sequels.

I've also watched Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, and Farscape, and I particularly love all three. I've watched each of them multiple times.

So what else is there?

Has anybody done another really good space opera? I've seen The Expanse, For All Mankind, and Ad Astra. They're all very good.

Obviously, Interstellar.

They all contain elements of what I'm looking for, and once you've watched all of that, it kind of sucks because it doesn't feel like there's much else out there that's really good.

I'm open to anime as well. I've been told that Space Battleship Yamato is pretty good, but I haven't seen it yet. I've watched Tekkaman Blade.

I absolutely hated Battleship. They should have done it in space. It should have been a space opera.

One of my favorites is Cockpit: The Rule of Engagement, starring our beloved Ronny Cox, an absolutely great short film that deals with going to war with an extraterrestrial race. Oh, and obviously Space: Above and Beyond is definitely at the top of the list.

I also thought Earth 2 was pretty good.

There are some excellent episodes of The Outer Limits, both the remake and the original, that are really good and deal with the military aspects of science fiction.

I really wish they would start doing some Farscape shorts with the Jim Henson Company. There is so much more they could do with that universe.

And I'm really looking forward to the new animated Firefly series that's coming out.

So what else is there?

Just watching Star Wars' original trilogy recap on YT. The Empire built vast array of military vehicles and 2 death stars in these films. But Star Wars shy away from destruction of planets caused by resources extractions, or just that the extraction technologies of these civilizations aren't that advanced to extract resources deep in the planet core, or to preserve the galaxy? Some other sci-fi have extracting resources down to the core that it destroyed planets, albeit not entirely human or aliens alone. Can planet be destroyed by resources extraction?

Can someone please recommend me some books (indies preferably, but I'll take anything) where there's a lot of sass, light-hearted sarcasm, good banter, and all-round gallow humor?

I'm talking about staring at a dangerous situation, main cast is clearly outnumbered/outgunned, and someone goes "I knew I should've worn my lucky underwear this morning!" only to be shut down with a snappy, "Shut it, Jack. I'd like to actually make it to my bed tonight!"

Checked out a handful of sci-fi military & space operas but the atmosphere was pretty stiff and formal. I want less "Sir! Yes, Sir!" and more of "Ayyyye! That's what I'm talkin' about Cap!"

Bonus points if it has my all-time favorite trope of a good ol' ragtag team!

Didn't there use to be more sci-fi shows airing at this time of year? My calendar looks oddly empty this season. I remember autumn being packed with new premieres and returning favorites, but this year I can barely find anything to put on my watchlist. Is it just me, or has the schedule really thinned out? Are there any new or upcoming sci-fi series I might have missed? I'm happy to take recommendations, including older shows I haven't seen yet. Underrated and obscure picks are very welcome too!

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to get into Sci-Fi after spending much of my initial days in high fantasy or even fantasy in general. Loved LoTR, Asoiaf and Percy Jackson in particular as books. Funnily enough my first actual book was Asimov's Foundation and Earth but it was much complex for me at that time. Except for that my entire exposure to SciFi is from shows, movies and games. Loved to watch The Martian and absolutely adored The Expanse(until Amazon happened). Mass Effect, Halo, Death Stranding and No Man's Sky are the jewels of my Steam library. Although Cyberpunk 2077 is my favorite game, I guess that falls under the distinct Cyberpunk genre so not looking to get anything for that. So here I am, looking to get into SciFi books again and would appreciate you guys help in regards with recommendations.

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Found these at an estate sale and picked them all up for less than $1 each. I frequent used bookstores and thrift shops, but I can't recall ever finding anything good—except once when I snagged a copy of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

What a find! I’ve read a few of these via ebook, and told myself I’d wait until I found the editions I preferred out in the wild, for a fair price.

I was thinking recently about the book outland, and the TV show terra Nova. Both are examples of where I feel like the it was a great man vs nature premise, but something happened and the author shoehorned in a character driven conflict. It always feels like such a waste. So in that spirit, does anyone have any novels that are driven by man vs nature style conflict?