Your top 3 Sci-Fi Moments

[haohmaru]

Just a thread to name your top three "Holy shit, that's fucking awesome" moments from any Science Fiction Film, Television show, etc...

My personal top 3:

3.) Return of the Jedi where Luke is trying not to fight Darth Vader and his father starts talking about his sister and that if Luke will not join the darkside then perhaps she will. Luke then screams and lets anger rule him for a few moments and beats on Darth Vader.

2.) Blade Runner, where the final android, "Roy", is on the rooftop along with Deckard after being hunted by him for a good part of the movie and you're expecting things to turn for the worse for the Blade Runner. "Roy" gives his famous "tears in rain" speech and proves that, in death, we have a greater appreciation for life. Little known factoid: Rutger Hauer's speech was improvised and spontaneous. It wasn't scripted.

1.) My personal favorite: Battlestar Galactica Exodus Part II where Admiral Adama's ship is under brutal assault by four cylon baseships. He turns to face his crew and tells them it's been an honor to serve with them and the camera pans out to show the Galactica as it's getting pummeled. Suddenly a shot enters the screen and so does the Pegasus, captained by Adama's son who has blatantly disregarded his father's orders and sacrificed the Pegasus to save the Galactica. Best ever, IMHO - shivers down the spine.

[Advocate]

3. Q introduces the Borg.
2. Spock dies.
1. "I am your father."

[YellerDog]

3. "LET'S ROCK!!!" --Vasquez
2. "You have twenty seconds to comply." --ED-209
1. "KHAAAAAAAN!" --Kirk

[Cowutopia]

I knew it was improvised..but apparently...

Apparently, only some parts of this speech were improvised, not the whole thing. Rutger Hauer has this to say about the tears in rain speech on his official site: (italics mine)

Originally it was a bit longer, like a half-page of dialogue. So I said to Ridley the night before we shot it, 'This is way too long. If the batteries go, the guy goes. He has not time to say good-bye, except maybe to briefly talk about things he's seen' Life is short - boom! I truly felt that the ending of this picture should be done very quickly, I mean, we'd already seen this opera of dying replicants; I didn't think the audience would stand another protracted death scene. So I said to Ridley, 'Let's do it very fast, and do it as simply and profoundly as possible. But also, let Batty be a wiseguy for a second'. Ridley said, 'Yes, I like it'. So when we filmed that speech, I cut a little bit out of the opening and then improvised these closing lines, 'All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die'.

But you know, everyone always writes about me and that speech, and ignores the screenwriter. I thought David Peoples, the man who wrote that version of Batty's soliloquy, really did a beautiful job. I mean, I loved those images he came up with -'c-beams glittering near the Tannhauser gate, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion'. I thought they were really interesting, even if you didn't understand them. The whole idea there, is that once he stops talking, the dove flies. You never really see the moment of Batty's death, the dove says it for him.

[Revoltor]

1. Cold and near-death E.T. in a river bank.
2. Roddy Piper donning the Sunglasses for the first time in They Live
3. All 90 minutes of Total Recall

Bonus: Defibrillator scene in The Thing.

[Dolemite]

3. Q introduces the Borg.
2. Spock dies.
1. "I am your father."

These are all really good.

3. "LET'S ROCK!!!" --Vasquez
1. "KHAAAAAAAN!" --Kirk

So are these.

Actually, almost any part of Aliens could be mentioned here. Back in the day I saw that movie with the craziest audience ever and they pratically tore the theater apart every time something cool happened.

[Dolemite]

1. Cold and near-death E.T. in a river bank.

Holy fuck, was that part horrifying when I first saw it as a kid. Loveable little E.T. pratically dead- that was heartbreaking.

Bonus: Defibrillator scene in The Thing.

That, and the blood test scene when Palmer tested positive.

[Advocate]

Yeah the Thing is a damn good choice.

[epmode]

1.) My personal favorite: Battlestar Galactica Exodus Part II where Admiral Adama's ship is under brutal assault by four cylon baseships. He turns to face his crew and tells them it's been an honor to serve with them and the camera pans out to show the Galactica as it's getting pummeled. Suddenly a shot enters the screen and so does the Pegasus, captained by Adama's son who has blatantly disregarded his father's orders and sacrificed the Pegasus to save the Galactica. Best ever, IMHO - shivers down the spine.

I can't decide between that and the Galactica freefall from the same episode. Christ, what a great episode.

[Error]

3: Wrath of Khan - Really the entire last act, but specifically while battling in the nebula, Enterprise rises from the mist to demolish Reliant. Just an awesome scene.
9:20 in.



2: A New Hope: Tacky as it may be, the trench run on the Death Star. Luke is done for, Vader is on his ass, about to toast him, and then BAM, Han comes back and sends Vader spinning into the distance.

Not the actual scene but it gets my point accross.



1: Yesterdays Enterprise: After deciding that Enterprise C really needs to go back to it's own timeline, Picard orders Enterprise D to stand its ground and fight to the death against attacking Klingon cruisers.