October 12, 2007     

The Top 9 Worst
Moments in Sci-Fi History

9> The day Worf started dating Yoko Ono and broke up the
Enterprise bridge crew.

8> Zephram Cochran killed in warp-drive implosion! United Earth
vows to end all space exploration forever!

7> Jabba the Hutt on the Atkins Diet no longer the menacing blob
he once was.

6> Paul Atreides’ naughty cousin Calvin is caught peeing in the
Arrakeen municipal water supply.

5> Stardate 7235: Slave women of Orion rebel; secretly plan to
throttle the next arrogant starship captain to hit on one of
them.

4> Captain Adama, leading his convoy of ships to Earth, refuses
to ask for directions and winds up right back where he
started.

3> Starship Enterprise, renamed to Starship Hertz, can no longer
go where no one has gone before because it has to be back in
three days.

2> Lazarus Long dies in freak dimension-travel accident. Body
parts scattered across multiple dimensions!

and the Number 1 Worst Moment in Sci-Fi History…

1> Stardate 2273.5: NASA’s Voyager VI reaches the edge of the
galaxy and returns despondently to Earth, having discovered
only a Starbucks franchise.

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Credits:

Selected from 24 submissions from 8 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Doug Crews, Oceanside, CA — 1
Tom Rodman, Durham, NC — 2, 8
Guy Reeves, Houston, TX — 3, 4, 7 (Hat trick!)
Larry Hollister, Concord, CA — 5, 6
Slick Sharkey, Miami, FL — 9
Dave Oberhart, Durham, NC — SF List Moderator