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Science Fiction by Letter: S

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This is the series that started as a show following the voyages of the starship Enterprise, and grew into one of the most well-known sci fi properties in the world.
Star Trek
This franchise once held the record for money at the box office. The first movie in this franchise introduced us to Darth Vader and "the force."
Star Wars
In this movie, Jeff Bridges was an alien who came to earth and took the form of Karen Allen's husband.
Starman
This is the final frontier, according to the opening to the show in question one.
Space
This 1975 movie (and 1972 novel) are about a woman who starts to suspect the submissive wives in her new neighborhood are robots built by their husbands.
Stepford Wives
*Spoiler* It's people. They are eating people.
Soylent Green
The new improved name of the Sci Fi Channel.
Syfy
The name Chris Pratt's character wants to be called in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Star Lord
This George Clooney film is about a man who finds his dead wife (or something that looks just like her) in a faraway space station in orbit around a strange planet.
Solaris
He is the most famous Vulcan.
Spock
This Heinlein novel is about a man who was born on Mars to the first team of explorers who never made it back, and his experience once he is brought back to Earth as an adult.
Stranger in a Strange Land
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This Heinlein novel about a warlike, fascist Earth sending its young soldiers to fight aliens far, far away was made into a feature film with the same name.
Starship Troopers
This is the name of the ship in Aliens that takes the space marines to check on the colony on LV-426. It has a cameo in Blade Runner 2049.
Sulaco
This eighties sci-fi comedy starring Ally Sheedy is about a robot who developes feelings.
Short Circuit
This eighties Mel Brooks space comedy is probably the most famous spoof of that other big space adventure. (No, not Hardware Wars.)
Spaceballs
This M. Night Shyamalan movie starring Mel Gibson and Joaquine Pheonix was about crop circle making aliens invading Earth.
Signs
The first name of John Connor's mother in the Terminator series.
Sarah
In the Terminator television series, what is the first name of the actress who played Cameron, the terminator sent back as John's bodyguard?
Summer
In Firefly, what was the name of the ship the main characters call home?
Serenity
This 1981 Cronenberg film is about people with weaponized telekinetic powers. It is most famous for being the film from the exploding head gif.
Scanners
This 1994 film starring Kurt Russell and James Spader followed humans who uncovered an ancient method of transportation between two worlds in ancient Egypt. The film spawned a television series by the same name.
Stargate
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Level 76
Feb 21, 2020
I'm guessing in the Sci Fi channel question "improved" is sarcastic? I hope so.

Also, might wanna mention the Clooney movie is actually a remake of a much more renowned russian film of the same name, itself an adapation of a novel.

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Level 72
Feb 21, 2020
Haha. You got me. Now it just looks like the siffy channel. Yeah, I thought about it. I actually was originally going to make a question about the Russian original. I still might find a way to work it in. Thanks for playing my quizzes. I hope you are enjoying them.