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Science fiction is one of the hardest nut in the world of television to crack. For every Battlestar Galactica there is a lamentable reboot of V. For lost or there is a FlashForward a hero, or other would-be epic that is canceled after one season and disappears gradually to its very foundation.
The X Files was followed by a slew of imitators, but we had to wait before the Fringe JJ Abrams has taken a similar premise and spun into something with an identity all its own.
It is notable that the only Star Trek Trekkies suites dealing with love-cum-religious-cum-obsession is the next generation, who stuck closest to the creative vision of Gene Roddenberry.
Can you imagine if someone could bottle the secret of making good Sci-Fi TV, that person would be Steven Spielberg. His record in widescreen sci-fi is dazzling: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, cold and hypnotic techno-fable Pinocchio AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report and quite brilliant, the best film adaptation of a Philip K . Dick story from Blade Runner.


