this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
175 points (96.3% liked)

Science Fiction

13639 readers
58 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

  1. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  2. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
  5. Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
175
Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race? (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
194 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe.

I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting.

Do you have any recommendations?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Tuxman@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stargate SG-1 has a VERY interesting premise. Humans start from 0 and we see them gradually learning new technology and making alliances (Plus, the original cast is just stellar)

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in the middle of a 5th (or so) rewatch!

[–] Tuxman@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Richard Dean Anderson is a national treasure! :D

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely! While I still enjoyed the Ori saga, it definitely wasn't the same without O'Neill.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think he’s Canadian.

Edit: I’m wrong. Now why did I think that?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SG-1 was largely filmed in Canada. It's why a lot of planets look like wilderness near Vancouver. (And quarries, in classic Doctor Who fashion.)

In the back half of the series you can really hear it creeping into RDA's accent.

[–] atmofunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He filmed Macgyver there before Stargate too so the dude had TONS of time in van