What's the most flawed science SciFi TV show or movie? [View all]

Name a science fiction TV show or movie that had major scientific flaws. But first there are some rules:

1. Cannot be a complete fantasy story. No Star Wars for example. Nothing where the universe is completely made up.
2. The story has to have some grounding in reality. Star Trek would be an example of a story that is based on some reality with an extension into the future.

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What's the most flawed science SciFi TV show or movie? [View all]	Yavin4	Feb 23	OP
Land of the Lost	underpants	Feb 23	#1
OMG!	Yavin4	Feb 23	#2
🏹	underpants	Feb 23	#4
The "Planet of the Apes" series	RainCaster	Feb 23	#3
Lost in Space.	Jeebo	Feb 23	#5
It started off serious	Miguelito Loveless	Feb 23	#10
Some, (I said "some" Consider.." Plan from Outer Space." to be the worst movie ever made..and...	Stuart G	Feb 24	#24
My Favorite Martian. n/t	Mr.Bill	Feb 23	#6
Six Million Dollar Man	Miguelito Loveless	Feb 23	#7
The Six Million Dollar Man started off okay.	Dave Starsky	Feb 24	#35
True,	Miguelito Loveless	Feb 24	#37
Ah, yes. The magic of mini-nuclear power.	Dave Starsky	Feb 25	#50
Gravity	cos dem	Feb 23	#8
Yes, "Gravity" was painful to watch.	hunter	Feb 24	#30
star lost. on my fave awful list	AllaN01Bear	Feb 23	#9
Oh, Jeebus, MagiCam effects	Miguelito Loveless	Feb 23	#13
The THUNDERBIRDS	LakeArenal	Feb 23	#11
The Core	Salviati	Feb 23	#12
That movie is totally batshit bonkers, but I love it.	Dave Starsky	Feb 24	#27
I'll defer to Neil Degrasse Tyson on that subject.	Buckeye_Democrat	Feb 24	#14
I kept hearing how Interstellar was so true to science.	Dave Starsky	Feb 24	#28
I was so disappointed in much of the so-called science...	Buckeye_Democrat	Feb 24	#34
I have to turn off my credibility meter when watching almost anything nowadays.	Boxerfan	Feb 24	#15
Fireball XL5	rsdsharp	Feb 24	#16
Let me add Armageddon	Yavin4	Feb 24	#17
Space: 1999	First Speaker	Feb 24	#18
Even as an idiotic little kid...	Dave Starsky	Feb 24	#36
I've always found it hard to believe that a nuclear weapon works well in space.....	lastlib	Feb 25	#51
Wow. I never thought of it that way.	Dave Starsky	Feb 25	#55
Consider that every star is an ongoing fusion reaction.	lastlib	Feb 25	#56
Exactly.	Dave Starsky	Feb 25	#58
Capricorn 1.	Archae	Feb 24	#19
Too many, but 'The Expanse' has excellent space and gravity physics and is quite addicting	Shanti Shanti Shanti	Feb 24	#20
Prometheus	Ron Obvious	Feb 24	#21
The part in that movie that bugged me...	canuckledragger	Feb 25	#59
Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea.	lastlib	Feb 24	#22
And I won't even start on "Zardoz"--	lastlib	Feb 24	#23
My cat Sporkweasel's secret name is Zardoz,	Throckmorton	Feb 24	#25
Well, okay, if it's for a cat......	lastlib	Feb 24	#26
Zardoz is wonderful.	hunter	Feb 24	#31
I'm with you on the last part!	lastlib	Feb 24	#32
Any time travel story.	Towlie	Feb 24	#29
Try the Isaac Asimov-written animated movie, "Light Years."	Archae	Feb 24	#33
The signals from the Perseverance rover blew my mind. I kept thinking about how	Politicub	Feb 24	#45
What was that space exploration series, with Lorne Green as "Adama"?	Paladin	Feb 24	#38
Got it! "Battlestar Galactica" !!!	Paladin	Feb 24	#43
And WHO would name anybody (besides a coffe shop) "Starbuck"??	lastlib	Feb 25	#52
Yeah, once Melville used it in "Moby Dick," it was all downhill. (nt)	Paladin	Feb 25	#53
All of them.	Goodheart	Feb 24	#39
Cops use to say that "Barney Miller" was the most realistic cop show on TV. n/t	Yavin4	Feb 24	#41
Quantum Leap?	NightWatcher	Feb 24	#40
Red Planet.	sarge43	Feb 24	#42
I'm enjoying this thread. I'm not smart enough to know the most.	Politicub	Feb 24	#44
Me too and same here.	mountain grammy	Feb 25	#57
I dream of Jeannie	Demovictory9	Feb 24	#46
Godzilla movies with respect to his weight on land... he should sink into the concrete	Demovictory9	Feb 24	#47
Mortal engines... weight of the cities moving on wheels... seemed impossible.	Demovictory9	Feb 24	#48
Fantastic Voyage. A miniature spaceship with people injected into another human.	alphafemale	Feb 24	#49
Outlander! Hello! Travelling through time by touching a stone!	lindysalsagal	Feb 25	#54