What is your favorite Science Fiction or Space TV show , movie or you can include both in your post.

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[displacedvermoter]

1. Star Trek (TV)

War of the Worlds (Movie, with Gene Barry)

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4. Thank you very much displacedvermotor.

[kimbutgar]

2. Twilight Zone

Whenever i channel surfing and its on I end up watching it!

And my favorite movie is They Live because it is so much more relevant today.

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5. Thank you very much kimbutgar. for your selections.

[ailsagirl]

55. Me too!!

Did you know that "The Twilight Zone" was actually cancelled after five seasons by "network executives?" At least they didn't do it right away.

Those shows were brilliant and incredibly imaginative and still resonate today.

[kimbutgar]

57. Yes everytime I see it I think it's still relevant today !

Rod Sterling was ahead of his time.

[thucythucy]

3. Red Dwarf for TV.

For movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still--original, not the remake.

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8. Thank you thucythucy.

[rurallib]

6. original Twilight Zone by far

for me nothing else has ever come close.

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9. Agree. It was brilliant.

[Basso8vb]

7. The Battlestar Galactica reboot from the early 2000s.

I also loved Star Trek Voyager.

Favorite sci-fi movie: The Empire Strikes Back.

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10. Thank you, Basso8vb. Great choices.

[CrispyQ]

14. I liked Voyager, too.

Kate Mulgrew was an excellent choice for captain. The whole premise was great.

[red dog 1]

11. The Twilight Zone

(The original one)

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13. I agree. red dog 1

[CrispyQ]

12. Firefly the series, hands down.

Love that show!! The movie—not so good.

I do love the memories of the thrill of the original Star Trek, though.

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16. Thank you CrispyQ, Why did they take the original off of TV? And then make a movie?

[Shermann]

102. Firefly was a better TV series than it was a movie

The movie was a 120-minute chase scene. The quirkiness of the characters didn't have time to come through and the humor ended up being a bit flat.

[CrispyQ]

104. I watched the movie once. The TV series, at least three times.

Every episode was good. Every single one.

[Eugene]

15. TV: Star Trek (original series)

Movie: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope from 1977, when it was just "Star Wars."

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17. Thank you very much Eugene.

[bullimiami]

18. Dr Who. The Thunderbirds is pretty fab.

Of course Lost in Soace.

The Invaders ( a Quinn Martin production) was great.

I better stop. There’s a million of them.

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20. Thank you very much bullimiami for sharing.

[exboyfil]

19. Star Trek: TNG

After that Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5.
Bladerunner for movie with honorable mention to The Thing.

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21. Thank you very much exboyfil Great choices to share with us.

[Walleye]

22. "Forbidden Planet" which I saw in the theater , as a child

Classic movie, Leslie, Nielsen, Walter Pigeon, Anne Francis, Great color, special effects and story. And for TV I like anything on mystery science theater 3000.

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39. Thank you very much Walleye

[Emile]

23. The Wizard of Oz and ET

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40. Thank you very much Emile

[doc03]

24. The orginal Star Trek.series. nt

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41. Thank you very much doc03

[SteveMarrs]

25. Babylon 5 and

Farscape for tv. V for vendetta, matrix and children of men for movies

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42. Thank you very much SteveMarrs

[LetMyPeopleVote]

94. Welcome to DU

[TomSlick]

107. Welcome to DU!

[Probatim]

26. The Expanse - hands down.

I loved the main cast, the plot, and the intrigue.

I thought the first two episodes were ok then the third episode dropped and I was hooked. The science, for the most part, was plausible and was much appreciated by actual engineers and scientists.

Five seasons are available on Amazon - these don't cover the nine books in the series but do them a sufficient honor.

Even my wife liked it and she is not a sci-fi fan.

[nocoincidences]

29. That show was perfect.

It is one I will re-visit over and over.

Beltalowda!!

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44. Probatim, That sounds very interesting , Thank you for sharing.

[Eko]

53. Totally agree.

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89. Thank you very much Probatim.

[wryter2000]

27. Original Star Trek

Also Second Generation

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45. Thank you very much wryter2000 for your choices.

[Stardust Mirror]

28. Science fiction? Fox News!

oh wait that's not my favorite. nevermind.

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46. Oh you. HAHAHAHAHAHA But it is true.

[Demovictory9]

30. Star Trek Next Gen

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47. Thank you Demovictory9

[TommieMommy]

31. Guardians of the Galaxy 👍😁💙

TV shows are Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits

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48. Thank you very much TommieMommy for your choices. Great ones.

[FalloutShelter]

32. Blade Runner!

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49. Excellent choice. thank you FalloutShelter.

[Thunderbeast]

33. AVENUE FIVE on HBO

Funny as hell. Hugh Laurie is a genius in this role.

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50. Thank you very much Thunderbeast.

[LogDog75]

34. Eureka and The Martian

Favorite TV scifi is Eureka that follows former U.S. Marshall Jack Carter who become the sheriff of Eureka, the smartest little town in America. Eureka was conceived of by Einstein after WWII as a place where the world's greatest brains could develop futuristic inventions for the government. Carter has an average intelligence and is probably the least intelligent person in Eureka but somehow ends up saving the day when the geniuses' inventions and ideas go wrong. This program is both comedy and drama and entertaining. I've been re-watching it Amazon.

Favorite movie is The Martian. An astronaut. Mark Watney, becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue. The movie blends the drama of survival with subdue humor to keep the story moving forward. Good performance from Matt Damon and others. Specially good performance from MacKenzie Davis as the NASA operator who discovered Watney is alive. Her performance is underrated but you can see her character grow from a recent college graduate working the night shift to a member of the team affecting his rescue.

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51. Thank you LogDog75 I have watched Eureka about 4 times . Haven't seen the Martian.

[303squadron]

35. Movie and TV episode

Forbidden Planet is my favorite movie Sci Fi and deserves to be placed among the great movies of all time.

The specific TV sci fi episode that is my favorite (I even wrote a song inspired by it) is ST TOS : The City On The Edge of Forever

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52. Thank you 303squadron. for sharing.

[Niagara]

36. I never realized it, but I have a colossal amount of Sci Fi television and movies that I enjoy

Lost with Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Day Kim, Evangeline Lilly and so many more actors

Defiance with Grant Bowler, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene

Fear the Walking Dead with Ruben Blades, Kim Dickens Frank Dillane, Danay Garcia

Movies:

I like the Planet of the Apes Trilogies 1968 to 1973. Not a big fan of the newer ones.

Back to the Future Trilogies

I Am Legend

A Quiet Place 1 and 2

10 Cloverfield Lane

The Happening



The Man Who Fell to Earth

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62. Wow do you have a collection. Thank you very much for sharing with us , Niagara.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

37. 12 Monkeys, the movie.

It is simply the most purely science-fictional movie (or tv show) I have ever seen.

Most of the shows or movies mentioned so far are simply versions of things like "Wagon Train". 12 Monkeys takes the s-f premise and stays with it.

I think the problem with most shows and movies is that the screen writers have never read any actual science fiction. They've been watching tv and movies their whole lives, and just don't get how much real s-f is missing from them.

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64. Thank you very much PoindexterOglethorpe. for sharing with us.

[Different Drummer]

38. The Twilight Zone.

So many good episodes!

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65. I agree with you Different Drummer. A classic.

[Luciferous]

43. The Twilight Zone. I've actually

rewatched a lot of them with my teenager and she enjoys them as well.

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66. Thank you very much, Luciferous. It is very much a classic.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. Star Trek: The Next Generation

And Babylon 5.

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71. Thank you ProfessorGAC. Great choices.

[Shamus1075]

56. GalaxyQuest

This movie was a takeoff of just about every science fiction TV show or movie but most notably Star Trek. With the death of
Alan Rickman there will never be a sequel.

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67. Thank you Shamus1075. RIP Alan Rickman. And welcome to DU

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93. Welcome to DU

[TomSlick]

108. Welcome to DU!

[electric_blue68]

58. SF my favorite genre! (then political dramas, some law [the Good Wife, the Good Fight, L&O], certain comedies)...

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I enjoy all the Treks old & Nu. Original ST viewer back in the day.
TV Favorites: Enterprise, Voyager, DS9. SNW. Discovery.

To my surprise, and I wasn't looking: I watched 2 series that I found even better than Trek.

In real time back then Person of Interest. It's a mix of crime solving, and SF that gets more, and more ramped up!

A reclusive billionaire, computer genius Harold Finch receives a social security number, and has to find out whether that person is a criminal, or victim. He has a sort of gun for hire John Reese (retired AF, and ?CIA), also acts as investigator in the field, that also a protector for him, and the victim if determined. Harold goes out to do electronic, and computer stuff in their efforts. The SS# is generated by a machine that he invented code wise, with some electrical & electronics skills, along with his engineer partner Nathan.

He, Harold (the computer genius], and John also get entwined with 2 NYPD Dectives; Joss Carter, and Lionel Fusco.Two other important women Root/Ms Groves, and Samin, characters will emerge as part of this Team Machine. Series mostly takes place in NYC: Manhattan & Queens in particular.

This (The) Macine becomes more, and more prominent near the end of season 1.
Then in S2 "something wicked comes this way" and it isn't just a human.
4 full, and 1 last half season.
..............................
Fringe. I watched this for 1 1/2 seasons. I think it got moved to cable, or I had trouble w a roommate who didn't want to watch it anymore.

At some point ?15 years later I remembered it, or saw a mention about it. Now I had a tablet, and then found it on Amazon's free streaming platform.

A son, Peter Bishop, is asked to free his genius but sometimes unstable [possibly too much LSD, and other pyschotropic drugs & 'shrooms] scientist father, Walter Bishop from a mental institution to aid a secret group of FBI agents: the Fringe Division [agents Olivia Dunhan, Director & agent Broyles, FBI agent adjunct Astrid Farnsworth ] who investigate very strange events, and crimes. Violent events, strange human medical stuff, strange Nature events, and more.

They also get involved with a gigantic Inventions Corporation: Massive Dynamics; director Nina Sharpe. The father, and William Bell who eventually is revealed [it's a surprise of an actor late in his career] did work 20 - ?30 yrs ago for the DOD which MD was contracted with.

Things get even stranger when we the viewers, and they; the characters discover "there is more than one of everything".
Soooo good!

I repeat watch both of these, and want to turn other SF fans on to these! 🙂👍
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The Handmaid’s Tale

If it wasn't done sooo well I don't think I'd watch it. Often quietly terrifying! Sometimes violently so, in addition to the pivitol crime against The Handmaids.

Waiting for S6. Someone mentioned something, and I got spoiled for a major plot point in the future. Then there's The Testimonials which I haven't read yet. They were supposed to film that, too. Read THT back when it came out in paperback ?mid '80s, or from the library.

Movies:

ST> The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country; NG - First Contact.

SW: ESB, ROJ, #1, #3, #8, #9. Rouge One.

🤔 What else....
Interstellar.
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World.
Oh, how could I forget.....
Forbidden Planet!

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68. Thank you electric_blue68 What excellent and wonderful choices.

[electric_blue68]

86. Yw. And 😄 Dorthy reminded me - The show V, and V 2.0 .

[surfered]

59. Movie: The Day the Earth Stood Still. A movie with a message that is still timely today.

TV: Star Trek

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69. Thank you surfered and I agree with you.

[Dorothy V]

60. Them! It was the first such movie I ever saw where the female lead wasn't just a damsel in distress. She was a

Scientist and treated with respect considering the era. No slow spots either and it's fun spotting future stars in the cast.

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70. Thank you very much Dorothy V for your choice and welcome to DU

[Dorothy V]

84. Thank you for the welcome. New as I am, I am already starting to feel right at home here.

[TomSlick]

77. I like your use of the 1912 original Hocker proposal for the Arkansas flag, without the added star for the Confederacy.

Welcome to DU - from one Arkie liberal to another.

[Dorothy V]

85. Thanks for the welcome. The Hocker flag is my avi wherever I go online. Arkansas' Real flag imnho.

You're the first person in all the years I have used the Hocker flag - over a decade now, who has recognized it.

[TomSlick]

106. I'm an Arkie and a history buff.

The Hocker design was the better choice. Putting the State name on the flag was silly. Adding a star for the Confederacy was disloyal and racist.

[Dorothy V]

109. Definitely agree about the flag. I am an Air Force Brat and wasn't born here but always knew Arkansas was my home, for

which I can thank my parents for, who were determined I'd know I have roots.
I love history! I also am into genealogy. I have four greatx4 grandparents buried in Arkansas, and two of them were settled in Saline County before Arkansas was a state, so despite my birthplace, I do consider myself an Arkie. Have lived here since 1969.

[TomSlick]

111. It's a little late but welcome home.

[Dorothy V]

112. Thanks, TomSlick!

[3catwoman3]

61. Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek.

I like TOS (The Original Series), TNG (The Next Generation), Voyager, DS9 (Deep Space 9) and one of the more recent ones, Strange New Worlds. Haven't watched any of the animated ones.

Never could get into the prequel, Enterprise, with Scott Bakula, despite repeated tries.

In Strange New Worlds, Ethan Peck, grandson of Gregory Peck, portrays Spock, and does so in a most satisfying manner. Here is a link to an interview with him in which he discusses how seriously he takes this role, and how he feels portraying Spock made him want to be a better person.

https://trekmovie.com/2022/04/25/interview-ethan-peck-on-listening-to-nimoys-voice-to-get-spock-right-for-star-trek-strange-new-worlds/

My favorite Trek movie is the 4th one The Voyage Home, with the whales. "Admiral, there be whales here!"

In the late 1970s, I went to 2 Star Trek conventions, and enjoyed both enormously. Gene Roddenberry was the keynote speaker at one of them, and I also got my picture taken with Jimmy Doohan/Scotty and Walter Keonig (Chekov).

Several years ago, my husband and I went to a talk by Leonard Nimoy in a small theater in Crystal Lake, IL. Every seat was filled.

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72. Wow. Thank you for your amazing post. 3catwoman3

[Jeebo]

63. Forbidden Planet is thle best science fiction movie ever made.

Not because of the silliness of the crew members kissing Altaira, not because of the silliness involving the cook and the robot making 60 gallons of hootch for him. Where that movie is, in my humble opinion, the most profound, the deepest, the most intelligent science fiction ever filmed, is in the artifacts of the ancient Krell civilization, the way the humans in the movie interact with those artifacts, and the mystery of the source of the invisible force loose on the planet. My favorite line in the movie: "We're all monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!" I've seen that movie so many times that I find myself silently mouthing the lines along with the characters, and yet, when it comes on TV, I end up watching it again. I can't not watch it. I see parallels between it and the Star Trek TV series too. I am sure it was at least a partial inspiration for that series.

I'd like to nominate one other science fiction movie, just because I'm sure nobody else will. It is a foreign film and as such, it would also fit into a category of best foreign films. It's not marketed or promoted as a science fiction film either, but it is nevertheless science fiction, because the title phenomenon could not possibly be explained by anything other than a non-human technology. It is a German film made about 12 years ago called The Wall. It's about isolation and coping, and the psychological effects thereof. It's brilliant and fascinating. Like Forbidden Planet, I can't get tired of it no matter how many times I've seen it. The actress who is the central character should have won an Oscar. I think you can watch it for free with ads on YouTube.

Some of my other science fiction favorites:
War of the Worlds (1953, not that awful remake)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, not that awful remake)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the 1956 and 1978 versions)
The Fly (1959, not that awful remake)
2001, A Space Odyssey
Run, Lola, Run (a relentless 80-minute roller coaster ride, also a foreign film)

— Ron

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_10_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_The%2520Wall

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73. Thank you Jeebo. you have a great collection there.

[JoseBalow]

74. Amazon Women on the Moon

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75. Thank you JoseBalow. They don't look like Amazon women.

[DBoon]

76. Fritz Lang: Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon)

First, Fritz Lang is great.

The movie came out in 1929 when Robert Goddard was still experimenting with small rockets. Yet the film does an incredible job of showing how a rocket would actually operate and captures the effects of zero gravity superbly. This film invented the countdown!

This film was truly 40 years ahead of it time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_the_Moon

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78. Thank you DBoon . I think it is corny, But that is why I like silent films especially the SF ones

[MiKenMi33]

79. The Twilight Zone.

I watch them every New Years Eve.

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90. Thank you MikenMi33 So do we.

[no matrix]

80. The Fifth Element

Bruce Willis a shout out for his body of works-Armageddon, 12 Monkeys, Looper, and the Fifth Element.

I just watched it again last month, and found it ahead of its time, filmed in 1997. Leeloo, (Milla Jovovich) statement, “What’s the use of saving life when you see what you do with it?” after watching the history of humankind’s inhumanity. Powerful.

As an action movie star, he brought many of us to the theater to hear his snarky comment, laugh at his antics. Moonlighting, the TV show was also a very good series.

Thanks for the memories, Bruce!

Also, the Matrix.

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91. Thank you very much no matrix.

[boonecreek]

81. The original Twilight Zone.

I still remember watching the first season episode
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." the first time
it aired. I think the illustration of how quickly society
could break down contributed to my being a liberal today.

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92. Thank you very much boonecreek. When I taught the screenplay was in the 7th grade Literature book. We acted it out , I

showed them the Twilight Zone episode after. It was very interesting what they had to say about it.

[prodigitalson]

82. Battle Star Galactica...the 70s TV show

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88. Thank you very much prodigitalson.

[B.See]

83. Wow. Where to start...

TV Shows: (excluding super-hero genres)

Most all of the Star Trek series, including Enterprise, Voyager, Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds (we don't watch the animated stuff)

The Star Wars live action spinoffs (again not the animated stuff)

Battlestar Galactica (and to a lesser extent its predecessor), also Caprica, but not Babylon 5 though (missus called it "babble on&quot ...

Farscape, The Orville, The Expanse, Another LIfe, Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Millennium, Halo, Twilight Zone, Tales from a Parallel Universe (aka LEXX), Altered Carbon, Lost in Space (the new one, not the dorky original) Stargate, Extant (that was just getting good when they canned it... damn), anyone remember Space 1999?, The Prisoner (borderline sci-fi), Westworld, Foundation, The X-Files, See, and that crazy thing where one race had wings, lived in servitude, and unwinged humans keep them in some kind of gulag, whose name I can never remember.

will come back to post the movies.

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87. Thank you very much for the incredible list. B.See

[B.See]

110. You're welcome. Oh and btw

that last series whose name I couldn't recall is Carnival Row (maybe more in category of fantasy than sci fi). Recommend it highly.

[justaprogressive]

95. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD

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97. Thank you very much, justaprogressive.

[area51]

96. Firefly

TV series

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98. Thank you area51

[OldBaldy1701E]

99. Well...

I am betting my television choice will be obvious! Although I am an 'OG' Trekkie. I like any of it.

I liked the original 'Battlestar Galactica', but the remake was on an other level. I like it a lot.

I would have to say '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the sequel for sure.

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100. Thank you very much OldBaldy1701E. Very good selection.

[Peregrine Took]

101. "Alien Trespass". Satire of a typical 50's scifi film. Very funny.

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103. Thank you very much Peregrine Took. I like some of cheesy SF movies from the 50;s

[Borogove]

105. Plan 9 from Outer Space, a true classic.

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113. Thank you Borogove.