Finding Inspiration in Science Fiction

Yeah I am a fan of Science Fiction. The only thing that pushes me to live longer is the thought to see the advanced super computers or Space ships I have been reading in the novels till now. I dream of the day when we are not bound by our physical limitations, will live infinitely and have inhibited millions of planets on many galaxies. But alas! I was born a few millennia early.

And so from time to time I resort to watch famous Sci-Fi TV series to satiate my undying urge to experience future!

I watched Star Gate SG-1 series...and that was the most wonderful experience.

The last Episode of the last Season (Season-10) of the Series named, "Unending" was the best creative end of a TV series I have ever seen. It can make you cry, gasp in awe or simply inspire! It's just too good. So here is a brief...

SG-1, the heroic team which is the focus of the whole TV series, acquires the most advanced technology and every bit of knowledge ever gathered by a long time friendly race of aliens who have come to an insurmountable problem in their physical evolution and will be extinct soon as a race. Armed with such reserves of knowledge and technology, the team's spaceship starts its journey back to earth, when their ship is confronted by 3 Ori Motherships (a very bad, villainous alien race) . No matter how hard the team tries to escape the mother-ships, they get found all the time. Running out of time, even as their tecnologically advanced ship is running out of defensive shields, they decide only way to gain more time is to generate a localized time dilation field with-in the ship. So even though for a person outside their spaceship, time will pass normally, the time within the space ship will slow down so much that they can spend years of normal life inside the ship while outside only a few microseconds will pass. Thinking this will give them enough time to find an alternative way to stop Ori ships from destroying them, they go ahead and execute it. Once within the field and having spent a few months, they realize however, their is no safe way out of this predicament. The moment they disable the field they will die. The team however, doesn't give up, they spend their entire life time trying to find the solution to get out safe and to keep safe the knowledge of the now dead race. They spend 50 years on the space ship and then a fine day, when they are all old and weary, they figure out a way to reverse the time field and also get out of the impending doom! That was the most interesting and satisfying end to a TV series ever!