You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and don't enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. Serenity (Firefly) 88% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 81% SG-1 (Stargate) 75% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 69% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 63% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 63% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 63% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 56% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 56% Moya (Farscape) 50% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 25% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 25% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

There's a problem with the quiz, though (as there often are with these things).

I wasn't quite sure how to answer the very first question:

"Peace is achieved through large single government rule (agree, disagree).

Well, I agree that this is certainly a way to achieve peace, but there seems to be a presumption to this (or at least an implication) that peace is an unalloyed good. As some anti-war types are fond of pointing out, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was largely at peace (if you don't count the random murders and torture that he occasioned on his own people), but it was hardly a desirable state. So I answered yes, but I'm not sure how that answer was interpreted by the test creators.

Also, interestingly, I see that when I go back to look at the quiz, the order of the questions is different. They must randomize it.

[Via Alan Henderson]

[Late morning update]

The more I think about it, the more I suspect that the "peace" question lowered my Firefly score. I think that whoever wrote the question did assume that a) peace is a desirable thing, per se and b) everyone would agree with that--the only issue is how it's best achieved. What's the flip side of that question? "Peace is achieved through multiple government rule?" "Peace is achieved through minimalist government?" "Peace is achieved through a well-armed citizenry?" This was a really unuseful question, as posed.

I scored as Moya (Farscape). Having never seen the show, I have no idea whether that is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing.

I scored as the crew of the Millenium Falcon. I too thought "none of the above" would have been a better answer for some of the questions.

Of course would a freedom loving libertarian really want to be part of a crew whose Captain regularly enforces discipline by threatening to shoot/space his crew and resorts to his fists?

Babylon 5

I got Enterprise D. I feel really boring now.

Jane,

Are you the next Beverly Crusher or Counseler Troi?

Weird. The only character that seems realistic to me on DS9 was Quark. I would have thought B5 and Serenity would score higher.

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 100%
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 100%
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 75%
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 75%
Moya (Farscape) 75%
Serenity (Firefly) 75%
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)75%
SG-1 (Stargate) 75%
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 63%
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 50%
Enterprise D (Star Trek) 50%
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 25%

Mike, I guess Crusher would be the obvious choice for me in the sorority of redheaded lady doctors. These days people tell me I look like the Dr. Shepard character on Grey's Anatomy. No, not Patrick Dempsey. The other Dr. Shepard.

It's just that all the shows I like in SF like B5 or BSG or Firefly ro even DS9 strike me as more interesting than TNG. So I'm going to pout now.

Okay I'm done.

I see a simple way out of Rand's dilemma. Assume that a country which tortures its citizens is NOT at peace, and answer "Disagree".

According to the quiz, I'm Millenium Falcon (Star Wars) 96%.

Whatever.

I think I'm Stargate (they said 69%). (Except of course I don't believe the pyramids were built by aliens, which I knew would kill my chances in the quiz.)

I'm still pissed my cable company moved the Sci-Fi Channel to their digital service right in the middle of the Stargate season a couple of years ago. I loved the concept of the show: All the exotic foreign worlds of science fiction, set in our time with our people, our culture, our weapons. An hour of pure unbridled fantasy each week. Sigh. I miss that.

Back to the quiz - I found I checked a lot of neutrals - halfway between agree & disagree. Who makes this stuff up? (Not that I think I could do any better. ;-p)

Woo! Let's hear it for the browncoats!

Serenity (Firefly) 88%
Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 81%
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 81%
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 75%
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 75%
SG-1 (Stargate) 75%
Moya (Farscape) 69%
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 50%
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 50%
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50%
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 44%
Enterprise D (Star Trek) 38%

Not surprised by that last one... I'd look *terrible* in them jammies Star Fleet wears. And a gun without recoil or splatter... when does that get fun?

"Mike, I guess Crusher would be the obvious choice for me in the sorority of redheaded lady doctors."

Good! I always liked the scrappy Dr. Beverely more that the pretensious "Goddes of Empathy" as Reginal Barkley had her cast in one of his holofantasies.

Barbara writes:

I'm still pissed my cable company moved the
Sci-Fi Channel to their digital service right in the middle of the Stargate season a couple of years ago.

That happened to us with the current season of Battlestar Galactica. Bleep, bleep Comcast!

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I just finished reading a book of essays on Firefly (Finding Serenity) and there is a terrific crossover idea based upon the crew of Firefly being teleported to the bridge of Enterprise (Captain Archer's Enterprise) and vice versa.

Jayne blows holes in red-shirt Star Fleet security. "Ooops!" He says.

Captain Archer attempts to negotiate with Reavers.

Oooops. I forgot to ask Rand a question.

Which Firefly character are you most similar to?

Which Firefly character are you most similar to?

I've no idea, and don't really care.

"Which Firefly character are you most similar to?

I've no idea, and don't really care."

With that attitude, I think you sound a little more Mal than Jayne.

"Which Firefly character are you most similar to?"

There's a quiz - right here.

The quiz says I'm River Tam. Other than gender, partial lobotomy, and beating up government agents, that's about right.

>Which Firefly character are you most similar to?

Since Rand professes a deep distrust of government but at the same time defends the invasion of Iraq, I guess he'd be most like the schizotypal River. My favorite character actually.

Actually there is an originally leftist concept that works here: Structural violence.

ie. An unjust system is itself "violent" even though no shooting is going on.

Originally developed for lefty purposes such as saying that if a minority underclass member shoots a sorority girl, well she started it through structural violence.

But it's actually really useful. Dictatorships are not "at peace" and so deposing them is not "starting a war".

This must be why lefties have stopped using the phrase.