Favorite Characters* in Science Fiction Literature, Television and Film** (Ranked Top 20 style)

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This one is a little bit different, as it pulls characters from not just literature but film and televisions as well (I just couldn't come up with that many characters from SF literature alone that I loved enough to put on this list, so I added the other two mediums). Here goes!

 

1 Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs - Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton
2 Kara Thrace - Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore version)
3 Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore version)
4 Paula Myo - Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton
5 Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek: The Next Generation (and more)***
6 G'Kar - Bablyon 5, Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers
7 Rodney McKay - Stargate Atlantis (and more)***
8 Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation (and more)***
9 Valentine Michael Smith - Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
10 Spock - Star Trek: The Original Series (and more)***
11 Stephen Franklin - Babylon 5
12 Karl Agathon - Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore version)
13 Ronon Dex - Stargate Atlantis
14 Eli Wallace - Stargate Universe
15 Louise Kavanaugh - The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
16 Mellanie Rescorai - Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton
17 Londo Mollari - Babylon 5
18 Ione Saldana - The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
19 Josua Calvert - The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
20 Galen Tyrol - Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore version)

 

 

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)

 

Syrinx - The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamiliton
Vir Cotto - Babylon 5 (and more)***
Miles O'Brien - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Teal'c - Stargate SG-1 (and more)***
Duncan Idaho - Dune series

 

 

* Not necessarily good characters or heroes, may be antagonists
** Not including characters from Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe (those are for a totally different list of mine)
*** "and more" means also appears, sometimes just briefly, in other properties within that franchise