Favorites - 15 Favorite Black Characters in Sci-Fi

The science fiction genre has given us a crapton of characters to follow and root for. When it comes Black folk, it gets a little tough. You may see one or even two of us running around or being a side piece somewhere. Even when you see one of us playing a character, they’re sometimes playing an alien. Just guess why you won’t see someone like Guinan, Worf, and Tuvok from Star Trek or Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy. I could make a case for Teal’C from Stargate: SG-1 since he is technically human, but I’ll leave him off this one. It gives me a chance to look for other characters outside of these big sci-fi franchises.

So, here are my favorite black characters in the genre. One limitation I gave myself was that I wouldn’t include any superheroes on this list, so no Storm or John Stewart. I actually made a list similar to this years ago, and I wanted to look in other places where there are some cool characters. I might break that rule for a couple, but I’ll only go so far. As usual, it’s a bit of a random list, but I’ll put my favorites up top. You only can guess who’ll be first.

TV Talk - The Expanse Season 1

Next up for the month… wait, it’s June. Yeah… I got a little sidetracked with some stuff going on. Have you been seeing the news lately? I gotta say that it made want to take a break, so posting about some possible dystopia futures didn’t sound all that great. Also, I had some other projects (work, home, and church) going on, so the last few days have been a bit busy. So, Sci-Fi month pretty much ended with Kirk beating Nazis, and that’s a cool thing. I still want to talk about a few things that didn’t make it into May, though.

Anyway,  next up is a show that I’ve been meaning to watch: The Expanse. The show  was based on a novel series by James S.A. Corey. This was a show that I was pretty curious about when it was being aired on Syfy. When I heard that a grounded, dour sci-fi show was coming to Syfy, I was interested… I didn’t tune in, though. Yeah, I could’ve went online to their site, but I wasn’t thinking about it at the time. It then got cancelled but revived on Amazon Prime.  I ended up getting Amazon Prime this year, and when I realized that I could finally watch some shows that I’ve been curious about, this was the first one on the list.