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The Eschaton, from Charles Stross's Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise.

The Seraphs, from Paul McAuley's Evening's Empires.

The Fast Folk, from Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series.

Whew, you actually brought an extra!

Took me a while to go through most of the references, the only weak link I would argue of is the Fast Folk (from the comments I could gather at least; besides the Culture series, I didn't read any of the titles myself, to be honest). Certainly a Culture Mind (wrapped in one of their ships) is one of the answers I was looking for.

Round's yours!

OK, another list of five: five SF books, TV shows, or films where the main driver of the plot is that the character(s) is/are lost, and are striving to find their way home (or, possibly, to reach some other destination).

Comic books? Space Family Robinson?

Yes, comic books are allowed! Space Family Robinson counts as number one.

Earl Dumarest / Edwin Charles Tubb / searching for Earth

Edwin Charles Tubb's Dumarest saga makes two …

Battlestar Galactica?

Commander_X wrote:

Battlestar Galactica?

Yes - they're not trying to find their way home, but they are searching for an unknown (possibly mythological) destination. That's three …

Sliders - they couldn't find their way back to the dimension they started from (although in at least one episode they may have briefly returned without realising it)

Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:51 am

OK, another list of five: five SF books, TV shows, or films where the main driver of the plot is that the character(s) is/are lost, and are striving to find their way home (or, possibly, to reach some other destination).

Well there is the whole of Star Trek 3 - the one with a woman in Kirk's chair, not the Earl-Grey-hot guy. Sorry - I never got into "Star Trek The Last 7 generations".
Isn't it the one with a medical hologram providing comic relief?
Something about making their way back from the Delta Quadrant.

Isn't it the one with a medical hologram providing comic relief?

<grins> If the medical hologram provided comic relief, what the hell did the holodeck provide?

Cody wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:46 pm

Isn't it the one with a medical hologram providing comic relief?

<grins> If the medical hologram provided comic relief, what the hell did the holodeck provide?

Something to wipe the tears away?

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:41 pm

Well there is the whole of Star Trek 3 - the one with a woman in Kirk's chair, not the Earl-Grey-hot guy.

<finger counts: TOS, 1, TNG, 2, DS9, 3. Voyager 4; pedantically replies: />
Unless you consider Kirk's Star Trek as being Start Trek 0 (or maybe just Star Trek), the one you're talking about should be Star Trek 4.

Sliders makes four, and Star Trek: Voyager makes five! Other possible answers could have included Ulysses 31, or (for a lost-in-time variant) Quantum Leap.

Over to RockDoctor for the next round …