Technological discovery
Anyone with a sense of wonder.
A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Star Trek: The Movie, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis, Stargate, Forbidden Planet, 12 Monkeys, A.I., Aliens saga, Back to the Future (all), Contact, Edward Scissorhands, Finding Neverland, Galaxy Quest, Gattaca, Ghostbusters (both), The Great Escape, Groundhog Day, The Incredibles, Indiana Jones (all), Interview with a Vampire, The Iron Giant, Jaws, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Little Shop of Horrors, Pi, Rear Window, Saving Private Ryan, Lorenzo's Oil, Superman, Superman Returns, Trekkies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Batman Begins, Ed Wood, The Fifth Element, Harry Potter (all), Ice Age, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Idiocracy, Inner Space, Jumaniji, K-Pax, Lost in Space, Jurassic Park (all), Metropolis, Minority Report, Man on the Moon, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Planet of the Apes, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Unbreakable, 2001, 2010, Aelita Queen of Mars, Armageddon, Barbarella, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blade Runner, Willy Wonka and the Chocholate Factory, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cube, Dark Star, Defending your Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Field of Dreams, Flight of the Navigator, The Goonies, Gremlins, I Robot, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Island of Dr. Moreau, Labyrinth, Mars Attacks!, The Matrix (all), Men in Black (both), Mission to Mars, The NeverEnding Story, October Sky, Patch Adams, Robocop, Robots, Spaceballs, Starship Troopers, Terminator (all), The War of the Worlds, Tron, Zathura, Independence Day, The Day the Earth Stood Still
Futurama, Clone Wars, Star Trek, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons, The Jetsons, The X-Files, Future Weapons, Lost in Space, Quantum Leap, Firefly, MythBusters, Nova
Albert Einstein, Mr. Peabody, Nikola Tesler, Lev Termen, Thomas Eddison, Dr. Emmet Brown, Leonardo da Vinci, Zefram Cochrane, Richard Feynman, Frederick M. Jones, Dr. Charles Richard Drew