Join us in January as we journey to the stars with five of Hollywood’s best science-fiction films from the last two decades. We begin on January 8 when Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to Mars in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall, the last great special-effects epic made before the age of computer-generated imagery. Star Trek: First Contact (January 15) is generally considered the best of the Next Generation series of Trek films, with a story that employs time travel and an invasion of the zombie-like Borg army. Astronauts are sent to reignite the dying sun in Sunshine (January 22). Paul Verhoeven’s pop masterpiece Starship Troopers (January 26) is an action-packed gorefest adapted from Robert Heinlein’s novel. When Joss Whedon’s Western-with-spaceships TV series Firefly was cancelled midway through its first season, the outcry from fans was so great that Whedon created a feature-length extension for theaters. The resulting film, Serenity (January 29), was a hit with Firefly fans, but it’s also attained a cult of its own.