SF Debris, once known as Sci-Fi Debris, is a website run by Chuck Sonnenburg, a long-time member of various Star Trek and Star Wars online fan communities as well as a big fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. What he and the website are mostly known for these days are his "Opinionated Star Trek Episode Guides", snarky-but-loving reviews of the Trek franchise.
Since 2008, he's taken his reviews onto a video format on YouTube, Blip (now defunct), Screenwave, Vidme (now also defunct), and Vimeo, growing in popularity. His style, a mixture of serious analysis peppered with deadpan humour played over clips from the show, has begun to catch on with other reviewers (including Linkara, who borrowed one of his ideas, and eventually led to Linkara's own series, History of Power Rangers). His site also features a few essays (including a history of how Spider-Man has declined in quality) and his (two trilogy, 250 chapter) crossover Fan Fiction, The Unity Saga. And now he's branched out some more with the Star Wars Gag Sub "Astromech Spy" and three serious documentaries about the Making and Rise of Star Wars as well as its creator, George Lucas, with the 100-minute The Hero's Journey, the nearly-three-hour The Shadow's Journey, and the slightly over three hours The Hermit's Journey
Often compared (and paired) with Confused Matthew, to the point where CM had been kind enough to give him a dedicated sub-forum; particularly useful as the two have a similar fanbase anyway, though now he (SFDebris) has his own forum. He also made a cameo in the 200th episode of Atop The Fourth Wall.
On May 12, 2011, all of his Star Trek reviews were removed from Youtube, as a pre-emptive measure when CBS (which has been cracking down severely on other Star Trek fan channels as well) filed a claim against his "Trials and Tribble-ations" review. As The BBC has already done the same with his Red Dwarf reviews, under the Youtube "three strikes" policy, he now has only one strike remaining.
He announced on July 29th 2014 that he'd been accepted to Channel Awesome via one of the site's talent searches. He officially started appearing on the site on October 11th. On March 24th 2018 he announced his departure from Channel Awesome.
Following Blip's closure on August 20th 2015, the show went on a brief hiatus. Chuck returned on September 1st and used Screenwave as his host, but in early May 2017, he had to switch over to Vidme like everyone else who used Screenwave's player on their sites. Vidme going under relatively shortly thereafter necessitated yet another move to Vimeo, only for the later to eventually start flagging all his Star Trek content forcing him to migrate those to Dailymotion, which in January 2021, also suddenly removed his videos. He now instead uses a mixture of Youtube (mainly for so called A Look At videos consisting mostly of him narrating over static screens rather than video) and Bitchute.
- Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series (complete), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (complete), Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and all 13 movies
Anime
- Code Geass
- Cowboy Bebop
- Destiny of the Shrine Maiden
- Dragon Ball Z
- Evangelion 1.11 and 2.22
- Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Full Metal Panic!
- Full Moon
- Ghost in the Shell
- Kannazuki no Miko
- Kino's Journey
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Mahoromatic
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
- Paranoia Agent
- Planetes
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Robotech
- Summer Wars
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Trigun
- The Vision of Escaflowne
Film
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Alien
- The Andromeda Strain
- Battlefield Earth
- Blade Runner
- Dark City
- The Dark Knight
- The Day After
- Dune (1984) (the David Lynch film)
- Flash Gordon
- Galaxy Quest
- Gattaca
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Godzilla (1954)
- Godzilla 1985
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Howard the Duck
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Logan's Run
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- The Man from Earth
- The Matrix
- Night of the Comet
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- RoboCop (1987)
- Stargate (the original movie)
- Star Wars:
- Sunshine
- The Terminator
- The Thing (1982)
- Them!
- Transformers (2007)
- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
- Zardoz
Literature
- The Andromeda Strain
- The Expanse (Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate)
- Foundation (the first time he reviews a book)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Hogfather
- World War Z (the second time he's reviewed a book)
Live-Action TV
- Andromeda
- Babylon 5
- Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- Blake's 7
- Doctor Who (Including a comprehensive review of episodes that are incomplete)
- Farscape
- Firefly
- The Flipside of Dominick Hide
- Fringe
- Game of Thrones (the first episode)
- The Orville
- Red Dwarf
- Space: Above and Beyond
- Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis)
- Threshold
- Torchwood (specifically Torchwood: Miracle Day)
- The Twilight Zone (1959)
- Twin Peaks
- V
- Wonder Woman (the 2011 pilot episode)
- The X-Files
Video Games
- Anna's Quest
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Dragon Age II
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Fallout 3
- Mass Effect 2
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (Imperial Agent, Sith Inquisitor, Sith Warrior, Bounty Hunter)
- System Shock 2
- Technobabylon
- Wing Commander III
Western Animation
- All-Star Superman
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Avatar: The Last Airbender and the companion/sequel comic, The Promise, as it helps lead into Korra.
- Batman: The Animated Series (Including Mask of the Phantasm)
- Batman Beyond (both the show and The Movie, Return of the Joker).
- Beast Wars
- Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
- Bionicle: Web of Shadows
- Captain Star
- Exo Squad
- Extreme Ghostbusters
- Dragons Lair
- Gargoyles
- Gravity Falls
- The Iron Giant
- Jonny Quest
- Justice League
- The Legend of Korra (Books One and Two)
- Lilo & Stitch
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Rick and Morty
- Rock and Rule
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Superman: The Animated Series
- Superman vs. the Elite
- Thunderbirds
- Titan A.E.
- The Transformers
- Transformers: Prime
- Treasure Planet
- WALL•E
- Watership Down
This show provides and discusses examples of:
- "I'm afraid!"
"I knooooooooooow."