Science & Tech Quote by Lexa Doig

“I quite enjoy science fiction” lands like a throwaway, but in an actor’s mouth it’s also a small act of positioning. Lexa Doig isn’t delivering a manifesto; she’s claiming a lane. The adverb “quite” does a lot of work: it softens the statement for an audience that, for decades, treated sci-fi as a guilty pleasure or a niche obsession. It’s a polite hedge that still communicates allegiance, the kind of phrasing you use when you know the room might have opinions.

The cultural subtext is about legitimacy. For performers who’ve built careers inside genre TV, admitting affection for science fiction can be read as either fan-service or self-defense. Doig’s line neatly avoids both. “Enjoy” is deliberately unpretentious - not “admire,” not “revere,” not “it challenges our assumptions.” She keeps it personal and sensory, which subtly insists that sci-fi doesn’t need to justify itself with lofty credentials. Pleasure is enough.

Context matters here: Doig came up during an era when Canadian and American television leaned hard on sci-fi as a workhorse genre - ambitious ideas, limited budgets, devoted audiences, and a critical establishment that often looked away. A simple endorsement becomes a quiet nod to the community that sustains those shows: the viewers who pay attention, the writers who take big swings, the cast who commit even when the world-building is held together with duct tape. It’s modest, but it’s a tell: she’s not embarrassed by the future.