OK, I just tabulated the comments here, the summary is below. I am asking the moderators to please CLOSE the poll.
I would also ask that the thread be locked, and a new thread for general discussion on the viability or potential value of specific properties be opened; I *may* use the results of this poll to start new polls on the same general topic, but with somewhat more restrictive questions.
In tabulating the results, I started with the poll numbers from the existing poll, and ignored the "Other/Multiple" count. I then went through the comments, and any comment that favorably mentioned multiple properties, I added one vote for each property.
If a comment listed a single property already on the poll, I ignored the comment, assuming that the poster had voted for that property in the poll; if it listed a single unlisted property, I added the property to the list, with one vote. Subsequent mentions of that property added one vote to it.
I DID NOT ATTEMPT TO CORRECT FOR MULTIPLE COMMENTS FROM THE SAME PERSON. I also had no way of knowing if someone voted for (say) Vatta on the poll, and then mentioned Vatta, Blake 7, and Laser Ponies in the comments; the comment would have added one vote for each, even though the commenter may have added a vote for Vatta directly.
Yes, I took the votes for the "You're kidding" entries, like ThunderCats and Laser Ponies.
Also, people mentioned authors or genres without naming specific properties; I took those votes as well (they're in my notes as e.g., "Cherryh Unspecified" or "Generic Steampunk"), and they are referred to as "properties" in the tally below.
Where different named series were known to me to actually be set in the same universe (e.g., Falkenberg, CoDominium, and Moties), I combined the votes. If it was not known to me that they are so set, or if it was known to me that they are NOT so set, they were maintained separately (e.g., Cherryh, Company Wars vs. Chanur).
The properties named ranged across the entire media spectrum, from SF and Fantasy books, to live-actor TV, to animation TV, to live actor movies, to CGI and animation movies, to other RPGs, to video games. The two most-often used media sources seem to be SF books and live-actor TV, with live-actor movies a distant third.
The Tally:
B5 seems to be the most-wanted, with 26 votes.
Harrington follows with 19.
Blakes 7 is third with 9.
Firefly (including Serenity) ranked fourth with 7.
The following properties had 6 votes each: 2300/2320, H.Beam Piper, Republic of Cinnabar/Leary-Mundy, and Vatta.
The following properties had 5 votes each: Dune, Foundation, Known Space/Ringworld, Rogue Trooper, Stainless Steel Rat.
The following properies had 4 votes each: CoDominium/Falkenberg/Moties, Mass Effect, Space Above and Beyond, Stargate (all), The Culture.
There were 15 properties that got 3 votes each.
There were 23 properties that got 2 votes each.
There were 62 properties that were named once.
