In every sci-fi film ever

161a. (pre 2008) A black president
161b. (pre 2016) A female president
161c. (post 2016) A sensible republican president

160. awkward attempt at creating a controversial situation that mimics IRL current events, cf waterboarding an alien or forcing amphibious creature that are imprisoned to wear orange jumpsuits and hoods.

see also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHG3pi9EDA

161. Alien races are culturally and religiously monolithic.
161b. Exceptions include conflicts between two classes that are opposite, such as the Let That Be Your Last Battlefield episode of the original Star Trek series

Didn't read the whole list, but ... doors that open with a scan of the eye/hand/thumbprint? Unhappy people with shaved heads? Interactive computers that respond to voice commands? Constant dull rumbling and the sound of water dripping in the background? The sound of things dramatically charging up (guns, machines, cars, etc.)?

162-167

168. the city/planet has weather controlled by one central computer, which goes haywire somehow (this is mainly in every 80s anime sci-fi)

169. pleather

corinthian pleather

170. Streamlined designs on spaceships that will never enter a planet's atmosphere.

A lot of 162-167 sound like the present!

171. Buildings with big fans on the top that are turning too slowly to be useful for anything.

A lot of 162-167 sound like the present!

The future is now!

172. under-lighting through grated floors

people brushing their teeth

oh wait, that's just battlestar galactica

173. character played by someone who was on Mad About You

Remnants of some long-dead precursor/progenitor galaxy-spanning alien who left tech and possibly a mystery behind for Our Hero to crack and whose imminent return after 20,000 - 10 million years will be in about 5 minutes.

This also qualifies for every sci-fi game ever.

174. Bad guy/science officer has British accent.

175

176. Oddly sterile living spaces.

177. projectile weapons

178. actors doing stuff in front of greenscreens

179. Aliens look just like us, except crinkle-cut

180. Jaded ship's doctor.

181. boots built into trousers

182. one character is a smoker

183. its the distant future or past but everyone speaks American English

184. vin diesel's robotic monotone performance kind of works for this movie
http://i.imgur.com/udP9f.png

185. shabby moth-eaten knitwear

186. Goo

187. Space cows

188. Animals from other planets just being named like our animals with the planet stuck on the front, e.g. "Rigellian Hippo"

189. clones are people too, turns out (hint: it's YOU).

190. Hella Orientalism.

191. Noone sees anything odd or inappropriate about naming a passenger carrying spacecraft 'Titanic'.

192. utility data

193. Perfect tidal forces everywhere

194. Humans

195. Orbits shows as perfectly circular.

196. A complete lack of relativistic effects when traveling at or near light speed. Like, after the Enterprise's very first mission, everyone they ever knew on Earth should already have been dead for centuries.

Planet of the Apes tho.

197. Goddamn dirty apes

198. Female voice over the PA Speakers: Three. Two. One. Goodbye.
199. Weapons that need to be charged for a certain number of seconds or minutes. LEDs light up when it's ready for use.
200. A camera flash charging sound; usually directly before laz0r discharge or when some smallish spaceship or flying car is about to launch.

201. Twist ending where the protagonist finds out he's a robot, or a clone, or some bullshit like that.

199b. Ridiculously designed battleship which has to lower shields to fire weapons.

202. Unexpected effects caused by time travel

If the weapons could fire through the shields, those would be pretty bad shields.

203. People are seamlessly able to fly spacecraft they've never seen or imagined before with no prior training

Surely they can make one-directional shields in teh future.

204. we've arrived on the planet..... it seems to be completely populated by women!

205. Newly discovered life form intuitively interfaces with human technology to communicate with humans

if they could make one directional shields in the future, some wise guy would just flip the polarity on the weapons.
also:

206. reversing polarities makes a gadget do the opposite and saves the day.