For current varied SF, O suggested Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which apparently goes back to the original ST stand-alone episode approach, rather than focusing on a single overarching narrative. It seems to have gone down well with viewers.
For recent serious SF with a single narrative arc, we've enjoyed The Expanse, based on the James S A Corey series of books (which I can also recommend) - it's reasonably hard space opera, initially Solar System-based. For All Mankind is also really good (alternate history of the space race and subsequent developments), though we've only seen the first couple of series so far.
For older mostly or partly episodic SF, we regularly re-watch early Star Trek, Blake's 7, Babylon 5 and Firefly. We're also currently re-watching random episodes from the classic first 6 series of Red Dwarf (a 6d6 roll works beautifully!) which are all available on iPlayer, and the first few series of The X Files, available to stream on Channel 4. Oh, and The Outer Limits (late 90s version) really does it for me too.
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Date: 2025-05-23 01:30 pm (UTC)For recent serious SF with a single narrative arc, we've enjoyed The Expanse, based on the James S A Corey series of books (which I can also recommend) - it's reasonably hard space opera, initially Solar System-based. For All Mankind is also really good (alternate history of the space race and subsequent developments), though we've only seen the first couple of series so far.
For older mostly or partly episodic SF, we regularly re-watch early Star Trek, Blake's 7, Babylon 5 and Firefly. We're also currently re-watching random episodes from the classic first 6 series of Red Dwarf (a 6d6 roll works beautifully!) which are all available on iPlayer, and the first few series of The X Files, available to stream on Channel 4. Oh, and The Outer Limits (late 90s version) really does it for me too.