Often regarded as a bit darker than TOS or TNG, DS9 is a TNG spinoff that takes place aboard a space station and is the first Star Trek series to move from strictly episodic television into somewhat more seasonal story arcs, particularly towards the end. Commander Benjamin Sisko is not only a Star Fleet Officer, …
Another TNG spinoff, Voyager follows a small science exploration vessel that gets stranded in the far distant Delta Quadrant. The first Star Trek series with a female captain, Voyager follows the crew as they encounter new species and old enemies as they try to make their way back to Earth. In addition to Kate Mulgrew …
Enterprise is set about 100 years before TOS, before the United Federation of Planets even exists. I know that a lot of people aren’t fond of Enterprise, but it is my favorite of all of the Star Treks. Starting with Season 3, the series committed to seasonal story arcs, building on what came before to …
This series is set shortly before TOS and overlaps with TOS characters. It is the first series to not concentrate on the captain and bridge crew, instead the main character is Michael (female) Burnham, a previously promising officer who in the pilot mutinies against her captain (Michelle Yeoh). For reasons that are never well explained, …
This series picks up with Jean Luc Picard 20 years after the events in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis. Picard left Starfleet under difficult circumstances and is living an unfulfilling retirement when a young woman who is being hunted by mysterious soldiers turns to him for help. Intensely character driven, this is a much darker …
Difficult to categorize: one of the main questions for the viewer is whether this is science fiction or just a story of a troubled person. A young woman starts experiencing visions after a car accident. She develops the ability to move around in time, guided in her travels by her dead father. Except that her …
Strange comedy about a reporter (Wyatt Cenac) who reluctantly goes to a small town to do a piece on people who have been abducted by aliens. It soon becomes clear that he is also an “experiencer.” Told from the point of view of the human group and also a workplace comedy aboard the alien ship. …
An alien, played with gusto by Alan Tudyk, crash lands on Earth and has to pretend to be a human. He is not particularly good at it.
A group of people in desperate need of money are invited to play a mysterious game to win incredible wealth. But it turns out that the stakes are higher than they realized. Often unlikeable protagonists, unlikely situations and deeply disturbing psychological drama – but that said, it is impossible to stop watching.
Set in a world where people can download themselves into new bodies (sleeves). The series follows Takeshi Kovacs, an elite fighter. He’s been downloaded into a new sleeve after centuries of being on ice. He’s told to solve a murder for a wealthy businessman. The interchangeability of bodies makes the body a fairly meaningless vessel, …