Space Opera Bucket List

Abrams recasts Kirk and Spock, and a Romulan arriving from the future splits the timeline in two.

A Starfleet ship thrown 70,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant; Janeway, the ex-Borg Seven of Nine and seven seasons of getting home.

Khan takes a starship and the Genesis device, and Spock dies in the reactor room; the film that saved the franchise.

A house cleaner in Chicago turns out to be the heir to a dynasty that farms populated planets.

The Borg follow the Enterprise-E back to 2063 to stop Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight; the best of the Next Generation films.

Captain Pike's Enterprise a decade before Kirk, back to one story an episode after the serialised years.

A Klingon moon explodes and the original crew escort peace talks they do not believe in; their last film together.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy on a five-year mission across three seasons from 1966; "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Balance of Terror".

A smuggler crew in a space western cancelled after fourteen episodes; the cult that got a film.

A station at a wormhole and the Dominion War; the Trek that did serialised drama first.

Bounty hunters on the Bebop with a jazz score; twenty-six episodes and "See you, space cowboy".

Picard, Data and the Enterprise-D; "The Inner Light" and "The Best of Both Worlds".

Earth, Mars and the Belt on the edge of war; the most realistic space series made.

The last human fleet flees the Cylons; the sci-fi series that was really about the war on terror.

A talking raccoon, a tree and a Walkman; Marvel's space opera comedy.

A scavenger, a defecting stormtrooper and the Falcon back in the air.

Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.

Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.

Seven pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the Shrike; The Canterbury Tales in space.

Three and a half thousand years later, Leto II is mostly sandworm and rules a stagnant empire on purpose.

Herbert's last book: the Sisterhood turns its own planet into a new Arrakis.

Twelve years on, the emperor Paul is trapped by his own jihad and his own prophecy.

The Bene Gesserit against the Honored Matres, fifteen centuries after the God Emperor.

Paul's twins, born with the memories of their ancestors, and the choice Leto makes.

Character creation runs a career term by term and can kill you before play starts; the first science-fiction roleplaying game.