Watch Battlestar Galactica (2004)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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