Setting a course for home, one season at a time.

Before we start, we should note that wewon’tbe including shows with minimal contributions from Ron Moore.

A fairly bog-standard corporate biogenetic cover-up gave way to something ever more trite with the introduction of immortal beings.

Doctor Hari Seldon in AppleTV+ television series The Expanse

The scripts, especially early on, were relatively uninteresting.

But only to a point!

The cast works well together, and the overarching themes are appreciably sociopolitical.

The cast of Season 5 of Star Trek The Next Generation

We’d hesitate to call Roswell a truly good television show, but it’s at leastdecent.

Based on an ongoing (though soon to be concluded) book series.

Boldly going straight to the small screen.

The cast of Star Trek Deep Space Nine during its fourth through sixth seasons

Outlander has certainly stumbled at times, and its shifting controls haven’t always landed.

But the charisma of its leading couple always prevails.

The other will tell you that it started out terrifically before falling apart as it went along.

Star Trek The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica and Outlander.

Let’s boldly go from last to first.

The show was gorgeous despite its somewhat modest budget.

Its cast was uniformly stellar.

The cast of Star Trek Voyager

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But there was still something here, a certain spark, waiting to be kindled.

That’s a lot, but he went on to do 31 for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Fellow Niners, this one’s for you.

The cast of Helix

The cast of Caprica

The cast of Roswell

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The cast of Carnivale

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The cast of Battlestar Galactica

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