And this all reminds me I really need to re-watch the show again. Some of the movies did a better job than S5 of fleshing out/extending the story. S2-4 remains the best televised SF you're probably going to see. S1 is necessary foundation work but a bit of a slog sometimes. Then they got picked up for season five and had to pull something out of their ass and it was kinda okay sometimes but mostly not really. All 110 Original Episodes Fully Remastered Own all five seasons of the award-winning series about the space station thats the tumultuous center of the 23rd centurys bid for peace among humans and aliens. Season four they thought they were being cancelled and had two years of plot to fit and the entire season (bar a couple of early episodes) is serialized like you'd expect to see on a cable drama now. HoloLens PC Mobile device Xbox 360 Description. Second season they brought in a new lead who could actually act (while making the departure of the original lead integral to the larger plot and seem like it was something that had to happen all along) and started giving a lot more weight to the serialized story. It's not a huge shock-truly episodic television was unheard of at the time and it was trying to build an audience. The larger narrative arc is there in the background, but it's dolled out five minutes one episode and ten the next and then skipped completely for an episode. Season one was hampered by a terrible wooden lead actor and that it leaned too heavily on stand-alone episodes.

Like MooseOllini said, S2-4 is a real high water mark for televised SF and despite the dated CGI nothing since has done what it did. Is it sorta of like Enterprise where it's one cliff hanger after another just wanting you to watch the next episode? Or more episodic like TNG?

^^ hey as long as the story line is ok i'm game.

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