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Shows that feel likeStar Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

If you loved Star Trek: Discovery, the closest series we have are Falling Skies (2011), The Handmaid's Tale (2017) and The Last Ship (2014). All three share Star Trek: Discovery's cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Into the Badlands (2015).

★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · CBS All Accesscreated by Bryan Fullercerebraldreamlikekineticepiccontemplativebleak
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If Star Trek: Discovery hit the spot, these will too

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Falling Skies
2011–2015 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Battered survivors regrouping under an enemy that outguns them

The difference: Earthbound guerrilla grind, minus the big-idea episodes

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

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The Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

Dystopia experienced through one woman who refuses to break

The difference: Unrelenting earthbound cruelty — no escape into the stars

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A lone crew carrying humanity's hopes through catastrophe

The difference: Straight military hardware drama with little sci-fi wonder

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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Into the Badlands
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

A far-future world rebuilt strange, crossed by warriors with codes

The difference: Fight choreography is the point — the ideas ride in back

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
★ 6.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime VideoHulu

A sealed society at war with itself after the world ends

The difference: Claustrophobic class allegory that stays on one track

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

An oppressive alternate order resisted quietly from within

The difference: Stately, chilly pacing with barely any action release

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Star Trek: Discovery does

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureApple TV+

Cerebral and dreamlike in the same breath

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

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Sweet Home
2020–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.

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The Silent Sea
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryNetflix

Common ground: space

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Star Trek: Discovery does

During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.

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SEAL Team
2017–2024 · 7 seasons · CBS
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflixParamount+

Both land stillness and bleakness at once

Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.

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Vikings: Valhalla
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Action & adventure with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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