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Shows that feel likeStar Trek: Picard (2020–2023)

Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

If you loved Star Trek: Picard, the closest series we have are The Handmaid's Tale (2017), The Last Ship (2014) and Into the Badlands (2015). All three share Star Trek: Picard'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 Vikings: Valhalla (2022).

★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · CBS All Accesscreated by Alex Kurtzmancerebraldreamlikekineticepiccontemplativebleak
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If Star Trek: Picard hit the spot, these will too

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

Watching ideals you trusted rot into something unrecognizable

The difference: Punishing dystopia with no adventure valve — the misery is the point

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 dutiful crew holding the line while civilization falls apart

The difference: Military-thriller plainness — action beats over big ideas

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 weary warrior questioning the violent order he once served

The difference: Martial-arts spectacle first — the philosophy rides on wire-fu

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

Post-collapse sci-fi asking who deserves saving, and who decides

The difference: One frozen train the whole way — claustrophobia instead of open space

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

Common ground: dystopia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Star Trek: Picard does

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

A graying protector dragged back into a fight for the next generation

The difference: Blind post-apocalypse premise — pulpy world-building over ideas

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

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into war & politics than Star Trek: Picard 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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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

Contemplative sci-fi where the fight is moral before it's physical

The difference: Occupied-America grimness — no ship, no crew, no flicker of Trek warmth

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

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

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

The same preoccupation in both: space

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Star Trek: Picard 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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Vikings: Valhalla
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then bleakness

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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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2022– · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A future where the institutions failed and the desperate scrape by

The difference: Neon anime carnage — brutal and fast where Picard is stately

In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.

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