Astronaut John Crichton is on an experimental space mission to test a new spacecraft slingshoting around the globe. He is accidentally is accidentally sucked into a wormhole and emerged into the midst of an intergalactic conflict far out in the universe. He joins the crew on Moya ( a living sentient bio-mechanical space ship ) who picked him up after his unfortunate wormhole ride. He has to get to grips with living among alien creatures wielding deadly technology and being hunted by the Peacekeepers, a merciless military race.
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Babylon 5
Commander Sinclair commands a giant five-mile long cylindrical space station. It orbits a planet in neutral space and has become a diplomatic centre for different interstellar empires. Between handling troubles between the different empires ambassadors Commander Sinclair also has to fight internal strife in the Earth Alliance.
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Stargate SG-1
An ancient race filled our galaxy with stargates that can create artificial wormholes between each other to make it easier and faster to travel the galaxy. One is found on earth and the United States military forms a task force to explore these new planets that has open up for us.
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Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer". Buffy, a sexy kick-ass high school girl, is her generations chosen one. Destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, while still trying, and failing, to be just a "normal girl". Luckily for her, she is not alone in her quest to save the world. She has help of her group of friends, the hilarious evil-fighting team called "The Scooby Gang".
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Warehouse 13
Agent Pete Lattimer and Agent Myka Bering find themselves transferred to Warehouse 13, a massive, top-secret storage facility in South Dakota. This mysterious warehouse houses every supernatural artifact ever collected by the government. Their new job has them chasing down reports of supernatural activity in search of new artifacts to be safeguarded in the Warehouse
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Andromeda
Captain Dylan Hunt and his sentient warship Andromeda has been frozen in time for 300 years circling around the border of a black hole. For him the time of the Commonwealth was yesterday and not 300 years ago. He is rescued from the black hole by a salvage ship and its crew. They of course have no idea he is still alive and on board. They are only after the money the can get for the ship. The crew of the salvage ship is left for dead by their captain, and they ends up joining Captain Dylan Hunt on his quest to restore the Commonwealth and bring unity to the galaxy once again.
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Stargate Universe
The secret of the Stargate's ninth chevron is discovered. It opens a gate to the unmanned starship Destiny, an experiment launched by the Ancients hundreds of millennia ago. A team of explorers from Earth, led by Dr. Nicolas Rush and Colonel Everett Young, are sent to investigate this starship. They get trapped on the ship, unable to change its programmed mission, and is forced to complete its original mission. They travel far out into the universe, in a distant galaxy, encountering new races and enemies.
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Dollhouse
Caroline has download her personality into cyber storage at some shady organization who rents out her body to the highest bidder. A new personality with the required skill set are uploaded to her body to complete whatever the mission requires. These missions can involve everything from sexual fantasy to high risk missions that requires assassin or spy type of personality and skills.
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The Orville
Ed Mercer is offered to be the captain of the spaceship Orville. This might be just what he needs to come out of the hard year he have had after he cough his wife in the bed with a blue alien. To captain an exploratory ship in Earth's interstellar Fleet and boldly go where no man have gone before, its a dream come true. Unfortunately the second officer that is appointed to his ship is his ex-wife.
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Eureka
Eureka is a small hidden town populated by America’s brightest scientists. They work cutting edge inventions and discoveries. Sadly for them, but funny for us, in their enthusiasm they tend to be forgetful about the safety surrounding their projects, which usually leads unnatural and hilarious chaos! Sheriff Jack Carter and his daughter accidentally stumbles upon Eureka, and Jack ends up being hired as the new sheriff in town. He got more than he bargained for when he has to deal with all the quirky geniuses living in Eureka and their crazy experiments.
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Angel
Angel is Buffys first boyfriend, and he is a vampire. He is to walk the earth with a soul, which destines him to a torturous life. He moved to L.A. after their breakup and sets up shop as a kind of supernatural private investigator.
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Battlestar Galactica
The Cylons returns and devastate the human population. Only a ragtag fleet of refugees defended by Commander Adama and his crew of the ship Battlestar Galactica and lead by President Laura Roslin. They are searching for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth, while they are doing their best to flee from the Cylon.
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Firefly
Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds, a former galactic war veteran, is the captain of the transport ship Serenity. He is kind of like Han Solo from Star Wars, a small time smuggler hiding behind his legal transport services. His crew consists of Zoe, his old war buddy and Wash, the pilot and Jayne Cobb, the muscle and Kaylee Frye, the mechanic and Simon Tam, the medic and River, Simon`s sister and Inara Serra, a courtesan and Shepherd Book, a preacher.Together they do any jobs, legal or illegal.They travels across the outskirts of outer space sparking up trouble wherever they go.
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Continuum
Kiera Cameron, a detective from the year 2077, finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future called Liber8. Kiera poses as a government agent and joins forces with police detective Carlos Fonnegra and teen genius Alec Sadler to capture the terrorists before they can alter the future. The future of 2077 is a dystopian one in which world governments have collapsed and corporations now dominate the planet.
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Killjoys
A trio of bounty hunters lives in a solar system ruled by a tyrannical class based corporation known as the company. They live hard, party all night, and they work for an Independent interplanetary organization of assassins and retrieval experts called R.A.C. People working for R.A.C. is known as Killjoys. Killjoys only follows one law and that is "The Warrant is all".
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Dark Matter
A spaceship out in the farthest reaches of space is on its way to a remote mining colony. Inside it has a crew of six people who has had their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The ship has a cargo bay full of weapons and the mining colony is about to become a war zone.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Sarah Connor destroyed the Terminator sent from the future to kill her 15 year-old son, John. Sarah and John are no alone and fugitives from the law. More enemies from the future and the present could attack at any moment. They get a fighting chance when a Terminator named Cameron arrives and want to help them.
Books like Farscape
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1)
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure as a rich man. Sadly Bob dies in an accident right after this, but luckily for him; he has payed for a service to freeze his brain until we have the technology to put it into a new body. However, when he wakes up a century later he discovers that dead people has been declared to be without right, and he now finds himself as the property of the state. As if that wasn't enough, he has been uploaded into a computer and ordered to be to be the controlling AI of an interstellar von Neumann probe that is tasked with searching for habitable planets to be colonized. If he declines, he'll be switched off. If he accepts, he becomes the main target of competing states with similar projects.
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Honor Harrington by David Weber
Commander Harrington has command of her first starship, the HMS Fearless. But political maneuvering by top leaders in the Manticoran navy has left her light cruiser outfitted with a half-baked experimental weapons system. Against all odds ,she still manages to do good in tactical war games. She's banish to a galactic backwater, Basilisk Station, and it soon proves to be a powder keg ready to burst. It's up to Harrington and the Fearless crew to thwart the aggressive plans of the Haven Republic.
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Animes like Farscape
Cowboy Bebop
Spike Spiegel is a bounty hunter. Together with his partners Jet Black, Faye Valentine , Edward and their dog Ein they hunt across the galaxy looking for any high bounty fugitives to bag.
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
The main character Major Motoko Kusanagi is a deadly cyborg and the squad leader of Section 9, the Japanese government's military unit tasked with fighting terrorism and cyber warfare. They have to fight the Laughing Man, a terrorist who orchestrated a kidnapping and extortion plot many years ago who has suddenly reappeared. Motoko and her squad are drawn into a deadly game where they have to use all their expertise to survive.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Peter Quill, A.K.A. Star-Lord, a self-proclaimed legendary outlaw, is on a mission to retrieve an ancient orb from a long destroyed civilisation. A the outlaw he is he manages to get a bounty on him for this mission and gets hunted by multiple parties. Ronan the Accuser is the main party after the orb, he wants it for the power he will gain from it. Star-Lord is forced to join forces with a team of unlikely criminals and bounty hunters to stop Ronan and save the day.
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