Star Trek was full of just-so stories of cleverness and technobabble. It was good TV for a kid, and was almost always optimistic. The good guys didn't really lose, all-told. Good chunks of worldbuilding just kinda didn't work for me.
The show that actually explored the themes you want to mention (ignoring Lexx and Red Dwarf and Doctor Who, because they were rather silly) would be Babylon 5.
Characters lose and stay lost, characters keep fighting against all odds, sometimes even staying the hand of fate. Bad things happen to good people for no reason, and bad people have good fortune and sometimes redemption. Hell, the show had one of the first blatant explorations of lesbian relationships in broadcast television.
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Star Trek was full of just-so stories of cleverness and technobabble. It was good TV for a kid, and was almost always optimistic. The good guys didn't really lose, all-told. Good chunks of worldbuilding just kinda didn't work for me.
The show that actually explored the themes you want to mention (ignoring Lexx and Red Dwarf and Doctor Who, because they were rather silly) would be Babylon 5.
Characters lose and stay lost, characters keep fighting against all odds, sometimes even staying the hand of fate. Bad things happen to good people for no reason, and bad people have good fortune and sometimes redemption. Hell, the show had one of the first blatant explorations of lesbian relationships in broadcast television.
Go watch that.