If You Liked Star Trek: Discovery, Watch These Next
Finished Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Star Trek: Discovery, most of them are sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Caprica(2010)
6.9DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that…
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2.Battlestar Galactica(2004)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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3.Star Trek: Picard(2020)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
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4.Krypton(2018)
7.1Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
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5.Halo(2022)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
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6.Defiance(2013)
6.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.
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7.Blade Runner: Black Lotus(2021)
7.1AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.
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8.Falling Skies(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
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…
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9.The Peripheral(2022)
7.6Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems…
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10.The 100(2014)
7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
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11.Another Life(2019)
6.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
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12.Raised by Wolves(2020)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
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13.The Witcher: Blood Origin(2022)
6.5Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
More than a thousand years before the world of The Witcher, seven outcasts in the elven world unite in a blood quest against an unstoppable power.
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14.War of the Worlds(2019)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left…
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15.The Expanse(2015)
8.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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16.Halo: The Fall of Reach(2015)
7.0AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Kidnapped as children and conscripted into a brutal military training and augmentation program, the Spartans were designed to be the ultimate weapon against chaos and insurgency—but when a dangerous alien alliance known as the Covenant declares war on humanity, the Spartans might be our only hope.
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17.Dune: Prophecy(2024)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.
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18.Impulse(2018)
7.6Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
16-year-old Henry Coles is an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry— unleashing a power she cannot control.
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19.Terminator Zero(2024)
7.0AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
A warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg.
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20.Humans(2015)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMysteryAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
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