Babylon 5

With an audacious set- up ( a space station serving as the universe’s “last, best hope for peace”), an array of aliens later rivalled only by Farscape, all of them utterly bewitching, and a fascinating central mystery that played out in the kind of arc- plot only rarely seen on television in the mid’ 90s, Babylon 5 was one helluva show. It also had some of the greatest characters and situations in sci- fi history ( G’Kar and Londo’s relationship being the biggest highlight). Most of all, however: it had balls.