10 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Set In Space

The granddaddy of them all: Star Trek: The Original Series! Nothing else could feasibly challenge Kirk and Spock on a list of the best TV shows set in space. Star Trek: TOS practically gave birth to the majority of shows on this list, and it's hard to think how different science-fiction TV would be without Gene Roddenberry's creation.

Airing from 1966 to 1969 with three seasons and eighty episodes, the show follows the adventures of Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones and more aboard the USS Enterprise. The show made household names out of its lead actors, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, and their legacy is still highly influential today as they are seen as the Kings of the science-fiction genre. The crew of the NCC-1701 remained relevant years after the show ended with six motion picture films from 1979 to 1991, including the famous Wrath of Khan.

In 2009, the characters were reimagined with a new cast portraying the iconic roles in a successful trilogy of films from J.J Abrams, and thus proving that Kirk and Spock will forever be popular idols.

Now that we've concluded this list of the best TV shows set in space, there could be nothing more fitting than to let Kirk's famous speech see us of:

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."