Star Trek: Discovery

Series Similar to Star Trek: Discovery

If you enjoyed Star Trek: Discovery, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Star Trek: Picard

   2020 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, also on Paramount+.

   The series is set 20 years after Jean-Luc Picard's last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), and follows him in the next chapter of his life.

2. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.9).

   Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

3. The Peripheral

   2022 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher, a woman in a near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. Flynne discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality — and the dark future of her own.

4. Primeval

   2007 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton

5. Raised by Wolves

   2020 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   After Earth is torn apart by religious differences and the human race teeters on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Raised by Wolves follows Mother and Father as they attempt to raise human children in this mysterious virgin land, a treacherous and difficult task that's jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans. As the androids make contact with this zealous and dangerous people, they struggle to control the beliefs of their fiercely self-determining children.

6. Sanctuary

   2008 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population and a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans.Along with her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, her quirky tech wiz Henry and her fearless daughter Ashley, Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.

7. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity's last chance to escape from Earth's impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems…

8. 12 Monkeys

   2015 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   Inspired by the classic blockbuster film, which commemorated its 20th anniversary in 2015, 12 Monkeys explores the provocative story of a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

9. Battlestar Galactica

   2003 · Drama, Science-Fiction, War · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The world ended with no warning, and all that was left… was hope.A truce between the humans of the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons—intelligent robots designed by humankind—lasts for 40 tense and silent years. Battlestar Galactica picks up just as the Cylons commit mass genocide against humanity. Only the Battlestar Galactica (an old warship about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum) and those souls fortunate enough to be aboard other starships were able to survive the attack. In the aftermath, the Galactica's commanding officer, William Adama, finds himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race—fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government results in the succession of the Secretary of Education, Laura Roslin, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, the Galactica travels through uncharted space in hopes of finding the mythical, lost 13th colony—Earth.

10. 1883

    2021 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended89% match

    Recommended for similar Adventure profile, highly rated (8.8), also on Paramount+.

    1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.