Stargate
Farscape
Babylon 5
Andromeda
Firefly
I swear their must be a pattern... some traits common to all of them. I seem to little or no interest in Startrek, or the expanded universe of Star Wars. But Stargate? Farscape? Firefly? Something there...
Also: I think that a lot can be said from second episodes. First episode introduces, but second one is where the creators want to go.
Farscape's second episode has the ship crashing on a planet of 20th century technology aliens, very similar to humans. Puts the main character on the wrong end of a first contact situation - it's him with the other (much more alien) people on his crew that are the aliens.
Firefly has the Train Job, which introduces their life of crime and their sense of morals.
Andromeda has the ship landing on a station where the decendants of High Guard families--all dying young from radiation poisoning--have developed a Lord of the Flies-ish culture based along the perverted remains of High Guard protocols. Surviving for generation after generation against brutal attacks by other races, they wait for the coming of the High Guard. The captain is, in fact, time-frozen High Guard, and is seen as a messiah by the children, leading to the Day of Lightning... which is when the children man and fly off in slipfighters armed with nova bombs to destroy the star systems of all their enemies... Very interesting, with Dylan trying not to abuse his power as messiah while keeping the fanatical children from doing anything horrible. There are so many moral questions raised in the episode, and I love it.
*cough*
Anyway.
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