Sci FI Series

For the moment I'll discount the most important Sci Fi series, in terms of Real World Impact which is of course Star Trek the Original Series.

Star Trek franchise:

1. Star Trek the Next Generation: A handpicked crew of professionals explores the Universe using teleporter technology from the mobile home base Enterprise
2. Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Far away just on the border of logistical support a mixed crew of humans and aliens lives together on a station that is a little more important than you'd guess at first.
3. Star Trek Voyager: A disparate group of people find themselves lost in Deep Space and are forced to learn to cooperate in order to make their way back.
4. Star Trek Enterprise: A handpicked crew of professionals explores the Universe using teleporter technology from the mobile home base Enterprise only a few hundred years earlier in a Universe with dozens of races that apparently become extinct in between Enterprise, ST TOS and ST TNG.
   

I'm actually uncertain as to the chronological order of DS9 and Voyager. They aired at the same time in the Netherlands and were in direct competition but for the fact that Voyager was also on BBC2 in another time slot. But that's not the point.
Here's the point (note that you didn't even have to scroll yet):

1. Stargate 1: A handpicked crew of professionals explores the Universe using teleporter technology from their stationary Stargate facility on Earth.
2. Stargate: Atlantis: Nine: Far away just on the border of logistical support a mixed crew of humans and aliens lives together on a station that is a little more important than you'd guess at first.
3. Stargate Universe: (upcoming) A disparate group of people find themselves lost in Deep Space and are forced to learn to cooperate in order to make their way back.

Now I never was a fan of the original SG1: series as a result of me not being impressed by the movie and a little taken aback by the entire McGuyver cast being transplanted in pretty much the same roles into SG1, but it had an impressive ten year run that earns my respect. I hear good things about Atlantis too but have never seen it. Still hoping I will though. But really somewhere along the line they hired maybe one too many former Star Trek people you think?
We'll know if the next reiteration of the franchise involves a Stargate #0: taking place prior to SG1:

The similarities don't end there. Both franchises have had several computer games made from them though here Star Trek does decidedly better. For instance right now development of Star Trek Online is doing rather well by all reports whereas the Developer of Stargate Online needs to find new funding guarantees before August 16th or lose the License.

SG: Universe while being a Voyager rip off at the surface claims to be more influenced by series like Firefly (good thing imo) more than Voyager or Battlestar Galactica. The latter's camera work is mentioned as something to emulate. Personally I hope they go for Firefly's higher level of subtlety in that regard. I.e. that show started the whole "unsteady" steadycam effect. While you hardly notice it in Firefly it adds a lot to the immersion really. Galactica's style is dramatic but also more ostentatious and (for me anyway) often distracting. I'm not a fan lapping up everything with the Galactica stamp on it though I do like the series. The individual episode writing is below par in my opinion and a lot more could have been done with the civilian element than has been done in the series (I'm currently watching the early stages of the third season btw).

Anyway, SG: Universe might be an interesting series to come of the Lost in Space / Voyager / Battlestar Galactica / variety. I wish they'd put out a more Firefly-esque series though. Both in terms of "people making a living in space" and in terms of great dialogue and overall writing, not too mention acting. Grrrr, why the hell did they ever kill that show so soon?