What I'd like to see in a sci-fi series.

While useless, it is sometimes fun to write down exactly what one desires out of entertainment. No series will ever live up to all your desires, but thats not the point.

First of all, there needs to be a balance between drama and having fun. Too many series focus on only drama, and end up very bleak and harsh. This is important to all series, and needs to be there before we even add elements of sci-fi.

I would like starships and energy weapons, but they need to be different enough from other series. Weapons that effect larger areas of space, providing indirect fire, might be fun to experiment with. If infantry combat occurs, they at least need armored spacesuits. Captains and higher ups do not go on infantry missions, period.

Multiple species that are more than humans with funny knobs. Hard to do on a small budget, you might say, but they could at least try.

Sadly, to get all this and decent actors, I would have to wait for eternity. Science Fiction books are still available, though, and I have yet to exhaust the wierd world of anime, so its not a big deal.