I can recommend B5, perhaps you should give it a try. One thing is a bit annoying about B5 and this is the very last episode. It is just weird and confusing.
It was a 5 season plot line. Then Warner Brothers was going to cancel at the end of S4, so JMS hurried up the plot (boo hiss). Then WB saw the fanbase and money, and relented so there was a S5 - but its structure is non-ideal.
One of the nice things about B5 is that there are surprises (unlike Star Dreck). It also takes serious account of real-world things such as religion (even though JMS is athiest), politics, cultures, workers (i.e. not just officers on the bridge), the underpriviledged and dropouts, crime and criminals, and characters change over time.
The Bab5 ending was absolutely philosophical in nature; "What happens when mankind grows up enough to tell God to 'Stop interfering and let us grow up to be ourselves?' " The rest of the show was the story of those events leading up to that.
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It was ALSO much more hopeful than most of what has happened since; our storytelling has grown exponentially darker and less hopeful as darker elments have permeated our leadership and society.
JMS saw the trend towards 12-minute episodic pablum 20 years before it started happening, and wanted to do some epic storytelling while it was still possible to get it distributed. He wasn't far off in his estimates, either; WB tried to cancel it early even though they'd promised him free reign as long as the show didn't absolutely tank.
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Bab5 was one of our last great tales of hope; almost everything since has instead sold fear.
Rick Berman TRIED to do the same thing with DS9, but he wasn't half as smart as JMS. If he had been, he would have known there was no way in hell he'd get the TNG fanbase on his side after murdering TNG nearly at the peak of its popularity with signed contracts for another 2 years. Even though he had Gene's blessing for the project, it looked like he was just waiting for Roddenberry to die so he could kill TNG while the body was still warm.
The bitch part is that they had the resources AVAILABLE from production to tackle both shows at the same time; the "All Good Things" story arc had already been rough-drafted in workable 1 and 2 season plotlines, much of it from Roddenberry's own fevered brow and would have mostly tended to itself, as Roddenberry intended.
In THAT respect, appearances were absolutely the truth; Berman didn't want to divide his attention between the two, even for a season. He earned the backlash he got; DS9 didn't find a place in my heart until long after, in syndication.
Part of me still wants to know about Garek's past, and how Nerys faired with the weight of history squarely on her shoulders, and what happened with The Traveler.
Yeah, I know these stories are told in the vast fiction library that has grown since the show; but most of that "writing" isn't even as good as Berman's own work, which I felt was "tol'able at best".
mnem
When deciding between two arguments, look for the one selling fear and hate, then choose the one selling hope.