Sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to over the next year and a half. Streaming platforms are pouring money into genre television right now, and the lineup stretching from late 2026 into 2027 mixes beloved franchises with some genuinely ambitious new adaptations. Space epics, bleak futures, cyberpunk noir, there’s something coming for pretty much every flavour of sci-fi fan.
Star Trek remains the anchor of the genre right now, arguably having one of its best runs in decades. Strange New Worlds is back for another season, and it’s sticking to what’s worked: episodic exploration, standalone stories with real weight, and the kind of character work that made the crew of the Enterprise worth following in the first place. It’s managed something tricky, recapturing that old-school Trek optimism without feeling dated, and it’s pulling in new viewers along with longtime fans. Paramount clearly isn’t done expanding the universe either, with Starfleet Academy carrying things further into 2027.
Netflix, meanwhile, still has to deliver on the promise of 3 Body Problem. The first season took on one of the denser science-fiction novels out there and mostly stuck the landing, so expectations for season two are high. With first contact edging closer, the story should only get bigger. Bigger ideas, bigger scale, and the kind of ambitious, brain-bending plotting that television rarely even attempts. If season one was the setup, this is where things are supposed to actually take off.
Apple TV+ might be sitting on the biggest wildcard of the bunch with Neuromancer. William Gibson’s novel more or less invented cyberpunk as we know it, you can trace its fingerprints through The Matrix, Cyberpunk 2077, all of it. Adapting something that foundational is no small task, but what’s leaked out so far suggests Apple is going all in, aiming for something stylish and faithful, full of hackers, rogue AI, and corporate scheming. For readers who’ve followed the genre for years, this might be the single most-anticipated new series on the list.
Blade Runner 2099 is also making its way to TV, picking up decades after 2049. It’s stepping into one of sci-fi’s most fully realised worlds, where the boundary between human and replicant keeps getting harder to pin down. The bar is set high, but this franchise has never really been about action. It’s always leaned on mood, mystery, and the bigger questions underneath, which should translate well to a slower, more deliberate TV format.
Comic fans aren’t being left out either. HBO’s Lanterns is shaping up as a darker spin on the Green Lantern mythos, cosmic-scale stakes wrapped around what’s been pitched as a detective story set in space. Over at Disney, Vision Quest picks up the White Vision thread from WandaVision, digging into questions of identity, memory, and artificial consciousness through one of Marvel’s more interesting characters. Both have enough of a sci-fi backbone that they could pull in viewers who don’t normally watch superhero shows.
Amazon’s got skin in the game too, with Vought Rising, a prequel to The Boys that heads back to the 1950s to dig into how Vought Corporation got so twisted in the first place. It’s superhero-adjacent at its core, but between the alternate history, the genetic experimentation angle, and the sharp satire, it should land fine with sci-fi viewers who like their entertainment with an edge.
Add it all up, and the stretch from now through 2027 could end up being one of the strongest periods for sci-fi television in years. From the hopeful, exploratory tone of Star Trek to the neon-soaked dread of Neuromancer and Blade Runner, there’s no shortage of reasons to keep those streaming subscriptions running. Like a stacked weekend of sports, there’s something here for nearly everyone, and probably a few future classics hiding in the mix.
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That sci-fi look and feel isn’t just for TV, either. If you’re into the whole galactic aesthetic, there are plenty of space-themed slots out there built around planetary exploration and alien worlds. Starburst is the one everyone points to first, those expanding wilds and the synth-heavy cosmic soundtrack fit right in with the mood of something like Dark Matter.
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