@Cripplecreek
I've been hearing good things about The Expanse.
Yeah its a sci fi lovers dream. Its got a top notch story line, spectacular special effects, and its not over the top fiction. Its pretty solidly based in real and theoretically likely science.
Basically some 200 years in the future there is a 4 way civil war going on among mankind between Earth (Earthers) Mars (Martians) the asteroid belt (Belters) and the Outer Planets Alliance (The OPA) with an alien molecular life form (Proto molecule) transforming people and technology into something unknown and everybody trying to seize control of it to use it as a weapon.
Feminists love it because its got so many females in leadership roles but its not done to rub it in men's faces. Here's a preview of this week's episode with a couple of the Women in a diplomatic meeting. The indian woman is a UN official and she's a bitch.
http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/videos/the-expanse-sneak-peek-season-2-episode-9War crime by belters against inner planets refugees from last week's episode.
http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/videos/change-of-plansThe belters are starting to remind me of Palestinians.
http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/videos/loud-and-clearAlso unusual is the kind treatment of religion in the show. Most sci fi goes out of its way to bash religion but the expanse simply includes them. Mormons have been prominent in the show so far and even are building a generation ship and planning to leave the solar system.
They don;t have warp drive, phasers, or transporters. They fight it out with projectile weapons at close quarters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhKWeGXduzs