Apple TV's five-season drama For All Mankind is being highlighted as a worthy successor to Battlestar Galactica, sharing that show's blend of political intrigue, moral complexity and human drama set against a science-fiction backdrop. Co-developed in part by Battlestar Galactica writer Ronald D. Moore, the series has earned a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score and has grown from a NASA-focused alternate-history drama into an ambitious, large-scale space opera.

The series imagines an alternate timeline in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon in 1969, triggering a Space Race that runs for decades rather than winding down. Each season leaps forward roughly ten years, showing lunar bases becoming permanent settlements and, by the fifth season, Mars supporting a generation born and raised off-Earth. Like Battlestar Galactica, the show uses its speculative setting to explore governance, loss and moral compromise, while also engaging with contemporary issues such as automation, immigration, inequality, nationalism and the tension between governments and private industry.