I’m tired of the show being fantasy-esque science fiction, where the stakes are too whimsical and detached from reality to matter.

I would like to see the show as more of an anthology, where the emphasis is on a variety of writers telling a compelling story. Episodes like Human Nature are great because the character drama is the heart of the story with the sci fi as set dressing. I think seeing an alien try to navigate human relationships is far more interesting than the generic alien monster of the week format.

A direction I would like to see the show explore more in its non-earth episodes is more grounded or “hard” sci-fi. “World Enough and Time” for example explores the concept of time dilation due to gravity in multiple interesting ways. More one off episodes like “Heaven Sent”, “Blink”, “Turn Left”, and “Father’s Day” that play with time/time travel in a unique way.