14. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003-2009)
Some questions were answered, while others were left up in the air, but as the survivors of the Cylon holocaust finally settled on the world they could call home — and the wounded Battlestar that carried them there flew into its cosmic funeral pyre — executive producer Ronald D. Moore’s sci-fi reinvention concluded with the same intelligence, grace, and kick-ass space battles that it started with. —Marc Bernardin
13. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994)
”All Good Things…” brought this über-successful extension of the Star Trek franchise to an end, and it did so in high style. Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) found himself skipping through time, visiting his loyal Enterprise crew at the beginning of their voyages together and, poignantly, joining them for one last old-age adventure. —Marc Bernardin
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