5 Greatest Sci-Fi Miniseries From the 1990s, Ranked

Those shifts created the conditions for the first wave of genuinely serialized science fiction on American television. Babylon 5, which J. Michael Straczynski had conceived as a single five-year narrative arc and plotted in full before a frame was shot, debuted its pilot in 1993. Deep Space Nine, premiering the same year, broke from the episodic reset-button format that Star Trek had used since its inception and introduced ongoing character arcs and multi-episode story threads. Even The X-Files, arguably the most successful sci-fi series in the 1990s, mixed monster-of-the-week episodes with a serialized mythology. As studios recognized that audiences would follow a continuing story across seasons, sci-fi miniseries became rarer in the 1990s, even though a handful of noteworthy titles exist.








