People keep telling me I should watch Battlestar Galactica... but I think it has a lot to live up to

Babylon 5 - terrible acting, occasionally dire direction and the CGI now looks very dated, but the story was good (gets a little fuzzy after they had to write an entire series after they'd re-writtn the series before on the premise that they'd not have another series)... but its edgy, its political, it's engaging

Firefly - good all round series, would have been excellent I think if they'd got a couple of seasons (unless Jos Weaden ran out of plot ideas and just got silly like he normally does)

Farscape - best sci-fi acting bar none, good plot and reasonable CGI, only occasionally did they get close enough to the henson made puppets to show they were made of rubber. good plots, very edgey at times...

Space Above and beyond - great fun, woefully under rated (though again bad acting - it seems typical of sci-fi)... good space battles

Stargate SG1... well, it had good effects... and... a bald guy with a shiney thing on his head... ok it was rubbish

So to be good enough it needs lots of great space battles, great plots, something a little more edgy that "we're americans in space aint it great" by way of plots, and decent acting... does it live up to those that came before?