What it lacked was; being in SPACE! With the ships. Which were awesome mobile megastructures. The sight of future technology everywhere. Alien worlds! It turned into the cheapest of spinoffs using the same gimmick over and over. Flying motorcycles, for chrissake. All taking place on a world I had much less fascination with, or at least a parody of it where the really strange things they did never got them surrounded by a mob and dragged off to government laboratories. The future was gone.
