Things I'd like to see more of in modern sci-fi:

* Smaller problems, with lower stakes. Not everything has to be end-of-the-world (or galaxy, or universe.) Maybe we have a run-in with some obnoxious kids who happen to be the rebellious children of important dignitaries. Maybe an alien organism is accidentally brought aboard that is now multiplying like crazy and threatening to eat the grain we're transporting. That could be fun, too! Also, it's not a video game, the bad guys don't have to get progressively bigger, badder, and harder to defeat.

* More self-contained stories. TV shows are not just movies in installments. You can tell different kinds of stories! Besides, it's exhausting watching characters rush from one season long crisis right into another. Don't these people ever have regular days? Boring days?

* More human interest stories that don't center around how the characters have so much baggage and terrible things keep happening to them. What if your character just has a dog? A nice dog, who is never threatened or in danger. She's not his last shred of family after his home planet was destroyed. She's just a good girl who's happy to see him at the end of the day, and his neighbor takes her to the holo-dog park when he's on away missions.

* More optimism. More joy. More good guys winning just because they're the good guys. Also, more light - like literally, why is the future so dark? Did lightbulbs go extinct?

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.