Re: Firefly--or is it Serenity?
Back before SciFi got too weird I read it voraciously. I loved those descriptions, but the one story I remember well, besides the Jules Verne stuff, was about a guy who was mining thorium on an asteroid. He was waiting for a resupply rocket which also took back what he had mined.
He lived in a cave and got along quite well with his robots, who did pretty much everything.
Looked like a good life, really.
Startrek in it's first iteration was great. After that it simply got ridiculous.
Although a great many people enjoyed that and other SciFi stuff and continue to. I'm clearly no judge of it.