I married a rocket scientist, but even before we met I had been a fan of certain science fiction shows.  Somehow I had never seen Babylon 5 though, until my dh used his Christmas gift cards to purchase the DVD set of all 5 seasons of Babylon 5.  At first I resisted... I admit, I was sucked into the Star Trek universe, and it was hard to make the shift over to another creator's perspective of the future.  But I was glad I did.  Where Star Trek avoided religion and took idealistic yet relativistic perspectives on important issues, Babylon 5 dives right into these, exploring the conflict of the human heart with itself (as the creator J. Michael Straczynski mentioned, following the advice of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner.  Apparently Straczynski grew up Catholic, though is now an atheist.  You would never guess that from his respectful treatment of faith on the show, including the presence of Catholic clergy. 

There was "one moment of beauty" in one episode that really struck me as I watched.  The captain of the Babylon 5 space station was somewhat reluctantly being mentored by an angelic alien of few words called a Vorlon, and during one of their mentoring sessions, the Vorlon takes the captain to a hidden area behind a panel in some hallway and sends him inside, closing the panel behind him.  He has to crouch and crawl his way in past shadowy piles of stuff until he finally finds a robed and hooded man sitting on the far side.  He silently pushes a dish toward the captain, apparently begging for money.  This however is the 2100s, it's not like people carry pocket change anymore.  All he has to give is a command bar off his uniform.  He places it in the dish, and all at once the shadowy piles of stuff around the area sit up and reveal they are actually robed and hooded figures.  Then they begin to sing. 

And what are they singing?  The introit for Christmas Day, Puer natus est nobis. 

Talk about finding Gregorian Chant in an unexpected place... an epsiode of 1990s sci-fi series.  Cool.