Good Sci-Fi not invested with utopian crap that plagued STNG.
Babylon 5 also had the unique five year plot outline so you had character development of the people that wasn’t a wild twist or “oh boy, what can we do for a cliffhanger?”
The throwaway politician pining for the good old days to emperor.
The rebel wanting to free his people getting their independence AND trying to free their souls.
The obedient member of the Corps to the overthrow of the authoritarian state, both planetary government and Psi Corps controlling telepaths
The female alien who started the Membari war healing it in several different aspects, from mingling/bonding with humans in several ways and bringing peace personally and across the interstellar space