It pains me when so much effort goes into many aspects of production but the script has so much throwaway uninteresting clichés.

Does somebody really look at these scripts and think "wow, this is excellent", or is it more "meh, this'll do... there's an audience who just wants neato space stuff and doesn't care about dialogue and story all that much".

Pathetically hackneyed clichés like "you and me, we're not so different" are interspersed with a modicum of an interesting storyline.

And that whole robot befriending Will thing.... that betrays so much internal consistency and logic, but gets worse even later on in the series.