I so wish someone had the cash to do a hard SF show.
The problem with hard sci-fi is that the science is made up by people with liberal arts backgrounds. It usually doesn't survive first contact with a critical technical mind. So the answer is to deemphasize the science. Lots of alien makeup and exploding spaceship models does not shift the emphasis back, but do look cool. You have to make the science so advanced as to seem to be magic. That way you don't have to defend the tech and you can focus on the story. Series that don't try to explain the tech have a better chance of survival.