Now that the third season of DSC is done, and we're probably looking at a break for most of 2021, here's how I rate it season-by-season. Not including Short Treks because that's really just a collection of short films.
1) Picard, Season 1 --> 9
2) Discovery, Season 1 --> 8.5
3) Discovery, Season 2 --> 8.5
4) Discovery, Season 3 --> 8
5) Lower Decks, Season 1 --> 7
These reflect how I feel about the seasons as a whole instead of just the raw averages of the episodes in them. Because sometimes a season can be more or less than the sum of its parts. And my final evaluation of the seasons should reflect that.
And I'm going to judge them all by the same standard, just so the numbers actually mean something. I had different criteria for Lower Decks episodes during the season as it was airing (i.e. How well did the jokes land?), but I want ratings I can apply universally when comparing the different seasons of different series directly with each other.