TOS -> TNG -> DS9 -> VOY
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"
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I wouldn't call TNG a spin-off of TOS because there was an 18 year gap between the two programs, and there were no characters from TOS who had a prominent role in TNG at the beginning, as McCoy has a cameo, and Spock and Scotty didn't appear until Seasons 5 and 6.
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McCoy was on the first episode of TNG (as "The Admiral," bringing up Vulcans)
Picard was on the first episode of DS9
DS9 and crew were on the first episode of VOY
It's textbook.
And Zephram Cochrane was in the first episode of Enterprise, linking it to both the Next Generation and the original series.
Technically speaking, SNW also keeps to this, because of Pike and Una's appearances on DSC...
That's right!
I agree.
But to clarify, I was positing that VOY is the spin-off of a spin-off (DS9) of a spin-off of TOS (TNG), for the reasons I stated involving passing the torch, from each series to the next. That's why I stopped there in that particular progression.
All In The Family > Maude > Good Times > The Jeffersons > Checking In > Archie Bunker's Place > Gloria > 704 Hauser
I just had a thought: How much time has passed between DSC's Such Sweet Sorrow (pre-time jump) and the beginning of SNW? It's been a year or two, hasn't it?
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It's 2259, so a year or less later
I Love Lucy > Star Trek > The Orville 
That's pop culture referencing even I stand in awe of. Well done. (*Slow clap*)
Don't even THINK about mentioning Tommy Westphall. 
That wins one Travolta sibling.
What's sad is that I did it from memory. Wikipedia just told me the order in which they were released.