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Least favorite: Lower Decks.
There are genuinely a few good episodes of a show that I dislike from the ground up. I haven't seen them all though.

Most favorite: TNG
Some of the bad episodes are pretty bad though I can almost always find one thing of interest in each.
 
Discovery season 1, I disliked the heavy use of subtitled Klingon, but I do applaud that they went to the effort to use the 'real' Klingon language as created by Marc Okrand. That was rarely done in the previous series, it was mostly gibberish mixed with some existing words.

My favourite detail is that on T'Kuvma's ship there is a a version of Kahless's Story of the Promise from TNG engraved on the floor. Written in actual Klingon language, not just Klingon letters applied to English.

https://klingon.wiki/En/SarcophagusPlinth
 
Going to go a little further... going to give all series a plus and minus.

PLUS :hugegrin:
TOS: I really enjoy the interplay between the detached and logical Spock and the far more emotional Bones.
TNG: Of all the series, I still think this one has the highest general entertainment and enjoyment factor.
DS9: No Trek did character development better. And instead of shuffling struggling characters to the background, it worked to make them more viable.
VOY: Voyager had an incredibly charismatic cast, allowing it to be the Trek equivalent of comfort food.
ENT: Well... it had some good episodes. And was willing to reinvent itself.
DIS: A tall and polite alien of a prey species... an ensign on the spectrum... a crazy empress turned spy... a completely irascible scientist and his doctor boyfriend... a version of Captain Pike so awesome he got his own spinoff... this one had a lot of intriguing characters.
LD: This show's sense of humor was so zany, it was like reading one of my own fanfiction parodies.
PIC: I don't think any Trek managed to be as touching as this one. Of all the times Trek has made me cry, probably half of them were from this show.
PRO: Yes, it's colorful and kid friendly... but it's also intelligent and more important, it's legit Trek.
SNW: I think that with nu Trek, there was a lot of dart throwing, trying to find the show that would have the fun of TOS, the intelligence of TNG, and the character development of DS9. Here, they mostly succeeded.

MINUS :angryrazz:
TOS: It had some cheesy FX... also, I think Kirk might have inadvertently caused a few civilizations to go extinct.
TNG: The characters were a bit static, some of them weren't used as effectively as others.
DS9: Had some depressing endings.
VOY: The showrunners were sloppier than a room full of teen-agers and two-year-olds. Harry's non-promotion was but one symptom of this malady.
ENT: No show trashed its potential more thoroughly, not even Voyager. It used the same 23rd century tech and weapons as TOS, and instead of being about humanity slowly working toward building the Federation, it featured the temporal cold war, and made the Federation an inevitability before it existed.
DIS: Despite the engaging characters, I just couldn't get into this one.
LD: Some of the characters' personalities can get... grating sometimes. Especially Mariner.
PIC: It took us into some dark places, and kept us there for a long time. The Trek-verse seemed almost dystopian at times.
PRO: The tech increase seems a little jarring. Basically, with proto drive and quantum slipstream drive, ships can cover Voyager's journey in almost no time.
SNW: Has to struggle against canon sometimes, most notably in terms of Spock's assorted relationships.
 
"Code of Honor

At least it's the only episode of any Trek spin-off series to feature a composer from the original 1966 series (Fred Steiner). Too bad he was totally squandered on it...
 
I didn't like that one of the first things Picard did was kill off Dahj's boyfriend. Killing off the black guy right up front isn't a good look. At the very least, if they had to kill him off, he didn't have to be black.

I liked when Enterprise revealed that the Romulans had double-agents operating on Vulcan, in high positions of influence. It's exactly the type of thing they would do.
 
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Why? People of every color die every day.
Let's not get into this. I was at a few Black Lives Matter rallies in 2020 and don't even... I'm not even going to finish this post.

It's inviting things to go way off topic and, frankly, you fucking know it.
 
Let's not get into this. I was at a few Black Lives Matter rallies in 2020 and don't even... I'm not even going to finish this post.

Then why even bring it up? I'm sure the young man was delighted to get an acting job, even if it is short, in what was pitched as a prestige drama.

The character was written to die long before any actor was cast to play it. So, going forward, are we supposed to take opportunities away from minority actors if the character happens to meet an unfortunate end early on?
 
Then why even bring it up? I'm sure the young man was delighted to get an acting job, even if it is short, in what was pitched as a prestige drama.

The character was written to die long before any actor was cast to play it. So, going forward, are we supposed to take opportunities away from minority actors if the character happens to meet an unfortunate end early on?
The OP asked for one thing I didn't like about my favorite Trek show and I said. That's why. Don't like it? Not my problem.
 
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My least favorite show is Discovery, but I think as a cast they really do love spending time together. The Commodore I sense seeing the cast at conventions is this is a tightly knit group and Green is a true leader both in front of and behind the camera.

My least favorite Season is probably Season 2 of Picard, but the first two episodes were great and they got James Callis for a role. The last time I saw him was Battlestar Galactica.

My least favorite character I will go back to the classic series and say Chakotay, but his little arc with Seska was always enjoyable and Resolutions is an episode I really like.
 
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My least favorite show is Discovery, but I think as a cast they really do love spending time together. The Commodore I sense seeing the cast at conventions is this is a tightly knit group and Green is a true leader both in front of and behind the camera.

My least favorite Season is probably Season 2 of Picard, but the first two episodes were great and they got James Callis for a role. The last time I saw him was Battlestar Galactica.

My least favorite character I will go back to the classic series and say Chakotay, but his little arc with Seska was always enjoyable and Resolutions is an episode I really like.

I agree with your first two least, they are my favourite leasts of all time.

As to the third.. my least favourite character of all time is Kes. Chak is just dull.
 
I agree with your first two least, they are my favourite leasts of all time.

As to the third.. my least favourite character of all time is Kes. Chak is just dull.

I could never hate Kes because two of my favorite episodes of the series are Warlord and Before and After. I did think that relationship with Neelix was a waste though.
 
"ACQUISITION", ENT season 1... it brought back the unique weapon, the Ferengi energy whip. And it looked and was used better.
 
Something positive about my least favourite Trek show? Its ending credits, I guess.

(Haven't decided yet which show 'my least favourite Trek show' would be).
 
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