I did a bit of a personal ranking for myself of the new series... I won't bother anyone with the details, but Discovery season 2 and 4 came out on top.
If I had to choose 20 episodes of all of Trek to introduce people to it, the last 3 episodes of season 4 would be an entry as one big tv movie.
Yeah. I just did a DISCO rewatch as well, and though I can pick a nit here and there, the Rosetta > Species 10-C > Coming Home arc is really well done.
The ones that stood out for me on rewatch were:
1. Context is For Kings, S1, E3
2. Choose Your Pain, S1, E5
3. Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad, S1, E7.
4. Into the Forest I Go, S1, E9
5. New Eden, S2, E2
6. If Memory Serves, S2, E8
7. Through The Valley of Shadows, S2, E12
8. People of Earth, S3, E3
9. Forget Me Not, S3, E4
10. Die Trying, S3, E5
11. But To Connect, S4, E7
12. Rosetta, S4, E11
13. Species 10-C, S4, E12
14. Coming Home, S4, E13
If I had to expand to 20? Many more contenders than 6.
S1:
The War Without, The War Within
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Despite Yourself
The Wolf Inside
Lethe
The Vulcan Hello/Battle at the Binary Stars
S2:
Brother
Point of Light
An Obol For Charon
The Sound of Thunder
The Red Angel
S3:
That Hope Is You, Part I
Unification III
Terra Firma Parts I & II
OK, I am already at 30.