In what way(s)?
The flagrant sexism and inconsistency is definitely something that dates the show badly. But how is it "silly"?
TNG hasn't aged well at all.
How so? Its visuals hold up great and aren't excessively splattered on screen. Or do you mean storylines? I can think of a few, but the
whole series?
It's aged well for me as well. I didn't really get into it until they brought in their own starship; reviewing older episodes later on I'll admit I missed out, but the days with the Defiant are still definitive.
Voyager's not very good and neither
Seasons 1-3 are a real mixed bag and largely paint-by-numbers. Add in too many big epic events for characters we know nothing about - e.g. Harry Kim dying and being replaced by some treknobabble alternate world double that stays for the next six years or whatever. If TNG had jokes back in the day where "Data was the most human", VOY outdoes that claim by a country mile. Or parsec, how many country miles are in one of those? Oh okay,
twelve...
are seasons 1-3 of Enterprise.
Despite enough franchise burnout that they turned to the trope of "prequel" (BSG did the same thing and it didn't last very long either), the Xindi were an interesting idea, but the prequel format-- we all know everything would turn out as expected and I don't recall an alternative timeline at the end of their temporal cold war. Just being a prequel made it difficult, and stuff like "Reed alert" was just lame. Season 4 was loaded with fanservice, but prequels are generally aimed at fans to begin with. Just my two cents, each of Trek's outings has something that will be adored by someone and that's not a bad thing.
I dislike the Kelvinverse movies,
The alternate timeline idea was great on paper. Making the characters shallow caricatures was not. That said, "Beyond" is a surprisingly strong outing. But the first Kelvin movie was just a nostalgia trip and STID took all the wrong things about nostalgia trips and made them worse.
like Discovery and Picard. I loathe Lower Decks.
DSC had some good individual scenes, Tilly (and Killy) were awesome, I like the idea of Lorca being a mirror plant (but, again, too soon in the show's run for this to have any real payoff except 'limpy fanservice exploit') ,Mudd was nicely reinvented (so for me, fanservice that worked marvels)
Seven as the Queen was cool, I sorta see what they were trying to do with Picard and the one character who's the alcoholic and drug user (who's well-acted, the casting for both shows has been pretty great)... Hugh was awesome. But as a whole the sequel and character focus on Picard himself didn't do much, and the finale felt needlessly hokey, particularly with the contrived android body but in retrospect that sorta fits into some of PIC's themes too in a way or two... YMMV, next week I might give it another go and find a different perspective. Can't have too many of those...
But the bulk of these shows did little for me and some go so far over the top. The visuals being dank in teal/orange is just too over the top as well, which is amazing considering more and more shows have done the teal/orange puke palette since the early-2000s. (To be fair, it's easier to blend in CGI but the same colors are also used to simulate monochrome b/w and why shows like "All in the Family" got criticized for looking so dull. But that show used the palette because they wanted to do b/w and were told by the network they had to film it in color. Didn't stop the critics back in the day but they had a greater artistic reason for doing so. Makes one wonder how the show would be perceived if everyone and the sets were more realistic than dull brown/blue...
I enjoyed LD from the start. A few bad moments but no bad stories. I sorta gravitate to off-the-wall character combinations and LD is chock full of them. The finale floored me with surprises that
worked as well as being completely unexpected. Should have been 15 minutes longer too in order to appreciate it that much more. Being full color palette helps a lot as well. Of course, it's an animated show so it'd look even more goofy if it was teal/orange...
I've everything released on DVD and Bluray. I'll get whatever else comes out.
Even Lower Decks...
That's cool.
