Your ranking of the Star Trek series's!

[seti alpha]

DS9 - I loved the stations stationary nature, allowing a much deeper dive into the featured stuff like Bajorans and Cardassians than we could get on a ship-board show where we get 45 minutes to introduce and develop a race or culture or world and then bam, next episode we are going to be 70 light years away…. great setting, characters and, once it got into the Dominion arc, gripping storylines.

LD - I love how it had fun *with* Trek and all it’s quirks but never seemed to be laughing *at* it (or its fans).

TOS - plenty of stuff didn’t age well, but this is where it all came from, so, respect is earned.

SNW - a few silly episodes every now and then, but even my beloved DS9 had ‘run along home.’

ENT - I wanted more from the writing, particularly for anyone not named Archer, T’Pol or Trip, but it had some cool stuff, and is one of the few I can rewatch without a ton of fast-forwarding or skipping entire episodes.

PRO - it was for kids, so I gritted my teeth and ignored the slime dude, and focused on how cool it was to have a Tellarite, a Brikar and a Medusan on the crew.

TNG - also didn’t age well, IMO, and not generally rewatchable for me, except for favorite episodes like Darmok. Still, like TOS, it established a ton of great stuff that makes it foundational.

SFA - hard to place, since it’s barely out of infancy. Still, freshman year is over and we still don’t really know who Genesis is? I want to like it more than this, but it’s fighting me.

DISC - a problem I have with many shows is a knee-jerk contrarian nature that results in me liking ‘lower decks’ type characters and resenting any character that i feel like the writers are shoving in my face. I would have liked more development of Owo, Detmer and Airam, for instance, and about 93% less Michael Burnham. Every time she defied orders and the story bent over backwards to make everyone else wrong and her right, I wanted Saru to snap and toss her out an airlock.

VOY - I didn’t forget this one, I just didn’t like it.

 

[seti alpha]

Eh, I did forget PIC, but it would have gone at or near the end anyway, for the same reasons as Discovery. I liked Soji and Captain Rios and by season 2, Jurati. I even liked Elnor and the Romulan bad brother, but pfft, gotta write them all off so we can catch up on what everyone Picard’s ever served with is doing. I’m happy for all the folk that wanted to see them all again, but I am that nut who wanted to see Rios, Soji, Elnor, Jurati, etc form the backbone of a new crew.

 

[Admiral Archer]

STRANGE NEW WORLDS
THE NEXT GENERATION
THE ORIGINAL SERIES
PICARD
DISCOVERY
LOWER DECKS
PRODIGY
ENTERPRISE
THE ANIMATED SERIES
VOYAGER
DEEP SPACE NINE
STARFLEET ACADEMY

 

[maneth]

Even my least favorite show has a lots of episodes I like, and my favorite has a few stinkers, but here goes.

DS9. Head and shoulders above the rest, but a big part of that for me is that my absolutely favorite sci-fi show ever is Babylon 5, and DS9 comes closest to that in both the fact that it's mainly set on a space station and can have a true ensemble cast with lots of secondary characters who nevertheless get some character development, and it gets the balance between episodic storytelling and longer story arcs just right to match my preferences.

ENT. This show has its flaws, I'll grant you. But I also like the way it's the start of an era, with a cramped ship and tech that didn't always work and wasn't always safe to use (in later eras I'm surprised they continued to use the holodeck given how often it malfunctioned, sometimes with dire consequences). I also liked the fact that they didn't assume humanity had evolved so far as to eliminate all conflict between crew members, that's not realistic and I don't expect us to ever get there. My least favorite is season 3 because as much as I like story arcs with real character development, when the premise of the story doesn't grab my interest it gets a bit tedious.

TNG/VGR/PIC season 3. I originally became a Trek fan thanks to TNG. I still quite like it, especially after the second half of season 3 when Roddenberry was no longer around and they could write more interesting (IMO) stories. That said, I do think it was sad that Tasha Yar was never really given anything truly substantial to work on so I don't blame Denise Crosby for leaving the show. VGR was more of the same, just in another quadrant, and with a female captain. Originally I detested Seven because of the way she replaced Kes, but later I came to appreciate the depth of the character. The fully human characters were bland in comparison. I loved the last season of PIC because it was a great conclusion for the main TNG characters and Seven (and seeing Seven as the captain of the Enterprise-G was great).

TOS. None of the rest would be here without it. But parts of it have aged really poorly, and the casual misogyny is painful to watch at times. But at its best it's really good. (One reason why I like STC so much is that they've taken the basic premise and tell stories that could fit with the original show while eliminating pretty much all of the casual sexism.)

TAS. Worth seeing at least once, at least if you're a TOS fan. Most of the episodes are average and there are a few stinkers, but just Yesteryear makes the whole thing worth it.

PIC season 1 & 2. Traumatized Picard is a bit much, but I quite like the new characters, especially Raffi. But I also felt that the seasons could've been a bit shorter, as it was they dragged on a bit. That's my biggest complaint with arc-based storytelling, even the shorter seasons sometimes feel too long to sustain the plot.

I haven't seen the rest and don't feel any particular wish to do so.

 

[somebuddyX]

I rank the first five live action series all about the same as good.
I rank everything else as haven't seen.