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As this is a new community I thought it would be fun to get to know each other by sharing our most and least favourite series. (We’ll do the films another time)

Obviously I’ll start.

  1. Deep Space Nine
  2. Voyager
  3. The Next Generation
  4. Enterprise
  5. Picard Season 3
  6. The Original Series
  7. Lower Decks
  8. Strange New Worlds
  9. Prodigy
  10. The Animated Series
  11. Discovery
  12. Picard Seasons 1 & 2

I know I’m kind of cheating by splitting Picard up but season 3 is so different and so far removed from the truly awful first two seasons it deserves its own slot. I do believe Picard has the single worst season in all of Star Trek with season 1 and the single best season in the franchise with season 3.

TNG’s 3rd and 4th seasons come close but I think Picards 3rd season just tops them. That’s a massive credit to Terry Matalas to turn the show around from some of the worst in the franchise to some of the best.

Here’s hoping we get Star Trek Legacy but given Paramounts current financial situation it seems unlikely.

Also Ben Sisko is the GOAT of Starfleet Captains.

What order would you put the series in?

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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

TNG... everything we have today spun directly from it

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I have been a Star Trek fan since the early 1970s. I got to meet most of the original cast during the 1975 convention in Philadelphia https://fanlore.org/wiki/Schuster_Star_Trek_Conventions/1975_Philadelphia_Schuster_Star_Trek_Convention Where Nichelle Nichols kissed me twice on the cheek and said I was “cute”. I’ve never washed my cheek since. I got to meet James Doohan, and we talked about his missing finger. He was just standing around alone on the main floor, so I went up to him, scared, and started chatting. I still have much of the things from the show, including the program book, my badge, even the plastic bag. Anyway.

I hate ds9 and Voyager. Can’t watch even half an episode, what do you guys see in those?

For me it’s:

  1. Lower decks
  2. TOS
  3. SNW
  4. Next Gen
  5. Animated series

Nothing else.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

I hate ds9 and Voyager. Can’t watch even half an episode, what do you guys see in those?

Well, to start with we actually watched them.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

DS9 is darker and more modern than others, so it's like a millenial Trek. Muddy politics, lots of warcrimes, lots of incompatible ideas, feeling of helplessness against even minor problems and it's generally closer to us than a dream of the future told by TNG or TOS. I find introduction of Odo and ferengi nationals being a big fat plus to the franchise because of their complicated characters. Unlike older series, main cast doesn't feel welcome here and they try to accomodate to things more foreign to them than they are used to. I can vouch for the quality of writing there, but I am to assume it's just not the thing everyone would want to find in Trek. In the end of the day, DS9 is just a constant depression of us having the same problems and pettiness even on the final frontier. That's why it has all chances to be disliked.

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I enjoyed DS9 enough to at least start watching each episode, even if I didn't finish it.

My schedule made it impossible to watch Voyager and when I went back a few years ago, I didn't make it through the pilot episode. It was just awful.

Right now for me, it's just waiting for new seasons of Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.

I watched TOS, animated TOS, and TNG completely but I can't really rewatch them anymore.

Still haven't tried Picard and stopped Disco after season 2. I stopped after S1 but then I heard about Strange New Worlds and went back for S2.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

I hate ds9 and Voyager. Can’t watch even half an episode, what do you guys see in those?

DS9 has 4 separate bisexual main cast members:

Bashir is canonically dating Garak but is also great with the ladies
Kira is in a thruple with Miles and Keiko, and also dates goo
Odo is gay for all the other goo on his planet but also has it bad for Kira
Dax is married to Worf but also had that romantic episode with her ex-wife

And that's not even counting Miles' homosexual repression towards Bashir.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lower Decks is at the top, that much I know.

I will shamefully admit I've never seen the animated series.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

TAS is better than TOS. Kukulkan's appearance in LDS is a reference to a TAS episode

[–] NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. TNG
  2. DS9
  3. TOS
  4. LD
  5. VOY
  6. ENT
  7. SNW

Beyond that I probably wouldn't watch any of the others. I did watch all of Discovery, but mostly out of hate. It just got so bad. It is the worst thing that ever happened to Star Trek.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Discovery has some real lows, but I'd argue that it kind of restarted things and made the other decent new shows possible, so maybe not the worst thing after all? I hate a lot of the dialogue and plot points, which is bad. I like most of the characters though. What did you hate about it the most? And was there any aspect that you liked even a bit?

[–] NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I think we see it similarly. SNW is indeed the best thing about Discovery. I was sad every time I had to turn off my brain to enjoy a Discovery episode. I liked more characters, though, eg. Tilly, Saru, the Empress or both Spock's parents. I didn't like Michael, but I didn't hate her either - I kind of appreciated the writers for making a leading character deliberately flawed and making lots of bad choices. That's not what I want from Star Trek though.

[–] NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. DS9
  2. TNG
  3. VOY
  4. SNW
  5. Lower Decks
  6. ENT
  7. Prod
  8. Picard (only because season 3 brings up up.
  9. TAS
  10. TOS
  11. Disc

I put Picard together and bumped it up a notch, but I’d only ever consider rewatching season 3.

Discovery, never really got good, but I’m hoping the next season is better.

TOS has a lot of bad episodes, it there are still some I like to watch.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Disco definitely started finding it's feet in Season 3, and I thought 4 was better too. I think season 5 will be truly great. It's a shame it didn't get as much of a chance as the other Star Trek shows. TNG was pretty terrible before season 3 as well

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

It’s feels blasphemous to say it, but Trek was at its best once Roddenberry left the show.

[–] 31415926535@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Currently rewatching Voyager. Love the dynamics between seven, tuvok and the doctor. Tsunkatse is on right now. Eagerly anticipating the episode when icheb shows up.

[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Current favs:

  • Strange New Worlds
  • Lower Decks
  • Deep Space Nine
  • Prodigy
  • The Original Series
  • The Next Generation

Least favs except for a few episodes: Picard, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery

Unrated since I haven't watched it. The Animated Series

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago
  1. Voyager
  2. Lower Decks
  3. DS9
  4. Strange New Worlds
  5. TNG
  6. TOS
  7. Enterprise
  8. Discovery
  9. Picard
  10. Prodigy (Haven't actually seen this one yet)
  11. TAS (Or this one)

Voyager has a lot of terrible episodes, but it also has a lot of the best in my opinion. And it definitely has the best characters. Sorry Bashir, but you'll never top the Doc

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

DS9

Lower Decks

VOY

TOS

TNG

SNW

TAS

Enterprise

Prodigy

Discovery

Picard

DS9 writing just stands above the rest, excepting TOS, but tos doesn’t do characterization as well and isn’t nearly so consistent.

Lower Decks is brilliant and packs more characterization and trekky soul in 30mins than most series do per hour.

I’ll admit that Voyager eps are probably weaker on average than TNG and TOS, but I love that family and ship and I will go anywhere and do anything to help Janeway get more coffee.

TOS does mystery boxes with setups better than Abrams, but unlike when Abrams does them they actually go somewhere and say something.

TNG does so much so well, but the first couple seasons are a slog and I can’t stand how Picard thinks watching people who can’t help themselves die is moral because.. the universe wants it?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
  1. Voyager
  2. Voyager
  3. TNG