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.
- Deep Space Nine
- Voyager
- The Next Generation
- Enterprise
- Picard Season 3
- The Original Series
- Lower Decks
- Strange New Worlds
- Prodigy
- The Animated Series
- Discovery
- 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?
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.