Favorite Star Treks.
1. Voyager. Hard choice over TNG, but Voyager didn't have to go through that weird beginning phase where they tried too hard to make aliens mysterious. It felt like it found it's stride much quicker, but later episodes weren't quite as good.
2. Next Generation. Early episodes were really goofy. They tried way too hard to emphasize just how different and mysterious the aliens were. Mostly the Ferengi, with their pure white backgrounds in transmissions ro their weird tendency to just be constantly writhing around like 6 inches away from other characters. Really shows in the Episode where Tasha Yar dies. However, once it had a bit of time to grow, the stories were absolutely top notch.
3. Original Series. I admit, I haven't seen many of these, but I can appreciate how ahead of their time they were. Not just in their ideas of future technology, but ideas of alien life. I imagine the idea of silicon based life, resulting in what is essentially living rocks, was pretty inspired. Also, tribbles are nuts.
4. Deep Space 9. Again, I haven't seen many, but this series got really into political and spy stuff.
-1. Star Trek Enterprise. A few good episodes, good characters, but absolute garbage because of the time travel nonsense. There are no good time travel plots because the bad guys did time travel so the good guys fix it with time travel but then the bad guys do time travel again and it's just an absolute circle of nonsense.
In conclusion, I need to watch more star trek, and try to skip all the time travel episodes of Enterprise if I ever go back to it.