Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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No - those are NOT the good stuff - those are early entries of America's descent into woke-ism.
Pushing such great ideas as it's ok to wipe memories of non-warp drive peoples to uphold the prime directive or that the prime directive is so benevolent that it's OK to have a duck blind in the middle of a growing civilization because "enlightenment".
So much so that Babylon 5 had episodes that direct called out such hypocrisy.
Both TNG and DS9, like TOS, have their good and bad episodes, but they're woke as shit. Voyager goes one step beyond (and kills all the white crewmen in epsiode 1) and it just degenerates from there.
If cheap effects turn you off I'd suggest that you're missing the point. ST:TOS wasn't about "effects" but about story. Yes some oft the fx don't compare to super whiz-bang CG. But that wasn't the point. It's the best they had at the time to represent actions in the story. See the remastered episodes of TOS if it's such a burden on you, but understand that the staying power of TOS (which launched TNG, DS9 , et; al) is its stories and actors and teaching new ways to think.