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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The good stuff is TNG and DS9, so I would start with those. The problem with TNG though is that the early seasons have some very shitty episodes.
There are tons of viewing/episode guides available, my recommendation is using one of them. Skip the very low rated episodes unless you like the theme of them (or the characters they focus on).
You an watch the TOS movies without having watched the TOS series.
I personally prefer ENT over VOY.
I abandoned DIS after 2-3 episodes, Picard after a season and haven't bothered with anything else.
People say the series they grew up with was the best, or even good.
The truth is that none of them are good shows, there are a few great episodes and tons of shitty episodes. We remember the good episodes, the bad ones are just forgotten and skipped over.
This is why the Original Series and Next Generation hold up over time way better than the others, because each series is more and more trying to tell a long-running story and they're all very bad at it.
The only place where I disagree is that DS9 had some really good long-running story arcs. (I would not say the same for ENT but ymmv) But yes, despite everything else that's wrong with them, the newer series would have been better off doing the one-shot episode format.
DS9 started out shit but when the introduced the Dominion got good and once the war starts it's pretty great.
Garak is probably my fav Star Trek character ever.