My first Star Trek was actually te cartoon in the late 70's. I still remember vividly when they went into the parallel universe where space was white and stars were black. And in the very early 90's before streaming and even DVD a friend of mine bought back from the United States 4 long play VHS tapes that had managed to compress the entire first two seasons of TNG before they were released in Australia. I only had access to them for a weekend so we watched every single episode in about 70 hours with basically no sleep. So Star Terk will always hold a special place for me. But funnily enough - the only series I HAVEN'T watched is Scott Bakula Enterprise. But of late I've started to give up. I enjoyed Picard Season 2 despite its many short comings and I didn't mind Lower Decks but Discovery has just left me cold. And I can't put my finger on why - I think part of it was jumping so far into the future.

The one silver lining of getting older is you can watch stuff you've seen many years before and not remember it all. So I'll go back to Voyager, TNG and DS9 at some point but I've seen the Original at least 3 times and all the movies at least twice. As you say at least we have a massive amount of existing material so we can ignore the modern woke takes as they come out.