While I love TNG (even though the cast can’t shut up) and that was the first Star Trek I was familiar with since I was 6 and a fan of reading rainbow when it came out I would say that the original series is my favorite (can happily watch Trek through Enterprise). My dad watched Original Series reruns since as long as I can remember.
The sendoff for the original crew always gets to to me and it just contrast that with writers today who live to crap on or deconstruct the works of better writers. I saw they are making a new blade runner with a delusional man, Disney is making a new Neverending Story, and Netflix is butchering… I mean remaking the Chronicles of Narnia.
One good thing about Star Trek is that I have a lot of books to read. I was at a convention once and a guy had a bunch of Star Trek books for a quarter a piece so I left with a bunch.
Star Trek, despite having watched two of their series from start to finish, is never something I really developed much genuine appreciation for. It doesn't manage to be grounded hard sci fi or space fantasy(or something that blurs the two like the original Mass Effect), but rather it seems to be a drama show or soap opera only coincidentally set in space.
Plus the fan base for the show, yikes. Even as far back as the 90s most of them were the kind of effort averse communists who deserve to be sealed alive in oil drums.
But I can certainly think of worse things to read to eat up spare time. Scalzi for example.
John Scalzi, or as Vox Day calls him, "McRapey"
Always wondered why he called him that.
I'm afraid I don't know the origin of the nickname.