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.
I love that the movies became unabashedly about the three male leads. Kirk,Spock,and McCoy were wonderful through their movie run. I like that Kirk didn't change his prejudice because of some self righteous speech but by seeing people further gone than him. I wonder if the cabal could turn Kirk to their side if he didn't have Spock and Bones.
Plummer and Warner were amazing Klingons, which looking back at their body of work who would've guess. Seeing a subordinate like Sulu rise up to captain was pretty cool. Klingons are just cool. I hate their backstory has been retconned numerous times now. We like our brow ridge Klingons, Ka-pla.
Too bad Sulu's legacy is the geriatric wokester of today.