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.
My understanding is Nimoy's criticism was foundational. The problem was the story itself. Having to spend far too much energy in the why just to swing a gimmick to pull off the what (get the two captains in the same scene).
As insulting as it was to ENT, if you want to get Kirk and Picard in the same scene, it's easier to do it "These are the Voyages" style. Give Picard some new mysterious crisis in the present that has to be explored on the holodeck in the past. Sort of a cross the episode where Picard orders Data to lie and the time Geordi creates a holo-engineer. A murder mystery, "piece it together" story. Kirk & crew encounter something, resolve it, but the threat comes back and their OFFICIAL report doesn't give Picard enough to go on so he has to get inside Kirk's thinking.
That would’ve made much more sense