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 swear I flipped on Disco and saw robots. One of the things about Trek is that it wasn't a robot-heavy vision of the future; Data and Lore were meant to be exceptional. They never really explained why, as far as I know; out of universe, I feel it's because Asimov had such a lock on Robot sci-fi at the time Roddenberry made Trek. That, and the budget likely wouldn't allow for that drastic of a costume/puppet.
Throwing in robots just shows that they didn't give a shit about Trek, they just wanted their own generic gay sci-fi to sully the Trek name.