>> Voyager killed it for me. <<
I wish I could have hated ST:V as much as I should have — I distinctly remember the first time we heard Kate Muldrew speak my wife burst out laughing. When Mrs. FD could finally collect herself she asked “is that her real voice? It sounds like a Munchkin or on helium!”
But the general plot lines were compelling in their own way. The subtext of “we will adhere to Star Fleet rules because the alternative is complete chaos” which requires everyone to sign up (they had a few chances to jump ship but didn’t because, you know, Star Trek!).
They show ST:V on a few stations and I do find myself caught up with the situations — and my chance to be the Monday Morning Parisi Squares coach.
Enterprise? After a few episodes Mrs. FD again took the helm and said “all you do is call every single character an ahole.” She was right, even the Vulcan eye-candy hawtie — in fact she was the most insufferable ahole of them all.
YMMV — and clearly does. :) :)
One thing every Trekker that saw even a single ep of TOS and TNG knows: It took 2 dudes to replace 1 Kirk and Kirk would have kicked PICARD’S BUTT (which he almost did in that sad, sad movie).
DS9 deserves its own discussion thread even if so many hated it ;)
DS9 is my favorite of the modern Treks. But then again at the same time I was a huge B5 fan and DS9 was a ripoff of Straczynski’s pitch he made of B5 to Paramount. I was a big fan of TNG when it came out, but as I grew older and began to think socialism might be a bad idea I cooled on it.
As for Voyager I hated about every aspect of it, starting with Kate Mulgrew’s voice and character as captain. Then there was the oh-so politically correct first officer Chakotay. The concept was good and could have been a rousing adventure with the right cast and a captain in the mold of Kirk who would bend and stretch the Prime Directive as far as needed to get home. Instead we got an SJWs vision of the future captained by a Federation bureaucrat for whom getting home would be a lucky happenstance.
ST:V had some really interesting ideas, but it was incompetently executed. I like it, too, in spite of itself.