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I like Enterprise, and it should be really hitting next season when we get fully embroiled in the arc story (which is suspiciously similar to the Crusade story afte B5, only with time traveling bad guys). Voyager was pathetic, it's not even cannon, I let 95% of that series pass me without notice. But we also have to take a real look at TOS, it's been built up in our memory but when you get right down to it there's a lot of cheese in TOS, it's fun cheese but it's certainly not the halmark of brilliant sci-fi we like to say it is.

Voyager was just awful. I have NEVER seen a cast where so many of the characters were just outright unlikeable. I started out disliking Neelix and Harry from the beginning, but by the time I stopped watching, I also disliked Janeway, Chakotay, and the by then sissified Paris. I might not have liked Tuvok, as well, except that he never got any screen time. I stopped watching Enterprise sometime early in the 2nd season. It was just getting boring and stupid. I did watch the finale, though, which was good, and I'll give it another chance next season, but I don't have much confidence in Berman and Bragga. Even if they're ripping off B5, they'll still find some way to muck it up.

As for Trek in general, my personal favorite is DS9. I realize the premise is most likely a rip-off of B5 (As JMS pitched the idea to Paramount previously), but the show itself after about the 2nd season is damned good. And of course, that's the one in which Berman had the least influence. You're right about some of TOS (Spock's Brain?) but the good part about it is that there were some fantastic episodes. It had dreck, but it had gold, too. Something which can't be said of some of the latter Star Trek series'.