DS9 and specifically "Emissary" have truly aided in my recovery from depression/suicidal tendencies. Knowing it’s done the same for others -especially those who came before me, who made Star Trek more popular ➡️ available to me -brings me tremendous joy.
Insurrection is "Low Stakes?" How many people does it take Seán, before the stakes become high? A thousand? Fifty-thousand??? *A million* ?! *HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE, SEÁN?!*
Right? They’re showing the TNG crew’s really only story that takes place in/about the dominion war and how the Enterprise deals with that, the planet, the people there, starfleet’s treachery, the Son’a… And like you said high stakes with what they should do, and did.
I like Insurrection very much for that. Picard is a very much by-the-book officer. To have him taking his rank pips off and go "rogue" is a very good example of taking a stand in the face of a higher duty
The biggest problem that Mrs and I have with Disco is the focus around Micheal as the hero of all with constant GALAXY HUGE STAKES in every episode. Disco almost drove my wife away from Star Trek as a whole. Thank goodness for other series out there.
That's my main issue with it too. Michael isn't bad, but she's the least interesting character, in my opinion. I keep watching to stay up to date with the stories, but seasons 1 and 2 were the best to me.
I tried to watch Disco. I really, honestly did. The show is a disaster and I'm surprised it's so high on the list. The point I finally gave up was in the fourth season. There was some sort of disaster going on and, for once, the bridge crew started working together to come up with a solution that didn't involve Michael. Then Saru talks up and says to just wait because Michael will know what to do. And everyone is just like 'Oh yeah, how dare we try to have our own autonomy other than nodding agreeably to Michael'. It is the only Star Trek I can think of that doesn't have a ship and a crew. It has a main character. And that main character is inconsistent as a character and almost feels like a Fan Fiction insert in terms of characterization.
Yeah, there are some serious problems with the show. That being said, I think it's ALMOST good. It's sorta like Into Darkness: it's full of little moments that I like, but it contains a handful of problems that are so bad that they sour the whole experience.
I also think the majority of the other bridge officers are after thoughts, because this wasn’t really an ensemble in the same way every other trek show has been. I find a lot of the acting from the bridge crew pretty static and stale.
In the early 2000's, I started a new job. When I met one of my supervisors, he asked me one question: "What is your favorite Trek?" Without hesitation, I replied "DS9." He nodded and said "We'll get along just fine." 20 years and three jobs later, he remains one of my best friends.
As a Gen Xer, let me point out that the fans' love of TOS led to all of the Cons operating today (sci fi or otherwise.) Also, had The Wrath of Khan NOT knocked it out of the park, Star Trek would have been finished. For these points, alone, I'd rank them both much higher.
@zqxzqxzqx. You are so right. For TOS to be ranked below Voyager and Prodigy and Lower Decks (which I love) is evidence of a lack of thought put into this list.
@@sarahkinsey5434I can tell you from experience that it was excruciating 😂😂!! I was around 10 or 11, and not knowing about programming schedules, I checked back every day for months! When I finally caught that season premiere...🤯
The Discovery series is by far my least favorite series in Star Trek. If I watch that ship spinning after plugging into one of its crew members, I am going to scream. Bottom of the list for me.
Star Trek Into Darkness will forever hold a special place in my heart as it's the last movie I went to theaters to watch with my sister before she passed
"Data aging out of the role" never made sense to me since it was established in TNG that Data could set his body to "simulate" an aging appearance so as to be able to "fit in" better with the living individuals he associated with.
Appearance isn't the issue. No matter what Data looks like he's still an android with superhuman strength and reflexes and endurance. Brent Spiner simply couldn't keep up with the physicality required for the role, and relying on body doubles and cgi only goes so far.
If I'd been writing it and needed to keep Data around, I'd've had his outer skin get almost completely destroyed whilst saving Picard in Nemesis, then replace Spiner with a new actor, with Data explaining that he felt the need to evolve his appearance away from being an imitation of his creator. Whilst Spiner's performance is iconic, as we've seen it's very possible to imitate it and in time the new actor would bring their own spin to the role.
@@topogigio7031 Actually he does. Due to his size, it's difficult to find stunt performers that look believable, and, with his background in wrestling, he enjoys "putting on a show" for his fans.
DS9 has been my favorite since it originally aired. It's something when third tier characters on this show have more growth and development than any main character on any other ST show.
this is my biggest praise of the show i tell people. there are several "tier 3" characters developed and more interesting than main bridge crew of DISCOVERY
The fact that Max Grodenchik went from unnamed Ferengi pit boss, to a hardworking Ferengi dad doing his best, to the engineer whose minefield saved the Federation, to Grand Nagus Rom, solely based on the strength of his performance is a testament to good writing and a flexible writing room.
DS9 is my all-time favorite Star Trek show. I forget sometimes just how damn good it was. The multiple layers to the characters, the storytelling, the incredible writing and acting... it's just awesome. I always enjoy rewatching the series, even though I know what is going to happen.
In the Pale Moonlight is like a Star Trek take on House of Cards where Ben Sisko draws the viewer in and makes them a co-conspirator with him like Francis Erquhart.
Okay, I just discovered this channel today. And I'm hooked. I must say, my favorite part of your rankings are that you don't really dog on any film/series. You name the good to all of it and maybe mention why it was criticized. I appreciate the positivity to this! It's all totally subjective, so I appreciate that no one really tells anyone they are wrong for picking something as a favorite that others may not like as much. Also: TNG for life. That is all.
That's an admirable position saying we are all allowed our opinions. That is hardly what I usually get told when I say that Discovery and Strange New Worlds finally got me to love Star Trek.
Yeah, while I prefer TNG over TOS, all this stuff trying to "remake" the TOS era is bullshit, the changes in the tech, retconning in bullshit in a pathetic attempt to make a wholey disliked character feel more important by "connecting" them to a existing iconic character. Like ok I get that people can make the excuse of "b-but the technology of TOS isn't "futuristic" enough now" dude the Enterprise was told to F off into the depths of unknown space for 5 years, it makes sense they wouldn't use bleeding edge technology and would choose to rely on more tried and tested and more rebust and reliable tech to do that. If they wanna do more stuff in the original timeline, they got the unexplored Enterprise 1701-B and 1701-C
I'm in the opposite camp. I like disco. Just gotta watch it knowing it's not classic trek. I just can't take a cartoon seriously. I desperately want a new show taking place after ds9 and voy with an all new crew.
Strange New Worlds has a diverse cast and is awesome. DISCO has a diverse cast and is k-rap. It isn't the casting that makes DISCO so awful, it's the everything else.
People arnt annoyed about diversity in Discovery. It's bad writing. Poor acting. And relying on placing characters into emotional crisis as a substitute for meaningful character development. Seriously if they got 1 episode without someone crying it's a surprise
@@beyerdr I disagree, the actors are great. The casting is awesome, it's just poor follow through and writing on interesting concepts. Also, they have no advisors telling them their science stinks.
Indeed, I find it so incredibly frustrating when Discovery defenders lump any and all criticism into the "you just can't handle diversity, lol" category. No! NOOOOO! (Breaks little ships) I like Star Trek, therefore I support IDIC, and I am pleased by the often groundbreaking representation in the casts of the many shows over the years. Discovery is nonsense though. Incongruous, overly dramatic, cheesy, lowest common denominator tripe.
DS9 is the best, definitely neck and neck with TNG. Happy to see people are liking voyager more these days. Also really appreciate your take on the newer shows/films
I think you had to have lived through all of the shows in order to appreciate each in its place. I was a riveted 6-year old when TOS premiered on NBC and I have watched the entire progression of the various series and movies in real time. I think this list is not bad; however, I would have rated TOS a bit more highly. Again, you had to be alive and watching television 1966 when TOS came out to fully appreciate what it accomplished within the constraints of the time. I do agree with the #1 ranking of DS9, also appreciate Lower Decks, and would put Voyage Home followed by First Contact as the best Trek movies, yes, even before Wrath of Khan.
I didn't live through the premier of TOS but I lived through the rest of them. That's probably the main reason I rank DS9 lower than in my personal list of likes than any other series of the Berman era. Syndication, depending on where you lived, killed DS9. I vividly remember the beginning of season 6. They aired them all in order up until after favor the bold. Instead of sacrifice of angels they aired rocks and shoals again. Then the next week was a football game or something? And the week after that they aired you are cordially invited. I guess they retook the station? I didn't see sacrifice of angels until the next year. By season 7 I had given up, I couldn't follow the story and they needlessly killed Jadzia. I would love to be able to erase it from my memory and watch it the way millennials have. Also DS9 is undoubtedly better than voyager and enterprise. But it gets too dark and goes places I'm not overly always comfortable with. Voyager is not the best star trek series by to say the least, but it's the one I watch the most. I love the cast, I love the characters, it never fails to make me smile. Because of the modern 10 eps a season format, no series will have as many good episodes as DS9. TNG is the first and only time star trek became must see TV while it was in first run, when it was at it's best it was better than DS9, but DS9 didn't have a season as bad as season 7 of TNG, much less season 1 of TNG.
I’ve always thought you probably had to watch TOS when it first aired to really appreciate it. I feel guilty for not loving it but it’s just too dated for me. I love the characters and movies, but then I could see them when they first came out though.
Excellent! Thinking of the same. I was 20 when it first screened in my area on Sept. 12, 1966. Yes, it does help to see them in their respective 'time zones'. TOS seems kind of clunky, campy at times, certainly with the scantly-cladded 'oh-la-la ladies' with their ridiculous hairdos, all to draw in horny 14-17 year old boys. But TOS was bold, so different from Sci Fi of those days with at times, really interesting with thoughtful themes, plots. To me, Discovery, Picard, and especially Strange New Worlds seems to me to be excessively 'too busy', brashy at times. But, it may/probably resonate to Millennials, Gen Z with their close affinity to tech (not all of them, I know) and brought up in a world very different from my youth. This, I think, might be part of that fabric of 'subjectivism'.
You don't need to have watched TOS when it went out originally to appreciate it I wasn't born anywhere near the Original run and for me it's right at the top with TNG. Top tier television regardless of time or genre.
My own list: 25- final frontier v 24 - Picard 23 - Disco 22 - shorts 21 - ST: Insurrection 20 - ST : Into Darkness 19 - nemesis 18 - Motion picture I 17 - animated series 16 - Star Trek beyond 15 - Star Trek new film 14 - prodigy 13 - voyage home 12- undiscovered country 6 11- wrath of khan 2 10 - search for Spock 3 9 - original series 8 - Star Trek generations 7 - strange new worlds 6 - Enterprise 5 - Voyager 4 - first contact 3 - tng 2 - lower decks 1 - DS9
25: Star Trek: Insurrection 24: Star Trek V: Final Frontier 23: Star Trek: Prodigy 22: Star Trek: Discovery 21: Star Trek: Nemesis 20: Star Trek: Enterprise 19: Star Trek: The Motion Picture 18: Star Trek: Lower Decks 17: Star Trek: Animated Series 16: Star Trek: Generations 15: Short Treks 14: Star Trek: Into Darkness 13: Star Trek: Picard 12: Star Trek: Beyond 11: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 10: Star Trek 9: Star Trek: Voyager 8: Star Trek: The Original Series 7: Star Trek: The Voyage Home 6: Star Trek: First Contact 5: Star Trek: Search for Spock 4: Star Trek: Undiscovered Country 3: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 2: Star Trek: The Next Generation 1: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
I've never understood the hate for Insurrection. The fact that it is like a long episode of TNG is why I like it. Personally, I have no problem with the diversity of Discovery, rather that they make such a big deal about it as if it's new to Star Trek. Here is my list from Worst to Best: Discovery Picard Into Darkness Short Treks Nemesis The Final Frontier 2009 TAS Generations Beyond TMP - The Search for Spock Strange New Worlds (may go higher) Undiscovered Country Prodigy (may go higher) Lower Decks Insurrection Voyager (could benefit from character growth) The Voyage Home (whales!) Enterprise (So much untapped potential) TOS Wrath of Kahn DS9 (The Characters! But last 2 seasons dragged for me, depsite good stories) First Contact TNG (The Stories!)
@@KainsAddiction Watch "!Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" from TOS and tell me all about how the older series "diversity" wasn't in your face or pushing an agenda. I'll wait.
The genius of DS9 is that it's different. Whilst I love most of trek (including disco, I can look past the teary bit and enjoy 10C as an extragalactric high-on-karadshev scale non-humanoid civilisation). DS9 didn't just have a great cast and characters, but it also made you think. Everything was relatable. The cardassians as a resource-poor nation that out of pure desperation goes to war, gets knocked down, but instead of getting "past" itself and getting help, there's elements that seek back former glory. The cardassians are a tragic people, beautifully written. Even Dukat, while obviously insane at the end (but with a reason) is relatable. The Dominion is another beast. The fact that their power is introduced by blowing up something equivalent to a hero ship is scary. But the revelation of who is behind the Dominion, and why they do it, ties back beautifully to some of the main characters. Even the Section31/Romulans are very nicely interwoven. Whilst Rodenberry would probably disagree on some of it, even he can't deny himself a few 'badmirals' once in a while. So all things considered... DS9's morally gray starfleet ánd federation are great, as it feeds back into the fear the founders have. The only thing I wish had a bit more fleshing out and feedback is the whole prophets-thing. Wish we would've known more of them. Who they were/are, their nature, etc... Guess I'm too much Dax-like to just accept that they "are of bajor".
I knew DS9 would be number one; I'm teaching "Far Beyond the Stars" next week! So glad to see Enterprise getting more attention; it is a really great series!
I never miss an opportunity to remind viewers that "Far Beyond the Stars" is not only a nearly perfect Star Trek episode, but that it is also a nearly perfect Twilight Zone episode. Perhaps you could challenge your students to compare the two series, and discuss how "Far Beyond..." would fit equally well into either of them.
I like it too. Wish they could've continued it in a newer series or a movie. Maybe Jolene and John might agree to either as they don't want to do a series anymore. He might be only 5 yrs. younger than I, but she's 20 yrs. younger and 47 is too young to retire. I miss them all.
@@lucstone7167 Thats awesome and I can see it working so well, you really don't need to know the universe or a lot of backstory to show it to people who have never seen DS9 or Star Trek. I still watch that episode at least once or twice a year.
Much like the Starwars prequels. It's only after a decade or more that you realize it's far from being as bad as you thought. There's still some annoying parts/episodes/characters, but the series as a whole is really good. The 4th season was spectacular (I was not into the Xindi thing, and since it was the story of the whole season, I got tired and stop watching... Until last year and WOW). The planned 5th season with the revamped Enterprise looked pretty good.
@@mapleflag6518 Absolutely. I've viewed the entire run numerous times, but can't bear to rewatch even one second of the catastrophic finale! Most heinous were the gratuitous killing off of Trip, and then the unwelcome hijacking of the episode by the pompous TNG characters.
Star Trek Discovery isn't criticised for having a diverse cast, it's criticised for Micheal Burnham being an awful main character (especially in season 1) and some shockingly poor/lazy writing . Burnham could have been adopted by any Vulkan family but was placed into Spock's family (which felt very forced), is a complete Mary Sue (due to poor writing), became the saviour of the universe because of plot requirements (REALLY lazy and poor writing) and should have spent her life rotting in a Federation prison for disobeying orders (which caused a devastating war), assaulting a superior officer and causing said superior officers death! The only bright spot in the entire series was Pike in season 2 which was rewarded with a spin off series. With a divisive lead character and so many writing issues you can't blame people for rejecting the series. Yes you can also complain over political correctness but that's always existed in Star Trek, the problem is the way it's presented. It's no different from when Doctor Who went from subtly talking about real world themes, ideas and problems throughout an episode to Jodie Whittaker starting directly into the camera and lecturing the audience for five straight minutes about environmentalism! There are ways to bring up topics in nuanced ways, present both sides of the argument and allow the audience to make their own decision. Classic Star Trek from ToS to Enterprise could do this, modern Star Trek can't and that's what people mean when they say 'it's not real Star Trek'. Same goes for Star Wars or Doctor Who.
I think Nemesis gets a bad wrap...I really liked it. Where as I think that Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home gets sooo much love. I like it but not as much as most.
TVH getting placed above TWOK is really wild to me, it's super clear that TWOK is by far the best of the movies. I do agree with his placing I2D down so far; even being kind of a cumberbatch stan from his work on Sherlock. It wasn't a great idea to try and rewrite the best of the TOS movies even though I felt cumberbatch was effective in his role as khan, he definately knew how to play that insidious genius part perfect though.
For me the shows from best to worst are: 1. Deep Space Nine 2. Discovery 3. The Next Generation 4. Strange New Worlds 5. Voyager 6. Lower Decks 7. Enterprise 8. Picard 9. The Original Series 10. Prodigy 11. The Animated Series The movies from best to worst 1. The Undiscovered Country 2. First Contact 3. The Voyage Home 4. The Wrath of Kahn 5. Star Trek Beyond 6. The Search for Spock 7. Generations 8. Insurrection 9. Star Trek 2009 10. The Motion Picture 11. The Final Frontier 12. Into Darkness 13. Nemesis
Well, we both ranked TNG 2nd but I think that's as far as the similarities go lol. We have very different lists - which is why it is great to have so many different series as there is something for everyone. I started to check out the article, but then I saw Prodigy was 24th and checked out right there. I can't say I've ever considered ranking the films and shows in the same list before; they are such different formats it's like comparing apples and oranges.
Totally agree that Star Trek has something for everyone. With so much to choose from there are going to be different lists amongst people. Also I agree with the fact that you don't rank series and films on the same list.
@13:11 I've literally never seen that argument. This sounds like a very disingenuous statement. The main criticisms are: Infallible Mary Sue, Inconsistent lore regarding the casual usage of "curse words", the Spore Drive being incongruous with Starfleet Tech, The Super Tech that doesn't fit the timeline (phase shifting ships, time traveling Iron Man suit)
Nope. It's all "Michael is a black woman, they have a non-binary cast member, two of the characters are openly gay..." blah blah blah. 🙄 Honestly, it's pathetic.
Although it hurts my feelings I have to admit I despise Star Trek discovery. And it's solely because the captain Michael Burnham just doesn't do it for me. Has zero to do with being a woman see Captain Janeway. It has nothing to do with her ethnicity, she just simply does not come across as Captain material. And because of that I can't take it serious and I can't watch it. Probably the only Star Trek series that I have dismissed.
I've never heard anyone, who wasn't on the left, bring up diversity in Discovery. Most complaints I've seen are that it's just badly written and too fixated on Burnham specifically, rather than more of an ensemble cast, and the retcons - a perpetual adversary of all Star Trek fans. And the people on the left who bring it up are always people complaining about people complaining about diversity, but without any real sources. The last episode of Enterprise wasn't bad... it was just an atrocious final episode for a show that doesn't involve Bob Newhart.
For sheer watchability 1. DS9 2. TNG 3. TOS 4. Wrath of Khan 5. ENT 6. VOY 7. Undiscovered Country 8. First Contact 9. Search for Spock 10. Beyond 11. TMP 12. Star Trek ‘09 13. Prodigy 14. Voyage Home 15. Strange New Worlds 16. Lower Decks 17. Generations 18. Star Trek V 19. Animated 20. Insurrection 21. Nemesis 22. Into Darkness 23. Disco 24. Short Treks 25. Picard
I like most of your picks. I think your top ten is good. I may have disagreements with the entire list. Nothing personal, but everyone has their own opinions. 🖖
@@jasontoddman7265 The only reason to watch Nemesis is the Battle of the Bassen Rift, and the ship battles in Insurrection were a lot weaker in comparison. Without that sequence, Nemesis should drop below Insurrection.
@@bjorn00000 Imo neither is much better or worse than the other. I think my biggest beef with Nemesis -besides the tired old plot of someone seeking revenge for some (imagined) slight and/or something from the past coming back to butt the heroes in the behind (which seems true of every other Trek movie as well; especially the 2009 Trek and its sequels) - is the fact that Picard acts so out of character in this movie. The whole Shinzon/Scimitar thing just comes out of left field with no logical explanation as well... major flaws the 2009 reboot has as well but somehow pulls off rather better.
Prodigy is the true sleeper of the franchise, IMO, and every episode of the back half has made the show better and better. It is THE one of the five series currently on air (Nov 2022) that leaves me with awe and wonder and joy and makes me feel the way the older series did in the 90s when *I* was a kid. I know some "serious" fans automatically want to skip it because it's targeted more towards general and family audiences (note: this is NOT a "kid show", heck, there are some moments in their Borg ep that rival even their most horrifying TNG/First Contact/VOY depictions) - the first few episodes are rough around the edges, almost somewhat deliberately, but if you can survive S1 of any other Trek, the first few eps of Prodigy are a breeze comparatively. Everything from the Kobayashi Maru onwards is sheer brilliance, and Time Amok is probably the best time shenanigans AND best disaster episode that *any* Trek series has done
I too was skeptical about how Prodigy was going to approach that age bracket, either swing low and be mind-numbingly dull or swing high to be relatively enjoyable by just about any age. I'd ignored the Star Wars animated series for a long time due to the same fear that they'd low-balled the writing like Phantom Menace. When even some adults who didn't have children suggested giving Clone Wars a go, I did. It started off a bit weak but got stronger over the seasons and finished as a damn fine show. Luckily Prodigy took more than a few notes from their approach to storytelling for a broad audience. It started off fairly strong out of the gate and just gets better. Sure, the writing isn't Shakespeare, but solid storytelling doesn't require flowery prose.
I have yet to see it - Paramount plus went on air today in Germany, and I'm starting with Strange new worlds. I'm not sure if I should look forward to see one of my least favorite main cast member of all times again - yes, I mean Chakotay. And I'm not a big Janeway fan either. hope the new ones carry it.
I started reading this comment and misunderstood the first sentence to seem like it was saying prodigy was the one of the least interesting/worst of the 5 new series so far, and as I felt my blood boiling and teeth getting tight I read on and realized it had actually said it had gone under appreciated among the newest 5 and was really very good. I relaxed and found delight as I read the rest I the comment. I totally agree. Prodigy is great! 👍
I was in my thirties with a very active soclife during the first run of DS9. But it was an inviolable rule that I was home to watch it at 8pm, and its rerun at midnight. I referred to it as my soap opera and made everybody I knew watch it. From th beginning I praised it as the best of Trek, which I have been watching since 1966. Glad to see that the rest of you are acknowledging how brilliant it is!❤
Solid list. I’d rank First Contact a bit higher, and I suspect a few seasons from now SNW will rank higher. I was pleased to see Undiscovered Country ranked above Khan - it’s usually under-rated.
I know this is going to sound like a cop out but I think Kirk and Picard or Stewart and Shatner were equally good captains. Kirk's era was bolder and needed more daring do. Picard's era was more stable, needing philosophy and politics over phasers and torpedos.
STV > Disco any day of the week. Sorry; but you don't get to "bad end" the universe and turn everyone isolationist and pat yourself on the back. What does God need with a Starship > ... well, everything in that series.
Star Trek TOS should be at the top of the list in my opinion. simply because as follows: 1) it was the first series of it's type ever broadcast on television. 2) it was the first series to give people of color leading roles on television. 3) for the technology of the time it was stunning to see on the small screen. I'm so tired of everyone trying to classify the shows of older times with how poor it looked, compared with todays standards. well if they had the tech we do now, I'm positive it would look a hell of a lot better then anything we put out now. A show isn't just about stunning visuals, it's about content and character building. that's like comparing Doom to any PS5 game. for the time and tech of the day Doom was groundbreaking and stunning as a gaming platform.
Thank you for uplifting "Enterprise", Seán. It's my 2nd favourite "Star Trek" series. "TOS" was my #1 favourite. I want Manny Coto to continue the "Enterprise"'s 5-7th seasons, not Kurtzman or Bergman/Braga. "Strange New Worlds" is better than "Discovery".
I would never rank any one of the series ahead of "The Wrath of Khan", "First Contact" or "The Voyage Home". And DS9 went to full "war" mode in the last season that I did not enjoy. That being said, the only bad Star Trek is when there is no new Star Trek.
I can't rank the shows and the movies together as they're different animals, with one an outgrowth of the other (unless there's ever a Kelvinverse TV series). But here's mine, from best to worst: FILMS: Voyage Home, First Contact, Wrath of Khan, Beyond, Search for Spock, Motion Picture (from my formative years as a Trekkie so it gets a lot of leeway with me), Undiscovered Country, Insurrection, 2009, Into Darkness, Generations, Nemesis, Final Frontier TV: Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Deep Space Nine (a 3-way tie with those), Next Generation and Original Series (also pretty much tied), Discovery, Animated, Prodigy, Enterprise ,Voyager, Picard. Can't really count Short Treks as it doesn't feel like a TV series but rather a series of shorts, like the MCU One-Shot short films, and they feel like a thing all to themselves or at least should be broken up as extensions of the above listed shows. I love them all, but not all equally. Voyager, Picard and Enterprise have great episodes and frustrating episodes. Discovery's Klingons look awful. Generations and Insurrection have good stuff but have weird issues galore, 2009 took 3 viewings before I could decide if I liked it. Into Darkness was good but really didn't need to be made. Nemesis has good stuff but was mostly relentlessly and depressingly grim in tone. And Final Frontier... some good things, sure, but I gotta be in the right mood to watch it because, yeah, it's bad as a whole.
I personally wouldnt have ranked DS9 as the best Star Trek. For me TNG wouldve ranked number 1 as i always loved the iconic characters, and the changing scenes. DS9 being focussed on a starbase felt alot of the same to me, and didnt draw my attention too much. So my personal ranking would be, from best to worst: The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Deep Space 9.
I just watched it. The first season is much better than I expected it to be. You basically have to get through the first four or five episodes and the rest of the season is really engaging.
It’s all subjective and it’s not really important but the notion that Voyager is considered BETTER than Star Trek 2 & 6 is insane to me!?! Voyager is the very reason Enterprise failed, neither show really used their great premises in a thorough compelling way, Voyager is the epitome of retreading the same tired stuff. That’s crazy! Lol
Discovery's issue to me isn't the diversity of the cast. It's the unnatural way they handle that diversity. The dialogue comes off as CW preachy rather than making it feel like real life. And I say this as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. I keep watching Discovery but I do have to say that I cringe at a lot of the dialogue.
It is not really just that but in first seasons before I stopped watching there was lack of character development, there was Burnham and she was solution to everything, she was crying a lot and all other crewmembers were like static observers, also spore drive destroyed magic of travel because everything was instant, there is no feeling of how wast is universe and for me that's a problem. In general I like SNW also Lower Decks and even that really kid cartoon Prodigy, when it comes to new Trek but old Trek I love, DS9, TNG, Voyager and even Enterprise.
@@stipe3124 they haven't really fixed the whole crew issue. Theres a few standouts but many of the crew are given these weird scenes where Burnham talks them up while their doing a mission and they get their hero moment than some of them leave the ship or die lol. But none of it feels earned it just feels like an info dump to check a box. The writing is just bad. Im with you Strange New Worlds is great. So is Lower Decks. Hopefully Picard and Discovery learn from those shows.
@@Ravenna_Black That's why I love SNW, it's just a character show where all member have a role and nobody is left out, Lower Decks is the same. Also this kind of character shows are the best, that's also the reason why for example I love Orville which is not Star Trek but is also completely Star Trek.
I agree with you. The problem is that the diversity feels shoehorned rather than just assumed, as it would be in the Star Trek universe. This is why I've always said that the problem with Discovery is the writing. I think the actors are doing the best they can with the material they're given.
This list must be for amateurs who only knew of Star Trek since 1994 when you look at the new track, the captains or the first officers are questioned by the officers and crewman over and over again when they make Decisions, everybody talks into their breath that shouldn’t be how a ship is run
Ooh, this is fun: BAD: 25. Nemesis 24. Into Darkness 23. Final Frontier 22. Disco (saved from last place by season 2) 21. TAS MEH: 20. Short Treks 19. Picard 18. The Motion Picture 17. Insurrection 16. Enterprise 15. Voyager 14. Generations FUN: 13. Beyond 12. Lower Decks 11. Search for Spock 10. Prodigy 9. SNW 8. Star Trek 2009 7. First Contact CLASSIC: 6. Undiscovered Country 5. Voyage Home 4. TOS 3. TNG 2. Wrath of Khan 1. DS9
13:15 - There are 4 big problems with DISCO: (1) Their technology is universe breaking. (Spore Drive, personal transporters, etc.) (2) Michael Burnham is a Mary Sue. (3) Plagiarism. (4) Writing (or rather, not writing) for a season long arc. Frankly, all 4 reek of incompetence. (1) seems so obvious that it's easy to avoid. Indeed, all they needed was some tangible drawback (and a range) and the Spore Drive could have been fixed; but then they double down with future technology that should solve everything... and then just have not everything be solved for some reason. Oh, that reason is bad writing. (2) is the most forgivable; if you want William Riker to be the main character... and related to everyone... and super hot so all the characters love him; knock yourself out? It's bad writing, but it's not universe breaking. (3) is just inexcusable. And if you're going to plagiarize, pick something better. (4) is incompetent, but the kind of incompetence that is widespread. I don't think that's an excuse, but it is very common in halfassed, fly-by-night tv show productions. And it shows.
My favorite Star Trek time period was the early 1980s movie period so #1 for me will always be "Wrath of Khan " The worst for me was "Discovery" simply because of the original time period it was set in (approx 9 years pre TOS) and it spit in the face of continuity of what that time period was supposed to look like.
discovery is a no go for me because of wacky writing and truly forced diversity. im ok with diversity, but it should be, as anything in art, a tool of storytelling and not a reflection of real-life agenda. look at The Magicians: there are a ton of diverse characters, but they are so well blent into the story, you cant even differ them from the others.
Aside from the, um hasty ending, my biggest problem with Enterprise was that Archer never bought the drinks. C'mon, you think Shran wouldn't have loved bourbon? I'd have liked to have found out.
Ok really Original series at 16? 16!!!! That should at least be in the top 5. I am glad you put The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 at the top. Star Trek 2 should've been higher!
This is a good list, but generational in selection. For my generation, TOS was different than anything on TV. TAS was an awesome taste of what was, and the anticipation of TMP was a cultural event. I'll never forget lining up at the theatre and seeing our heroes and the Enterprise on the big screen for the first time. I feel these three series should rank higher. BTW, DS9's ranking is spot on. Great video.
Exactly. There would be no Star Wars or BSG or Babylon 5 without TOS. Back in the day, the popular shows were Beverly Hillbillies, Manix, I Love Lucy. Star Trek TOS turned on a generation, who went into rocket science because of it.
Just want to say that I love Discovery, absolutely love it, and don't understand those people who keep thrashing it. OK, everybody has their own preferences, but really, all those who hate Discovery and only have bad things to say about it can go to... Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire. (If someone of them do not get it, watch "My Fair Lady", worth it, might improve your taste.)
Couple notes. First, on The Animated Series: I found myself enjoying it way more listening to it as a radio drama with some visuals -- honestly the storytelling is pretty tight and approaching it that way gets around the dated animation. I actually enjoy it as much or more than TOS this way. Second, on Lower Decks: my sister (who is also a big Star Trek fan) and her husband (who is not very familiar with the franchise) both watch Lower Decks together. And, honestly it appears to hold up well even if you don't catch any of the deep references. I really think they balanced things right in that one. (It also gives them something to talk about after each ep.) Third, on Picard and Discovery both: I enjoy them quite a bit, but the main thing offputting is how their serialized and tense nature made it very hard to differentiate one episode from the next (surprising since I loved the arcs in DS9 so much, but even during theDominion War there was time for a friendly game of baseball).
I finally began watching Animated Series after many years of, basically, rejecting it because it's animation. However, I decided to view them and imagine how the themes/plots could have been/be developed to longer, more thoughtful full series episodes that TOS could have done. I would have liked Dorothy Fontana to write them.
No way is Discovery better than the original series. The characters are unlikeable, the writing awful & it breaks canon a lot. For the most part the acting is bloody awful too, the only decent actors in the show being Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones & Michelle Yeoh.
Following the customary etiquette on social media, first the rant: people often counter criticism of Discovery as being ONLY pushback against diversity, but this ignores valid criticism of real (and persistent) issues that legitimately bother us, non-a**h*les: the Universe revolves around Michael Buhrman. I get that the showrunners tried to go from "ensemble" to "character's journey", but it is too heavy handed. She has to have the best ideas, insights, fights, solutions, she has to suffer the most, to struggle the most... it gets tiresome! Feels more like a single player video game plot than a scripted show, and she can't even decide if she is the Dragonborn, the Doom Marine or Harry Dubois! Now for what I love: I knew DS9 would be on top. DS9 rules! And I'm surprised with how much I agreed with the overall list:-). My only changes would be putting ST:VII and ST: II much higher (perhaps even #2 or #3 and #5 or #6, respectively), and switching Voyager with TOS on the ranking. Another thing I love: whatever experiment current writers are doing, they are doing it only with Disco, because Strange New Worlds, from the same team, is really awesome, and avoids EVERY pitfall from its sibling! It is basically the "second coming" of TOS, and I honestly think they can match TNG or even DS9 if they don't muck up that "Pike's destiny" storyline! Also, following today's good practices, the-- TL;DR: Disco has genuine problems beyond fabricated hate from bigots, DS9 is mostly perfect, and ST: SNW is indeed a shocking, welcome surprise!
DS9 is very much my favourite. currently reaching the end of season 6 on a full re-watch. I felt it had the most complete set of characters, and they all had a fair share of episodes, no cardboard cut outs here. Plus the supporting characters, action, and the list goes on.
I see why you chose as you did. I still think Strange New Worlds needed to be higher on the list, but #5 is still really good. Also, Prodigy needed to be higher. I think people see it as a kids show and therefore isn't as great Star Trek, but I think it is more like movie Toy Story. It has levels to it that reach out to many levels of Star Trek viewing.
Yep, they’re subjective… your opinion. Some I agree with & some I don’t. Same with everyone I imagine. For example, I love Star Trek Into Darkness, & I don’t see it as a remake of Wrath of Khan, because, you know, the whole different timeline thing? 😏
Okay, you got the #1 spot correct but a rating Prodigy as high as you did shocked me-I watched several episodes and it was not geared at me (I’m 62, which maybe the reason why). Lower Decks has a few good episodes but the dialogue is so fast paced-it’s hard to track (again, I’m 62). THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER GREAT VIDEO.
Regarding Star Trek Picard, and especially the second season; as someone approaching the century mark, I find the portrayal of Picard as both very realistic and identifiable. Literature has nothing to do with special effects. Criticisms of Picard should be addressed to the story, not to how many effects were used. That was Roddenberry's issue with science fiction. Not enough plot or character development. The scene where Picard is being led to the "Watcher" is a good example. He needs to slow down because of his age.
I tried my best with Discovery. Captain Burnham is too emotionally unstable. She would be removed from her post if Disco followed Star Trek's established lore. She was brought up on vulcan so, at the very least, would have a stoic personality, but is infact not even stoic enough to be a human star fleet officer. I'm glad people are enjoying it though, as it has meant we have strange new worlds, which feels like we have stepped back into the established lore of Star Fleet. So, as much as I hate it.. Discovery live long and prosper🖖
1) Insurrection fucking rules. 2) you described Nemesis as the "worst next gen film". Which is true but you ranked it higher. Does Adam have beef with the producers of Insurrection? Why the heck do you say these things?
Ds9 "emissary" helped me through serious depression. "Why do you exist here?" It really helped me heal.
The entire subtext of the show is about PTSD. Like you, I find it incredibly therapeutic.
@@BordersJambo “It’s Only a Paper Moon” is also an amazing episode in this regard.
I took away a similar lesson from that episode as well. Glad to hear that it had a positive impact!
DS9 and specifically "Emissary" have truly aided in my recovery from depression/suicidal tendencies. Knowing it’s done the same for others -especially those who came before me, who made Star Trek more popular ➡️ available to me -brings me tremendous joy.
Ds9 was awesome.
First Contact is still my favorite movie
It's the one I show people who don't know what Star Trek is, they've all loved it.
@@Thechezbailey SAME! I show *Star Trek (2009)* first because it’s a bit more “mainstream” and if they like they then *FIRST CONTACT*
Star trek first contact was great star trek 2009. The opening scene always makes me 😢
Picard is a10 hour homage to First Contact
Picard has ended beautifully (so far)
Insurrection is "Low Stakes?"
How many people does it take Seán, before the stakes become high?
A thousand?
Fifty-thousand???
*A million* ?!
*HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE, SEÁN?!*
Right? They’re showing the TNG crew’s really only story that takes place in/about the dominion war and how the Enterprise deals with that, the planet, the people there, starfleet’s treachery, the Son’a… And like you said high stakes with what they should do, and did.
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well done
I like Insurrection very much for that. Picard is a very much by-the-book officer. To have him taking his rank pips off and go "rogue" is a very good example of taking a stand in the face of a higher duty
The biggest problem that Mrs and I have with Disco is the focus around Micheal as the hero of all with constant GALAXY HUGE STAKES in every episode. Disco almost drove my wife away from Star Trek as a whole. Thank goodness for other series out there.
That's my main issue with it too. Michael isn't bad, but she's the least interesting character, in my opinion. I keep watching to stay up to date with the stories, but seasons 1 and 2 were the best to me.
I tried to watch Disco. I really, honestly did.
The show is a disaster and I'm surprised it's so high on the list.
The point I finally gave up was in the fourth season. There was some sort of disaster going on and, for once, the bridge crew started working together to come up with a solution that didn't involve Michael. Then Saru talks up and says to just wait because Michael will know what to do. And everyone is just like 'Oh yeah, how dare we try to have our own autonomy other than nodding agreeably to Michael'.
It is the only Star Trek I can think of that doesn't have a ship and a crew. It has a main character. And that main character is inconsistent as a character and almost feels like a Fan Fiction insert in terms of characterization.
Hubby and I also hate the way she consistently makes everything about her, among MANY, other things...
Yeah, there are some serious problems with the show. That being said, I think it's ALMOST good. It's sorta like Into Darkness: it's full of little moments that I like, but it contains a handful of problems that are so bad that they sour the whole experience.
I also think the majority of the other bridge officers are after thoughts, because this wasn’t really an ensemble in the same way every other trek show has been. I find a lot of the acting from the bridge crew pretty static and stale.
In the early 2000's, I started a new job. When I met one of my supervisors, he asked me one question: "What is your favorite Trek?" Without hesitation, I replied "DS9." He nodded and said "We'll get along just fine." 20 years and three jobs later, he remains one of my best friends.
great story and the best was the last episode of DS9 season 3 where Sisko becomes Captain
As a Gen Xer, let me point out that the fans' love of TOS led to all of the Cons operating today (sci fi or otherwise.) Also, had The Wrath of Khan NOT knocked it out of the park, Star Trek would have been finished. For these points, alone, I'd rank them both much higher.
totally agree
I never thought of that. I can’t imagine how people survived the cliffhanger of Best of Both Worlds when it came out
@zqxzqxzqx. You are so right. For TOS to be ranked below Voyager and Prodigy and Lower Decks (which I love) is evidence of a lack of thought put into this list.
@@sarahkinsey5434I can tell you from experience that it was excruciating 😂😂!! I was around 10 or 11, and not knowing about programming schedules, I checked back every day for months! When I finally caught that season premiere...🤯
What do you expect; the guy narrating this video is clearly about 12 years old, and also a complete idiot.
The only mistake is to put the original series so low and below Discovery.
Discovery is my favorite Star Trek show. TOS is overrated
Yeah, TOS certainly doesn't hold up as well today but Discovery is straight up piss.
Discovery is an unbearable soap opera with even thinner plot.
The Discovery series is by far my least favorite series in Star Trek. If I watch that ship spinning after plugging into one of its crew members, I am going to scream. Bottom of the list for me.
Pretty massive mistake.
Star Trek Into Darkness will forever hold a special place in my heart as it's the last movie I went to theaters to watch with my sister before she passed
Hold onto that memory.
"Data aging out of the role" never made sense to me since it was established in TNG that Data could set his body to "simulate" an aging appearance so as to be able to "fit in" better with the living individuals he associated with.
Appearance isn't the issue. No matter what Data looks like he's still an android with superhuman strength and reflexes and endurance. Brent Spiner simply couldn't keep up with the physicality required for the role, and relying on body doubles and cgi only goes so far.
If I'd been writing it and needed to keep Data around, I'd've had his outer skin get almost completely destroyed whilst saving Picard in Nemesis, then replace Spiner with a new actor, with Data explaining that he felt the need to evolve his appearance away from being an imitation of his creator. Whilst Spiner's performance is iconic, as we've seen it's very possible to imitate it and in time the new actor would bring their own spin to the role.
@@andromidius righttttttt.... and I'm sure you think The Rock does his own stunts 😒
@@topogigio7031 Actually he does. Due to his size, it's difficult to find stunt performers that look believable, and, with his background in wrestling, he enjoys "putting on a show" for his fans.
@@Majere613 sorry but not spiner not data
DS9 has been my favorite since it originally aired. It's something when third tier characters on this show have more growth and development than any main character on any other ST show.
this is my biggest praise of the show i tell people. there are several "tier 3" characters developed and more interesting than main bridge crew of DISCOVERY
When it first aired, I tried to watch it, but couldn't. It just WASN'T Trek. I watched it a few years ago, and today, I believe it's the best.
The fact that Max Grodenchik went from unnamed Ferengi pit boss, to a hardworking Ferengi dad doing his best, to the engineer whose minefield saved the Federation, to Grand Nagus Rom, solely based on the strength of his performance is a testament to good writing and a flexible writing room.
Going through DS9 now. Seeing again with maturity is like viewing it with new eye. Like it now more than I did when it first aired.
ds9 was my Trek. I grew up in the mid 90s and I was lucky to have DS9 and B5
I envy you! I did the same thing about a decade ago. It's so much better when you can understand the dark and mature themes🖖
I watched it in my 40s and now I'm in my 60s, and it's even more meaningful to me now.
DS9 is my all-time favorite Star Trek show. I forget sometimes just how damn good it was. The multiple layers to the characters, the storytelling, the incredible writing and acting... it's just awesome. I always enjoy rewatching the series, even though I know what is going to happen.
In the Pale Moonlight is like a Star Trek take on House of Cards where Ben Sisko draws the viewer in and makes them a co-conspirator with him like Francis Erquhart.
Horrible ranking. Disgusting that you'd put the original series at 16, and you put DISCO at 12. Lower Decks at 3!.. Just a terrible take.
Okay, I just discovered this channel today. And I'm hooked. I must say, my favorite part of your rankings are that you don't really dog on any film/series. You name the good to all of it and maybe mention why it was criticized. I appreciate the positivity to this! It's all totally subjective, so I appreciate that no one really tells anyone they are wrong for picking something as a favorite that others may not like as much.
Also: TNG for life. That is all.
That's an admirable position saying we are all allowed our opinions. That is hardly what I usually get told when I say that Discovery and Strange New Worlds finally got me to love Star Trek.
Discovery almost killed my love for star trek as a whole. Lower decks brought me back.
right?! i assumed it'd be other way around and yet Lower Decks is amazing and DIS is trash
Yeah, while I prefer TNG over TOS, all this stuff trying to "remake" the TOS era is bullshit, the changes in the tech, retconning in bullshit in a pathetic attempt to make a wholey disliked character feel more important by "connecting" them to a existing iconic character. Like ok I get that people can make the excuse of "b-but the technology of TOS isn't "futuristic" enough now" dude the Enterprise was told to F off into the depths of unknown space for 5 years, it makes sense they wouldn't use bleeding edge technology and would choose to rely on more tried and tested and more rebust and reliable tech to do that. If they wanna do more stuff in the original timeline, they got the unexplored Enterprise 1701-B and 1701-C
100% agree!
I'm in the opposite camp. I like disco. Just gotta watch it knowing it's not classic trek. I just can't take a cartoon seriously. I desperately want a new show taking place after ds9 and voy with an all new crew.
@@PeeNile I would also like to see that show
Strange New Worlds has a diverse cast and is awesome. DISCO has a diverse cast and is k-rap. It isn't the casting that makes DISCO so awful, it's the everything else.
People arnt annoyed about diversity in Discovery. It's bad writing. Poor acting. And relying on placing characters into emotional crisis as a substitute for meaningful character development. Seriously if they got 1 episode without someone crying it's a surprise
@@beyerdr well said sir
@@beyerdr I disagree, the actors are great. The casting is awesome, it's just poor follow through and writing on interesting concepts. Also, they have no advisors telling them their science stinks.
Indeed, I find it so incredibly frustrating when Discovery defenders lump any and all criticism into the "you just can't handle diversity, lol" category.
No! NOOOOO! (Breaks little ships)
I like Star Trek, therefore I support IDIC, and I am pleased by the often groundbreaking representation in the casts of the many shows over the years.
Discovery is nonsense though. Incongruous, overly dramatic, cheesy, lowest common denominator tripe.
@@brendancaulfield970 agreed on all counts
DS9 is the best, definitely neck and neck with TNG. Happy to see people are liking voyager more these days. Also really appreciate your take on the newer shows/films
Urgh not like ds9
I might put Voyager a little up to the top but I agree with your list.
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No mention of Galaxy Quest?
I think you had to have lived through all of the shows in order to appreciate each in its place. I was a riveted 6-year old when TOS premiered on NBC and I have watched the entire progression of the various series and movies in real time. I think this list is not bad; however, I would have rated TOS a bit more highly. Again, you had to be alive and watching television 1966 when TOS came out to fully appreciate what it accomplished within the constraints of the time. I do agree with the #1 ranking of DS9, also appreciate Lower Decks, and would put Voyage Home followed by First Contact as the best Trek movies, yes, even before Wrath of Khan.
I didn't live through the premier of TOS but I lived through the rest of them. That's probably the main reason I rank DS9 lower than in my personal list of likes than any other series of the Berman era. Syndication, depending on where you lived, killed DS9. I vividly remember the beginning of season 6. They aired them all in order up until after favor the bold. Instead of sacrifice of angels they aired rocks and shoals again. Then the next week was a football game or something? And the week after that they aired you are cordially invited. I guess they retook the station? I didn't see sacrifice of angels until the next year. By season 7 I had given up, I couldn't follow the story and they needlessly killed Jadzia.
I would love to be able to erase it from my memory and watch it the way millennials have. Also DS9 is undoubtedly better than voyager and enterprise. But it gets too dark and goes places I'm not overly always comfortable with. Voyager is not the best star trek series by to say the least, but it's the one I watch the most. I love the cast, I love the characters, it never fails to make me smile.
Because of the modern 10 eps a season format, no series will have as many good episodes as DS9. TNG is the first and only time star trek became must see TV while it was in first run, when it was at it's best it was better than DS9, but DS9 didn't have a season as bad as season 7 of TNG, much less season 1 of TNG.
I think growing up on TOS counts, too. I was in college by the time TNG came out. TOS started it all and should be revered.
I’ve always thought you probably had to watch TOS when it first aired to really appreciate it. I feel guilty for not loving it but it’s just too dated for me. I love the characters and movies, but then I could see them when they first came out though.
Excellent! Thinking of the same. I was 20 when it first screened in my area on Sept. 12, 1966. Yes, it does help to see them in their respective 'time zones'. TOS seems kind of clunky, campy at times, certainly with the scantly-cladded 'oh-la-la ladies' with their ridiculous hairdos, all to draw in horny 14-17 year old boys. But TOS was bold, so different from Sci Fi of those days with at times, really interesting with thoughtful themes, plots. To me, Discovery, Picard, and especially Strange New Worlds seems to me to be excessively 'too busy', brashy at times. But, it may/probably resonate to Millennials, Gen Z with their close affinity to tech (not all of them, I know) and brought up in a world very different from my youth. This, I think, might be part of that fabric of 'subjectivism'.
You don't need to have watched TOS when it went out originally to appreciate it
I wasn't born anywhere near the Original run and for me it's right at the top with TNG. Top tier television regardless of time or genre.
My own list:
25- final frontier v
24 - Picard
23 - Disco
22 - shorts
21 - ST: Insurrection
20 - ST : Into Darkness
19 - nemesis
18 - Motion picture I
17 - animated series
16 - Star Trek beyond
15 - Star Trek new film
14 - prodigy
13 - voyage home
12- undiscovered country 6
11- wrath of khan 2
10 - search for Spock 3
9 - original series
8 - Star Trek generations
7 - strange new worlds
6 - Enterprise
5 - Voyager
4 - first contact
3 - tng
2 - lower decks
1 - DS9
I am glad you reminded me that it's a matter of opinion (which you are of course right on) because two choices on and I couldn't disagree more.
My thoughts exactly!
25: Star Trek: Insurrection
24: Star Trek V: Final Frontier
23: Star Trek: Prodigy
22: Star Trek: Discovery
21: Star Trek: Nemesis
20: Star Trek: Enterprise
19: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
18: Star Trek: Lower Decks
17: Star Trek: Animated Series
16: Star Trek: Generations
15: Short Treks
14: Star Trek: Into Darkness
13: Star Trek: Picard
12: Star Trek: Beyond
11: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
10: Star Trek
9: Star Trek: Voyager
8: Star Trek: The Original Series
7: Star Trek: The Voyage Home
6: Star Trek: First Contact
5: Star Trek: Search for Spock
4: Star Trek: Undiscovered Country
3: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
2: Star Trek: The Next Generation
1: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
So glad to see Lower Decks so far up the list. That show is just a blast and fun to watch. Agree with your top choice Deep Space 9 is the best.
I totally second that!
I've never understood the hate for Insurrection. The fact that it is like a long episode of TNG is why I like it. Personally, I have no problem with the diversity of Discovery, rather that they make such a big deal about it as if it's new to Star Trek. Here is my list from Worst to Best:
Discovery
Picard
Into Darkness
Short Treks
Nemesis
The Final Frontier
2009
TAS
Generations
Beyond
TMP
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The Search for Spock
Strange New Worlds (may go higher)
Undiscovered Country
Prodigy (may go higher)
Lower Decks
Insurrection
Voyager (could benefit from character growth)
The Voyage Home (whales!)
Enterprise (So much untapped potential)
TOS
Wrath of Kahn
DS9 (The Characters! But last 2 seasons dragged for me, depsite good stories)
First Contact
TNG (The Stories!)
How are they making a big deal out of it?
I don’t like insurrection because it’s quite frankly just dull. it’s the most boring movie of the franchise.
@@KainsAddiction Who?
And you haven't answered my actual question. You just restated your claim. Can you substantiate it?
@@KainsAddiction Again, who?
So I can give an actual shit about your opinion.
@@KainsAddiction Watch "!Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" from TOS and tell me all about how the older series "diversity" wasn't in your face or pushing an agenda. I'll wait.
The Original series NUMBER SIXTEEN. THIS IS...... LUDACRIS
The genius of DS9 is that it's different. Whilst I love most of trek (including disco, I can look past the teary bit and enjoy 10C as an extragalactric high-on-karadshev scale non-humanoid civilisation). DS9 didn't just have a great cast and characters, but it also made you think. Everything was relatable. The cardassians as a resource-poor nation that out of pure desperation goes to war, gets knocked down, but instead of getting "past" itself and getting help, there's elements that seek back former glory. The cardassians are a tragic people, beautifully written. Even Dukat, while obviously insane at the end (but with a reason) is relatable. The Dominion is another beast. The fact that their power is introduced by blowing up something equivalent to a hero ship is scary. But the revelation of who is behind the Dominion, and why they do it, ties back beautifully to some of the main characters. Even the Section31/Romulans are very nicely interwoven. Whilst Rodenberry would probably disagree on some of it, even he can't deny himself a few 'badmirals' once in a while. So all things considered... DS9's morally gray starfleet ánd federation are great, as it feeds back into the fear the founders have. The only thing I wish had a bit more fleshing out and feedback is the whole prophets-thing. Wish we would've known more of them. Who they were/are, their nature, etc... Guess I'm too much Dax-like to just accept that they "are of bajor".
I knew DS9 would be number one; I'm teaching "Far Beyond the Stars" next week! So glad to see Enterprise getting more attention; it is a really great series!
My wife uses "Pale Moonlight" to teach Point of View in her Junior High English class. Cool to know she's the only ones using DS9 to teach!
I never miss an opportunity to remind viewers that "Far Beyond the Stars" is not only a nearly perfect Star Trek episode, but that it is also a nearly perfect Twilight Zone episode. Perhaps you could challenge your students to compare the two series, and discuss how "Far Beyond..." would fit equally well into either of them.
I like it too. Wish they could've continued it in a newer series or a movie. Maybe Jolene and John might agree to either as they don't want to do a series anymore. He might be only 5 yrs. younger than I, but she's 20 yrs. younger and 47 is too young to retire. I miss them all.
@@lucstone7167 Thats awesome and I can see it working so well, you really don't need to know the universe or a lot of backstory to show it to people who have never seen DS9 or Star Trek. I still watch that episode at least once or twice a year.
I agree 100%
I'll readily accept that TOS doesn't have to be number 1 but 16th does it a great disservice. It is the root of all things Star Trek, after all.
Agreed. I think it should be in the top ten at least.
Enterprise starting to get the recognition it deserves! Vindication!
Much like the Starwars prequels. It's only after a decade or more that you realize it's far from being as bad as you thought.
There's still some annoying parts/episodes/characters, but the series as a whole is really good.
The 4th season was spectacular (I was not into the Xindi thing, and since it was the story of the whole season, I got tired and stop watching... Until last year and WOW).
The planned 5th season with the revamped Enterprise looked pretty good.
It should be number one on the list!
@@PaulFagundes Doesn’t Enterprise literally have the WORST final episode of any Star Trek series?
@@mapleflag6518 Absolutely. I've viewed the entire run numerous times, but can't bear to rewatch even one second of the catastrophic finale! Most heinous were the gratuitous killing off of Trip, and then the unwelcome hijacking of the episode by the pompous TNG characters.
@@PaulFagundes The final episode is what prevents Enterprise from being #1
Star Trek Discovery isn't criticised for having a diverse cast, it's criticised for Micheal Burnham being an awful main character (especially in season 1) and some shockingly poor/lazy writing . Burnham could have been adopted by any Vulkan family but was placed into Spock's family (which felt very forced), is a complete Mary Sue (due to poor writing), became the saviour of the universe because of plot requirements (REALLY lazy and poor writing) and should have spent her life rotting in a Federation prison for disobeying orders (which caused a devastating war), assaulting a superior officer and causing said superior officers death! The only bright spot in the entire series was Pike in season 2 which was rewarded with a spin off series. With a divisive lead character and so many writing issues you can't blame people for rejecting the series.
Yes you can also complain over political correctness but that's always existed in Star Trek, the problem is the way it's presented. It's no different from when Doctor Who went from subtly talking about real world themes, ideas and problems throughout an episode to Jodie Whittaker starting directly into the camera and lecturing the audience for five straight minutes about environmentalism! There are ways to bring up topics in nuanced ways, present both sides of the argument and allow the audience to make their own decision. Classic Star Trek from ToS to Enterprise could do this, modern Star Trek can't and that's what people mean when they say 'it's not real Star Trek'. Same goes for Star Wars or Doctor Who.
I think Nemesis gets a bad wrap...I really liked it. Where as I think that Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home gets sooo much love. I like it but not as much as most.
100% agree about Nemesis. It's one of my favorites.
I'll join in here. Me too.
Nemesis is underrated, especially if you like space battles.
TVH getting placed above TWOK is really wild to me, it's super clear that TWOK is by far the best of the movies.
I do agree with his placing I2D down so far; even being kind of a cumberbatch stan from his work on Sherlock. It wasn't a great idea to try and rewrite the best of the TOS movies even though I felt cumberbatch was effective in his role as khan, he definately knew how to play that insidious genius part perfect though.
I really appreciate Nemesis. I'm glad they did it so Insurrection wouldn't be the last Next Gen movie
For me the shows from best to worst are:
1. Deep Space Nine
2. Discovery
3. The Next Generation
4. Strange New Worlds
5. Voyager
6. Lower Decks
7. Enterprise
8. Picard
9. The Original Series
10. Prodigy
11. The Animated Series
The movies from best to worst
1. The Undiscovered Country
2. First Contact
3. The Voyage Home
4. The Wrath of Kahn
5. Star Trek Beyond
6. The Search for Spock
7. Generations
8. Insurrection
9. Star Trek 2009
10. The Motion Picture
11. The Final Frontier
12. Into Darkness
13. Nemesis
Placing Lower Decks higher than Khan is pretty egregious.
Well, we both ranked TNG 2nd but I think that's as far as the similarities go lol. We have very different lists - which is why it is great to have so many different series as there is something for everyone. I started to check out the article, but then I saw Prodigy was 24th and checked out right there.
I can't say I've ever considered ranking the films and shows in the same list before; they are such different formats it's like comparing apples and oranges.
Totally agree that Star Trek has something for everyone. With so much to choose from there are going to be different lists amongst people.
Also I agree with the fact that you don't rank series and films on the same list.
@@robertszekely8686 agreed, this list is far from mine.
Don't agree with all of them but I loved seeing the Voyage Home ranked so high. Great work as always Sean.
@13:11 I've literally never seen that argument. This sounds like a very disingenuous statement. The main criticisms are: Infallible Mary Sue, Inconsistent lore regarding the casual usage of "curse words", the Spore Drive being incongruous with Starfleet Tech, The Super Tech that doesn't fit the timeline (phase shifting ships, time traveling Iron Man suit)
Nope. It's all "Michael is a black woman, they have a non-binary cast member, two of the characters are openly gay..." blah blah blah. 🙄
Honestly, it's pathetic.
Although it hurts my feelings I have to admit I despise Star Trek discovery. And it's solely because the captain Michael Burnham just doesn't do it for me. Has zero to do with being a woman see Captain Janeway. It has nothing to do with her ethnicity, she just simply does not come across as Captain material. And because of that I can't take it serious and I can't watch it. Probably the only Star Trek series that I have dismissed.
I've never heard anyone, who wasn't on the left, bring up diversity in Discovery. Most complaints I've seen are that it's just badly written and too fixated on Burnham specifically, rather than more of an ensemble cast, and the retcons - a perpetual adversary of all Star Trek fans.
And the people on the left who bring it up are always people complaining about people complaining about diversity, but without any real sources.
The last episode of Enterprise wasn't bad... it was just an atrocious final episode for a show that doesn't involve Bob Newhart.
Wow!!! So, many issues. Who wrote this list...What Culture Star Wars? The placement of Star Trek 2 and TOS is criminal.
For sheer watchability
1. DS9
2. TNG
3. TOS
4. Wrath of Khan
5. ENT
6. VOY
7. Undiscovered Country
8. First Contact
9. Search for Spock
10. Beyond
11. TMP
12. Star Trek ‘09
13. Prodigy
14. Voyage Home
15. Strange New Worlds
16. Lower Decks
17. Generations
18. Star Trek V
19. Animated
20. Insurrection
21. Nemesis
22. Into Darkness
23. Disco
24. Short Treks
25. Picard
I like most of your picks. I think your top ten is good. I may have disagreements with the entire list. Nothing personal, but everyone has their own opinions. 🖖
I agree with your #1 and #2.
The rest - not so much.
@@BordersJambo that's the beauty of star trek. It means different things to different people 🖖🏽
@@robertszekely8686 thanks, we're lucky we have so much to choose from 🖖🏽
@@rafaelsays175 logical 🖖
I agree with DS9 being #1.
It has everything you'd want in a ST show.
This should be "Star Trek: Every Film & TV Show Ranked from Good to Awesome". Hate all you like, I loved all of it
I’m confused. Sean said that Nemesis was the weakest TNG film but why was it listed higher than Insurrection?
I wondered about that myself. Imo Nemesis belongs at the bottom of the list.
@@jasontoddman7265 The only reason to watch Nemesis is the Battle of the Bassen Rift, and the ship battles in Insurrection were a lot weaker in comparison. Without that sequence, Nemesis should drop below Insurrection.
@@bjorn00000 Imo neither is much better or worse than the other. I think my biggest beef with Nemesis -besides the tired old plot of someone seeking revenge for some (imagined) slight and/or something from the past coming back to butt the heroes in the behind (which seems true of every other Trek movie as well; especially the 2009 Trek and its sequels) - is the fact that Picard acts so out of character in this movie. The whole Shinzon/Scimitar thing just comes out of left field with no logical explanation as well... major flaws the 2009 reboot has as well but somehow pulls off rather better.
It's the beauty of trek that I can think disco is the low point of trek, but that at the end of the day we all just want more trek. What a universe
Prodigy is the true sleeper of the franchise, IMO, and every episode of the back half has made the show better and better. It is THE one of the five series currently on air (Nov 2022) that leaves me with awe and wonder and joy and makes me feel the way the older series did in the 90s when *I* was a kid.
I know some "serious" fans automatically want to skip it because it's targeted more towards general and family audiences (note: this is NOT a "kid show", heck, there are some moments in their Borg ep that rival even their most horrifying TNG/First Contact/VOY depictions) - the first few episodes are rough around the edges, almost somewhat deliberately, but if you can survive S1 of any other Trek, the first few eps of Prodigy are a breeze comparatively. Everything from the Kobayashi Maru onwards is sheer brilliance, and Time Amok is probably the best time shenanigans AND best disaster episode that *any* Trek series has done
I too was skeptical about how Prodigy was going to approach that age bracket, either swing low and be mind-numbingly dull or swing high to be relatively enjoyable by just about any age. I'd ignored the Star Wars animated series for a long time due to the same fear that they'd low-balled the writing like Phantom Menace. When even some adults who didn't have children suggested giving Clone Wars a go, I did. It started off a bit weak but got stronger over the seasons and finished as a damn fine show. Luckily Prodigy took more than a few notes from their approach to storytelling for a broad audience. It started off fairly strong out of the gate and just gets better. Sure, the writing isn't Shakespeare, but solid storytelling doesn't require flowery prose.
Prodigy doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves…
I have yet to see it - Paramount plus went on air today in Germany, and I'm starting with Strange new worlds. I'm not sure if I should look forward to see one of my least favorite main cast member of all times again - yes, I mean Chakotay. And I'm not a big Janeway fan either. hope the new ones carry it.
@@PmmGarak it’s better than Picard, if that means anything to you
I started reading this comment and misunderstood the first sentence to seem like it was saying prodigy was the one of the least interesting/worst of the 5 new series so far, and as I felt my blood boiling and teeth getting tight I read on and realized it had actually said it had gone under appreciated among the newest 5 and was really very good. I relaxed and found delight as I read the rest I the comment.
I totally agree. Prodigy is great! 👍
I was in my thirties with a very active soclife during the first run of DS9. But it was an inviolable rule that I was home to watch it at 8pm, and its rerun at midnight. I referred to it as my soap opera and made everybody I knew watch it. From th beginning I praised it as the best of Trek, which I have been watching since 1966. Glad to see that the rest of you are acknowledging how brilliant it is!❤
Solid list. I’d rank First Contact a bit higher, and I suspect a few seasons from now SNW will rank higher.
I was pleased to see Undiscovered Country ranked above Khan - it’s usually under-rated.
Good call, I think that too.
Khan is a great campy action film, but Undiscovered Country had gravitas and was altogether a better film for me.
-Discovery is too close to the best side.
-Nemesis wasn't "that" bad bruh.
Think you should have included Galaxy Quest in this list, arguably a great Star Trek movie
Agreed! Though if we did that, I’d also argue for including Orville. :)
I know this is going to sound like a cop out but I think Kirk and Picard or Stewart and Shatner were equally good captains. Kirk's era was bolder and needed more daring do. Picard's era was more stable, needing philosophy and politics over phasers and torpedos.
Woah… you put Wrath of Khan & First Contact below Undiscovered Country and Voyage Home?? WHAT?? You’re out of your mind, Sean. OUT OF YOUR MIND
STV > Disco any day of the week. Sorry; but you don't get to "bad end" the universe and turn everyone isolationist and pat yourself on the back. What does God need with a Starship > ... well, everything in that series.
With honourable mentions to Galaxy Quest and The Orville (esp season 3)!
Star Trek TOS should be at the top of the list in my opinion. simply because as follows:
1) it was the first series of it's type ever broadcast on television.
2) it was the first series to give people of color leading roles on television.
3) for the technology of the time it was stunning to see on the small screen.
I'm so tired of everyone trying to classify the shows of older times with how poor it looked, compared with todays standards. well if they had the tech we do now, I'm positive it would look a hell of a lot better then anything we put out now. A show isn't just about stunning visuals, it's about content and character building.
that's like comparing Doom to any PS5 game. for the time and tech of the day Doom was groundbreaking and stunning as a gaming platform.
Thank you for uplifting "Enterprise", Seán. It's my 2nd favourite "Star Trek" series. "TOS" was my #1 favourite. I want Manny Coto to continue the "Enterprise"'s 5-7th seasons, not Kurtzman or Bergman/Braga. "Strange New Worlds" is better than "Discovery".
Everything's better than Discovery.
Enterprise is awesome
ANYTHING is better than Discovery.
I would never rank any one of the series ahead of "The Wrath of Khan", "First Contact" or "The Voyage Home". And DS9 went to full "war" mode in the last season that I did not enjoy. That being said, the only bad Star Trek is when there is no new Star Trek.
I can't rank the shows and the movies together as they're different animals, with one an outgrowth of the other (unless there's ever a Kelvinverse TV series). But here's mine, from best to worst:
FILMS: Voyage Home, First Contact, Wrath of Khan, Beyond, Search for Spock, Motion Picture (from my formative years as a Trekkie so it gets a lot of leeway with me), Undiscovered Country, Insurrection, 2009, Into Darkness, Generations, Nemesis, Final Frontier
TV: Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Deep Space Nine (a 3-way tie with those), Next Generation and Original Series (also pretty much tied), Discovery, Animated, Prodigy, Enterprise ,Voyager, Picard. Can't really count Short Treks as it doesn't feel like a TV series but rather a series of shorts, like the MCU One-Shot short films, and they feel like a thing all to themselves or at least should be broken up as extensions of the above listed shows.
I love them all, but not all equally. Voyager, Picard and Enterprise have great episodes and frustrating episodes. Discovery's Klingons look awful. Generations and Insurrection have good stuff but have weird issues galore, 2009 took 3 viewings before I could decide if I liked it. Into Darkness was good but really didn't need to be made. Nemesis has good stuff but was mostly relentlessly and depressingly grim in tone. And Final Frontier... some good things, sure, but I gotta be in the right mood to watch it because, yeah, it's bad as a whole.
I personally wouldnt have ranked DS9 as the best Star Trek. For me TNG wouldve ranked number 1 as i always loved the iconic characters, and the changing scenes. DS9 being focussed on a starbase felt alot of the same to me, and didnt draw my attention too much. So my personal ranking would be, from best to worst: The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise, Deep Space 9.
Wow, putting Prodigy above First Contact?
I think I need to finally give that show a watch
I just watched it. The first season is much better than I expected it to be. You basically have to get through the first four or five episodes and the rest of the season is really engaging.
It’s all subjective and it’s not really important but the notion that Voyager is considered BETTER than Star Trek 2 & 6 is insane to me!?! Voyager is the very reason Enterprise failed, neither show really used their great premises in a thorough compelling way, Voyager is the epitome of retreading the same tired stuff. That’s crazy! Lol
Discovery's issue to me isn't the diversity of the cast. It's the unnatural way they handle that diversity. The dialogue comes off as CW preachy rather than making it feel like real life. And I say this as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. I keep watching Discovery but I do have to say that I cringe at a lot of the dialogue.
It is not really just that but in first seasons before I stopped watching there was lack of character development, there was Burnham and she was solution to everything, she was crying a lot and all other crewmembers were like static observers, also spore drive destroyed magic of travel because everything was instant, there is no feeling of how wast is universe and for me that's a problem.
In general I like SNW also Lower Decks and even that really kid cartoon Prodigy, when it comes to new Trek but old Trek I love, DS9, TNG, Voyager and even Enterprise.
@@stipe3124 they haven't really fixed the whole crew issue. Theres a few standouts but many of the crew are given these weird scenes where Burnham talks them up while their doing a mission and they get their hero moment than some of them leave the ship or die lol. But none of it feels earned it just feels like an info dump to check a box. The writing is just bad.
Im with you Strange New Worlds is great. So is Lower Decks. Hopefully Picard and Discovery learn from those shows.
@@Ravenna_Black That's why I love SNW, it's just a character show where all member have a role and nobody is left out, Lower Decks is the same.
Also this kind of character shows are the best, that's also the reason why for example I love Orville which is not Star Trek but is also completely Star Trek.
I agree with you. The problem is that the diversity feels shoehorned rather than just assumed, as it would be in the Star Trek universe. This is why I've always said that the problem with Discovery is the writing. I think the actors are doing the best they can with the material they're given.
This list must be for amateurs who only knew of Star Trek since 1994 when you look at the new track, the captains or the first officers are questioned by the officers and crewman over and over again when they make Decisions, everybody talks into their breath that shouldn’t be how a ship is run
Lower Decks higher than Voyage Home. No just... No
Ooh, this is fun:
BAD:
25. Nemesis
24. Into Darkness
23. Final Frontier
22. Disco (saved from last place by season 2)
21. TAS
MEH:
20. Short Treks
19. Picard
18. The Motion Picture
17. Insurrection
16. Enterprise
15. Voyager
14. Generations
FUN:
13. Beyond
12. Lower Decks
11. Search for Spock
10. Prodigy
9. SNW
8. Star Trek 2009
7. First Contact
CLASSIC:
6. Undiscovered Country
5. Voyage Home
4. TOS
3. TNG
2. Wrath of Khan
1. DS9
Beyond was the best Spock and Bones back and forth since TOS
13:15 - There are 4 big problems with DISCO: (1) Their technology is universe breaking. (Spore Drive, personal transporters, etc.) (2) Michael Burnham is a Mary Sue. (3) Plagiarism. (4) Writing (or rather, not writing) for a season long arc.
Frankly, all 4 reek of incompetence. (1) seems so obvious that it's easy to avoid. Indeed, all they needed was some tangible drawback (and a range) and the Spore Drive could have been fixed; but then they double down with future technology that should solve everything... and then just have not everything be solved for some reason. Oh, that reason is bad writing.
(2) is the most forgivable; if you want William Riker to be the main character... and related to everyone... and super hot so all the characters love him; knock yourself out? It's bad writing, but it's not universe breaking.
(3) is just inexcusable. And if you're going to plagiarize, pick something better.
(4) is incompetent, but the kind of incompetence that is widespread. I don't think that's an excuse, but it is very common in halfassed, fly-by-night tv show productions. And it shows.
My favorite Star Trek time period was the early 1980s movie period so #1 for me will always be "Wrath of Khan "
The worst for me was "Discovery" simply because of the original time period it was set in (approx 9 years pre TOS) and it spit in the face of continuity of what that time period was supposed to look like.
It would have been so much better if it was set around same time as Pricard.
discovery is a no go for me because of wacky writing and truly forced diversity. im ok with diversity, but it should be, as anything in art, a tool of storytelling and not a reflection of real-life agenda. look at The Magicians: there are a ton of diverse characters, but they are so well blent into the story, you cant even differ them from the others.
Aside from the, um hasty ending, my biggest problem with Enterprise was that Archer never bought the drinks. C'mon, you think Shran wouldn't have loved bourbon? I'd have liked to have found out.
I named my kittens George & Gracie.
Ok really Original series at 16? 16!!!! That should at least be in the top 5. I am glad you put The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 at the top. Star Trek 2 should've been higher!
Agreed
This list is horrifically wrong. Wow, so bad I'm speechless.
I don’t disagree but what major reordering would you do?
Stop clutching your pearls, this list is Seans opinion, the way he feels, it doesn't mean this is set in stone.
We’ll you were close with the exceptions:
#1: Enterprise
#2: Voyager
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#25: TNG
This is a good list, but generational in selection. For my generation, TOS was different than anything on TV. TAS was an awesome taste of what was, and the anticipation of TMP was a cultural event. I'll never forget lining up at the theatre and seeing our heroes and the Enterprise on the big screen for the first time. I feel these three series should rank higher. BTW, DS9's ranking is spot on. Great video.
Your excuse is bias?
Pass.
Exactly. There would be no Star Wars or BSG or Babylon 5 without TOS. Back in the day, the popular shows were Beverly Hillbillies, Manix, I Love Lucy. Star Trek TOS turned on a generation, who went into rocket science because of it.
Ok I don't know who's making this list, but voyager is not better than wrath of khan, undiscovered country or first contact...
I would absolutely put TOS above Prodigy and Discovery. Otherwise, a good set of rankings.
Just want to say that I love Discovery, absolutely love it, and don't understand those people who keep thrashing it.
OK, everybody has their own preferences, but really, all those who hate Discovery and only have bad things to say about it can go to... Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.
(If someone of them do not get it, watch "My Fair Lady", worth it, might improve your taste.)
Couple notes. First, on The Animated Series: I found myself enjoying it way more listening to it as a radio drama with some visuals -- honestly the storytelling is pretty tight and approaching it that way gets around the dated animation. I actually enjoy it as much or more than TOS this way.
Second, on Lower Decks: my sister (who is also a big Star Trek fan) and her husband (who is not very familiar with the franchise) both watch Lower Decks together. And, honestly it appears to hold up well even if you don't catch any of the deep references. I really think they balanced things right in that one. (It also gives them something to talk about after each ep.)
Third, on Picard and Discovery both: I enjoy them quite a bit, but the main thing offputting is how their serialized and tense nature made it very hard to differentiate one episode from the next (surprising since I loved the arcs in DS9 so much, but even during theDominion War there was time for a friendly game of baseball).
I finally began watching Animated Series after many years of, basically, rejecting it because it's animation. However, I decided to view them and imagine how the themes/plots could have been/be developed to longer, more thoughtful full series episodes that TOS could have done. I would have liked Dorothy Fontana to write them.
@4:25 Wait, Nemesis "is easily the weakest of the next generation films"... but Insurrection is lower? What the whoodangdittydo are you talking about?
No way is Discovery better than the original series. The characters are unlikeable, the writing awful & it breaks canon a lot. For the most part the acting is bloody awful too, the only decent actors in the show being Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones & Michelle Yeoh.
Following the customary etiquette on social media, first the rant: people often counter criticism of Discovery as being ONLY pushback against diversity, but this ignores valid criticism of real (and persistent) issues that legitimately bother us, non-a**h*les: the Universe revolves around Michael Buhrman. I get that the showrunners tried to go from "ensemble" to "character's journey", but it is too heavy handed. She has to have the best ideas, insights, fights, solutions, she has to suffer the most, to struggle the most... it gets tiresome! Feels more like a single player video game plot than a scripted show, and she can't even decide if she is the Dragonborn, the Doom Marine or Harry Dubois!
Now for what I love: I knew DS9 would be on top. DS9 rules! And I'm surprised with how much I agreed with the overall list:-). My only changes would be putting ST:VII and ST: II much higher (perhaps even #2 or #3 and #5 or #6, respectively), and switching Voyager with TOS on the ranking.
Another thing I love: whatever experiment current writers are doing, they are doing it only with Disco, because Strange New Worlds, from the same team, is really awesome, and avoids EVERY pitfall from its sibling! It is basically the "second coming" of TOS, and I honestly think they can match TNG or even DS9 if they don't muck up that "Pike's destiny" storyline!
Also, following today's good practices, the--
TL;DR: Disco has genuine problems beyond fabricated hate from bigots, DS9 is mostly perfect, and ST: SNW is indeed a shocking, welcome surprise!
This is a very brave thing to post!
Oh good, what I want is at the top that's me satisfied 😂
Diversity is one thing, but making that the main point for every character in every episode is why people don't like Discovery.
DS9 is very much my favourite. currently reaching the end of season 6 on a full re-watch. I felt it had the most complete set of characters, and they all had a fair share of episodes, no cardboard cut outs here. Plus the supporting characters, action, and the list goes on.
Didn’t know which way it was gunna go. I think I agree. DS9 is pretty flawless after season 1, although it wouldn’t have been that way without TNG.
its my favorite too!
if they hadn't killed Jadzia off and then ignored her completely in the retrospective...still my favorite series, but that was stupid
i'm sorry I like Star Trek: Insurrection its really fun and i like that its an extended episode of Next Gen
I see why you chose as you did. I still think Strange New Worlds needed to be higher on the list, but #5 is still really good. Also, Prodigy needed to be higher. I think people see it as a kids show and therefore isn't as great Star Trek, but I think it is more like movie Toy Story. It has levels to it that reach out to many levels of Star Trek viewing.
There is no universe in which Discovery is not the worst entry into the ST lexicon.
Yep, they’re subjective… your opinion. Some I agree with & some I don’t. Same with everyone I imagine.
For example, I love Star Trek Into Darkness, & I don’t see it as a remake of Wrath of Khan, because, you know, the whole different timeline thing? 😏
Agreed. Into darkness is absolutely in the top 3 trek movies in my opinion
And I do absolutely agree with Sean that Star Trek IV (aka, the one with the whales 😊) is the most fun of them all!! 😊
Absolutely and well said.
One big “up” to me for ST Enterprise was that it was the first show in widescreen format and not filmed with a potato.
Okay, you got the #1 spot correct but a rating Prodigy as high as you did shocked me-I watched several episodes and it was not geared at me (I’m 62, which maybe the reason why). Lower Decks has a few good episodes but the dialogue is so fast paced-it’s hard to track (again, I’m 62). THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER GREAT VIDEO.
Agree with you about Prodigy, but think that's me rather than it. Same with Lower Decks, which I love, but is unwatchable without subtitles for me.
Regarding Star Trek Picard, and especially the second season; as someone approaching the century mark, I find the portrayal of Picard as both very realistic and identifiable. Literature has nothing to do with special effects. Criticisms of Picard should be addressed to the story, not to how many effects were used. That was Roddenberry's issue with science fiction. Not enough plot or character development. The scene where Picard is being led to the "Watcher" is a good example. He needs to slow down because of his age.
I loved in the Mad Magazine spoof of Voyage Home, where the whales George & Gracie were renamed John & Yoko.
In my opinion, it is a crime to put Wrath of Khan next to Enterprise.
I was skeptical of the list, but patient up until Wrath of Khan. It is clearly the best of all the movies and would be top 3 overall in my estimation.
I have been a Star Trek fan for forever and I’m just now seeing this channel! Pure good 😊
You're in for a treat! :)
Discovery beats the Original Series, and by several ranks? ::flips a table and blocks channel forever::
Thanks for giving shout outs to to Gul -Ducat Kai -Winn and Garak but my ❤ will always belong to Kira
Just can’t stand TOS being one lower than 2009
I tried my best with Discovery. Captain Burnham is too emotionally unstable. She would be removed from her post if Disco followed Star Trek's established lore. She was brought up on vulcan so, at the very least, would have a stoic personality, but is infact not even stoic enough to be a human star fleet officer. I'm glad people are enjoying it though, as it has meant we have strange new worlds, which feels like we have stepped back into the established lore of Star Fleet. So, as much as I hate it.. Discovery live long and prosper🖖
Ds9 was my favorite story wise.
same here
1) Insurrection fucking rules. 2) you described Nemesis as the "worst next gen film". Which is true but you ranked it higher. Does Adam have beef with the producers of Insurrection? Why the heck do you say these things?