Do yourself a favor and at the very least watch TAS "Yesteryear". It's a timey wimey Spock episode and it's fantastic. Better than many TOS episodes.
Over all, TAS is better than its reputation, which doesn't mean it's good, but it isn't too long either. It has its moments. Yesteryear is peak but others are worthwhile as well
Most of TAS is as good or better than TOS, story-wise. You just have to get past the animation.
I've only watched through TAS once so I don't really remember it clearly or have a strong opinion on it, but was it really all that bad from a story and writing perspective, or was it just kind of cheaply produced so people give it a harder time than it deserves?
The first two seasons of DS9 are good, though. It's unique among Berman-era Trek in that regard.
I used to call it the best Trek, until Lower Decks surpassed it.
Ignore any Kazon episode and Voyager is just fine.
(Except that one episode where some Kazon decided to play with a replicator. That one was kinda cool.)
I like the one where Chakotay and Nog get stranded on the planet full of traps
Why is this so accurate?
Enterprise Season 4 is an acne faced teen trying to figure out modern episodic/myth arc storytelling, but it’s 2-3 episode mini arcs are Peak Star Trek.
And the latest season of SNW is just garb*ge but DIS really gets better over time
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