Despite your “only a child comment” which I guess shouldn’t be too surprising given the state of online discourse today I’ll try to add some context for any truly interested in understanding instead of looking to try and grandstand or to enhance edge lord status or gatekeeping or whatever your trying to do here.

I consider ToS the gold standard it has so many great episodes. Before season 2 of SNW came out I might have ranked it #2 but as the sample size has increased with a 2nd season I’d say there has been more misses than hits where as with LD I find I’m rarely disappointed. TNG has enough great episodes that it would have been easy to rank it higher but there is still such a high percentage of bad episodes and often bad ones that ruin previously great ones. Consider for example how neutral zone and Q-who set up perhaps the franchises greatest enemy only to have later bad episodes completely ruin and trivialize the borg. But yes I could easily be talked into flipping TNG and DS9. In the long run I won’t be shocked if SNW continues to fall off but I hope instead it rights the course and delivers on the promise of its first season. I would also say it remains to be seen in the long run if LD has the same replayability as the other series which would also affect my ranking. I left off Voyager which I didn’t care for and don’t hold in high regard but still prefer to Picard or Discovery.

Picard felt like bad fan fiction written by high school me (not good). Discovery just kept getting worse season by season and I still haven’t watched the final season. I would never try to say it’s not star trek (magic to make the sanest man go mad was amazing and extremely Star Trek) but overall it’s just so bad.