Do you think TNG was the best star trek TV series ever?

It is probably the "best" in terms of high brow TV. Some episodes were groundbreaking stuff.

I saw the episode "Tapestry" as a young kid and as someone with severe anxiety, it taught me that it is okay to make mistakes. That really put a new perspective on my life because I was terrified of making mistakes. I thought that mistakes made me a lesser person. To date still my favorite Star Trek episode.

That said, over all my favorite Star Trek series is still Deep Space Nine.

I was gonna bring that up, loved that episode. Is it universally loved by TNG fans?

No, its the second best after DS9

Q episodes) which are generally not well regarded

What?

Some Q episodes, including Tapestry, are based entirely on magical nonsense. Sci-fi fans don't particularly care for magical nonsense because we like everything to have an internal consistency and rules to the way the universe functions.

But Tapestry is strong enough with its character conflict, storytelling and messaging that it overrides this.

Tapestry and several other Q episodes are highly regarded by fans.

Q eventually became a good character.

His introduction in episode 1 as basically god judging humanity, while Picard makes the argument that humanity has already reached enlightenment (they haven't), in a sci-fi show was not great however.

I saw the episode "Tapestry" as a young kid and as someone with severe anxiety, it taught me that it is okay to make mistakes. That really put a new perspective on my life because I was terrified of making mistakes. I thought that mistakes made me a lesser person. To date still my favorite Star Trek episode.

At least there's a positive take on Tapestry. I saw it while in between jobs, and let's just say it would've given me an existential crisis at any other time lol.