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I had watched Voyager during its initial run on TV when I was younger. Got the DVDs for TNG and TOS in high school. Just watched DS9 and Enterprise for the first time about 2 years ago. Have seen nothing of Discovery.

Garak and Gul Dukat were fantastic characters. The Dominion wound up being a great antagonistic force. Most of the remaining cast was solid. It had more of an overarching story going on than any other Trek. It took a couple seasons to pick up, but that is a problem every series past TOS has.

I rank DS9 at the top.

TNG also has great characters and great stories. But while still greatly enjoyable, most of its issues are straight black/white problems, whereas DS9 was more shades of grey. Also, I enjoy overarching plots more than independent stories.

TNG is 2nd for me.

TOS is a classic, but has not aged very well. Still great fun for people that enjoy campiness, and still has fun stories to tell.

Enterprise on the other hand has some problems. Very bad first couple seasons, with its best episodes being straight ripoffs of previous series episodes. But it makes up for most of that with season 3 and 4 (except the ending).

I place TOS and ENT fairly evenly at 3rd.

Voyager is a mess. Fantastic premise that is completely wasted and irrelevant. They introduce great antagonistic races like the Viidians, but instead focus on stinkers like the Kazon. Voyager does have some of the best episodes in all of Trek sprinkled here and there imo, but there is so much garbage to trudge through to get there.

As a whole, I have to place it at the bottom.

TLDR:

DS9>TNG>TOS=ENT>VOY