I would say DS9 was the best series if it didn't feel like sacrilige.  I would say:

1.TNG

2.DS9

3.VOY

4.ENT

5.TOS

I go by simple enjoyment alone.  VOY was a fun series for me after the first season or two.  ENT could feel like work trying to plow through it.  TOS is the only series I've never seen every episode of.  It's just too hard to watch in the 21st century. 

Isn't it funny that after TNG, the theme songs just got progressively lame with each new show?

So it seems that TNG is the overwhelming favorite and others are a mixed bag.  Personally, my order of preference is..

1.  TNG

2. DS9

3. TOS

4.VOY

I refuse to put ENT up there among the Star Trek shows though.

Voyager took some getting used to, but I started looking forward to new episodes after a while. I have to agree with the majority's view on Neilix.

I still haven't seen the last season due to Time Warner's cancelling their contract with WB just as it started and reruns didn't seem to be in any particular order.  My interest in seeing the final season had also waned considerably, so I can't say that Voyager was particularly captivating. 

I know I can watch the last season on the internet, but I've already set that time aside to scratch my ass.

I like TOS in the same way that I like Red Dwarf.  The cheesiness is the biggest draw IMO.  I get a good laugh seeing those old episodes.

Wow, Solam.  Black font on black paper?  Or perhaps you're posting from a site that has a white background.  Most of the Stardock gaming sites use a black background.  I think Demigod is the oddball on that one. 

Sorry Elemental site is Beige. I had not noticed.

OMG, there's a bit of a personal trivia about such decision by some mysterious distributor(s) here in Montreal too!

During summer '00, CFCF12 had cancelled the 7th season scheduling since (as they claimed) the contract was much more costly.

Bill Merrill (God rest his soul, he died a few months later), then Vive-President of Programming, received a few eMails from me in September and i suspect some more from other fans & viewers. We used to watch it on Saturday evenings at 19:00 for six long years and all of a sudden, we'd have to miss the whole conclusion? No way, i reasoned;

Copy of my initial protest letter on the 2nd of September...

******

This letter is from Laval (Yes... on the north side of MTL, air brains.)

Having watched for over six years, this incredibly popular Paramount's scifi series with attention... it was extremely disappointing to see (after this evening's "LIVE FAST AND PROSPER" rerun) that your station has decided not to carry the last episodes of their final season. If this is your definition of customers relation,  you'd be surprise to learn that one of your most faithfull viewer is seriously considering to no longer view channel 12 in Montreal.
I don't care who was crazy enough to take that decision... but here's a few toughts for smart(?) executives out there;

"How about loosing your licence of transmission from the CRTC?"
"How about keeping my favorite show on until the real ending?"
"How about a quick drop in any future audience ratings?"
"How about Stargate SG-1 more than once a week at 4 o'clock in the middle of the night?"
"How about public excuses for having us hooked for so long?"
"How about Cosmos 1999, daily?"
"How about playing National league baseball in January, outside, under -40C conditions?"
"How about Montreal is a North-American city?"
"How about the english community is now feeling excluded from the rest of the world?"
"How about reruns of Babylon-5 beginning in the third week of July 3417?"
"How about replacing Science-Fiction with an hour long dog food publicity?"
"How about showing us the, extremely well earned, proper respect?"

I don't have Rogers-Videotron-Cogeco 60-Ohms cables hanging outside my appartment building,  RCA-Starchoice-RadioShack satellite dishes shivering in windy winter weather or even a decent fully stereophonic 45" wide television set in the basement near the fireplace... but i know one thing though; i am very sad tonight by your insulting behavior. CFCF12... right? You are in Montreal, but are you on planet Earth?

"How about you can't handle public relations unless STAR-TREK Voyager airs until it is over and done by the producers?"

*******

and his response on the 15th;

Shran was one of the best Characters in Enterprise. That actor also played weyoun in DS9 I just loved it when he got killed regularly and always came back smiling LOL

I personally liked Voyager as well, though I could understand why some people would think it's crap. I mean some of the characters like Neelix got a bit annoying at times, and 7 of 9's character was extremely overused, I mean even I could only take so many episodes of her trying to regain her humanity. I liked Janeway however, she was a well rounded character, I also liked she was a scientist before becoming captain, and she acted as such. I really enjoyed the chemistry of the crew, I think it all came together quite nicely. They do weaken the borg considerably, however, voyager never actually takes on a borg vessel and wins single-handedly like some people seem to think. That is, until End-Game, where they annihilate a major borg installation, and drive the final steak through the heart of the borg. I only had two major problems with Voyager, their over reliance on time-travel stories, I mean I think there's 6 or 7 episodes where time gets messed with and the finale. I mean the battles were nicely done when they were fighting the borg, but it didn't really bring me a sense of closure for the series, I would have liked to see the homecoming and what the crew does on their arrival. Speaking honestly, Voyager probably is the weaker of the series but of course that's like saying Arnold Schwartznegger is the weaker of the austrian bodybuilders, doesnt mean he still cant rip me in half vertically.

DS9 as stated before had absolutely horrible 3 seasons. Pre-Jem'Hadar, it was alot of petty drama and Major Keira was a cold and confrontational. I mean I could understand that to a point, but they seemed to drag that out alot more than they should have. The only thing I just could not stand is the Prophets vs Pah-Wraiths storyline, that drove me absolutely mad. Especially when they killed off Jadzia Dax, and then bringing back a dax character again with a much more annoying and much less attractive version, felt like them spitting on the character. Overall though, when stupid Sisko wasn't going on about the prophets (I mean everytime they had a pah-wraith episode I was rooting for them, anything to shut up Sisko about the prophets)it was a good show.

TNG had a rocky start in seasons 1 and 2, especially with 2 bringing in a different doctor whom nobody really liked, but after that TNG was probably the best trek of the franchise. I'm a bit too young to have seen the original series, but everytime I watch reruns of TOS I can't help but laugh at some of that stuff they show.

Enterprise I despised with a passion, in order for me to like a show I have to like the crew, and T'pal (sp?) pretty much killed that for me single handedly. She had Kiera's cold pre-season 4 demeanor, but a more snobby look to her face and a completely unlikeable character. I never got past season 1, so perhaps later it got better. I gave it 16 episodes and then quit.

Star Trek has always felt like a show about moving forward anyway, at least to me, throwing us backward to a pre-1701-era (where somehow there is still an Enterprise), just felt like a dumb move to me. I don't have any higher hopes for the upcoming movie either. I mean honestly, if they dont want to make the TNG era shows or movies, just let the franchise rest for a bit, instead they drawing it out on a medieval Rack, until I'm sure it looks like a slinky now.

Just struck me as weird they decided to sorta undercut the original 1701 that started the franchise. I mean if theres a Enterprise prior to the 1701, than the whole naming system is thrown off for the other shows, the original ship should have been 1701-A, and so on. Sorta nit-pick but it bothered me.

Interesting factoid about the name though, thanks for that

I recant!  If it's in that show I must be wrong.

Also technically, the Starfleet we know from TOS and after wasn't there yet in ENT. It shouldn't have been named NX-01 at all, just Enterprise and something arbitrary.

MarvinKosh: Raider1988 has a point though. The registration number always stayed the same for ships of the same name. The different incarnations with other classes are depicted by the letter.

Anyway, ENT doesn't exist, so it's all moot

Those weren't different ships. The Excelsior had the registration number NX-2000, because of its experimental transwarp drive. Experimental ships always have NX. Once the transwarp project failed, the Excelsior became NCC-2000, with the conversion to normal warp drive, in 2287. Captain Sulu took command over the Excelsior in 2290.

Although there is some discrepancy on the registration number of the USS Defiant. Initially it had NX-74205. After it got destroyed, another Defiant class ship was renamed to USS Defiant, though some sources say it got NCC-74205 others say it stayed NX-74205. I don't have my DS9 DVD collection (or a rip) available right now, so I can't check myself.

// ah, after the destruction, they just reused the old scenes with the Defiant, so you would mostly still see NX-74205, even though NCC-74205 would be more fitting.

You all seem ton forget that NCC 1701 is a FEDERATION STARSHIP registry and the NX-01 is a starfleet ship the federation did not exist yet. Registry entries are bound to change once the federation is born.

As for the DS9 glitch in registry I read somewhere that the producer made a mistake and once it was done it was done.