Boldly go?

[Cranyx]

Recently I have gotten into Star Trek, and have been watching the original and TNG online. I'm debating whether or not to continue on to DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. I've heard DS9 is good, but takes a while to get started and feels "soap-opera"ish at times (also the fact that there is no ship seems initially off-putting). In general I haven't heard good things about Voyager and Enterprise but I'm looking for a second opinion.

 

[Zantos]

I liked them all, some people didn't. Try them all out for a few episodes at least. All I will say is that don't expect Enterprise to stick to the original history too accurately, a lot of people give it flak for that but it wasn't actually meant to.

 

[Ando85]

I enjoyed Voyager a lot more than I did DS9. DS9 has way too many of the soap opera emphasis. I'd recommend checking out Voyager. I especially liked it due to Seven of Nine and all the other Borg related stuff.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Voyager was my hands down favorite series. It's pure and simple Star Trek, it's exploration. Voyager has a TON of really cool twisty episodes, the BEST Borg action in ANY Star Trek series, NO Federation political scenes to bore the hell out of you. It's all about Exploration, boldly going where no Man has gone before, which is true since the Delta Quadrant is practically unexplored. The entire series has the crew of the USS Voyager meeting new civilizations and the writing is pretty good a lot of the time too. There's always the underlying plot to it, which is that the crew gets thrown into the far depths of the Delta Quadrant and are now making their way back home, but this series in itself is ALL about going back to space exploration like Star Trek was intended to. None of this sitting around a space station Soap Opera DS9 was, which eventually turned into an all-out war (neither scenario is really appropriate for the series though either)

My dad and I used to watch it almost religiously when it played. He used to joke at the "Magic reset button" episodes where the crew and Voyager got fucked and killed but somehow through a twist of time warpage, they get saved and start back at the beginning of the episode (minus the mess that killed them happening this time of course)

 

[Cranyx]

See, some of the "political scenes" in TNG were my favorite part of the series, Picard's Civil rights speech comes to mind. One thing about Star Trek for me is that even ignoring the sci-fi aspect of it, the show still explores some fundamental and timeless issues, as opposed to what some have told me about the recent shows where it's just a plain Sci-fi.