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DS9 is my # 1 series, and In the Pale Moonlight the best episode in any series.

Lists like this are always interesting because you can always what the List maker likes and hates. Honestly, whether you like it or hate it, I'm just glad that there is a Star Trek series for everyone.

I still think TOS was the greatest achievement for its time. And I love the musical scores, they're an important element in how re-watchable TOS is.

1. TOS (most rewatchable) 2. DS9 (highest quality) 3. ENTERPRISE (yes, favorite theme-song!) 4. TAS (my introduction to Star Trek as a child) Discovery is dead last.

Sad to see TAS getting so little love. Kudos to Nimoy for sticking up for his colleagues.

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES was an incredible pioneering show which was significantly ahead of its time and ground-breaking in so many ways. For this intelligent and creative element alone, I will always place it as "Number One." Everything else rides its coattails.

In my opinion TOS, TNG and DS9 are the holy trinity of Star Trek series. And DS9 in particular represents the last gasp of top notch writing and acting on TV.

I can watch TOS over and over. So many episodes are memorable. I’m loving Strange new Worlds too.

Regardless of their ranking, we must Trek forward, remember the past, and learn from it.

I mean.... putting Picard ahead of DS9 for the final season? Which is pretty overhyped by a starving fandom. In my book its: TNG - DS9 - ENT - VOY - TOS - SNW - PIC - LD - PRO - TAS - DIS. I woudln't be totally against TNG and DS9 sharing first place and ENT and VOY sharing Second.

I was ten years old when TOS premiered. I can't believe that the world prefers Lower Decks over The animated Series. I guess it really does come down to writing.

TOS is such a trailblazer, so inventive, so well written, so well acted, so influential on culture and even comedy ie Southpark, that TOS is always tops because 60 years later its still top rated on cable at 8pm, it's simply the most popular show in syndication way surpassing even I Love Lucy oh, you just got to realize that Star Trek the Original Series it's probably one of the best television shows ever made I would call it the best television show ever made

Brilliant! "TNG" will always be my #1 golden-age *and* overall "Star Trek" show.

Automatic like for putting Discovery where it belongs

I'm sure this wont be controversial at all !

TNG is hands down the best series. SNW and Ds9 follows. 🖖

I'm glad to see Voyager finally getting the respect it deserves. It's my favorite!

This list is the closest to mine ever. Most lists ends up with Discovery and Picard way too high. But this one is dead on, thanks for making it. I am often split between TNG/ToS as the first spot. I guess what I would want is a ToS-esque series in a TNG setting, where you have more than 3 main characters (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) like TNG, but a more rigid captain like Kirk with rules closer to ToS.The seven seasons of TNG really allowed us to see interesting stories about all characters, including O'Brien (who as spectacular in later seasons and on DS9), and even Barkley, who got closure in Voyager. Imagine ToS having had the same treatment. That said if we get more "classic Trek" I would not mind a series in the "Lost Era" between ST6 and TNG, or just continue after Nemesis (And no Romulus supernova garbage, I like my Romulans and they should explore them like we explored Klingons with Worf, Ferrengi with Quark, and Cardassian with Garrek and the others later). If I could chose exist in a startrek era, I'd definitely place my alter-ego fan-fiction character in the TNG area as a young 18yo around late season2 or early season 3 of TNG. Have a nice evening everyone !

I wonder if The Orville will get at least an honorary mention, as it's the best "Star Trek" series post Enterprise, sure Picard Season 3 wasn't the worst (yet overhyped) but Season 1 left a sour taste in my mouth (and I even skipped season 2) as it's all still stuck in the Klutzman Dystopia.

Glad to see Enterprise get some love in your personal ranking. Highly underrated show, especially the 3rd and 4th seasons. Also, for the last episode... Haha, what will Riker think of next? Writing a program with historical characters that completely changes events that really didn't happen that way. That rapscallion.

I remember when Deep Space Nine first came out, there was considerable fan blow back (mainly during the rough first two seasons) on the cerebral emphasis (?) on the Bajoran religious aspect of the show, and not as much BSU (blowin' s**t up), so, I'm pleasantly surprised that it now ranks as high as it does. Quite the comeback! Most Star Trek shows started out with great promise but tailed off at the end (yeah, I'm looking at you Enterprise and Discovery!). After the first two seasons, I think the writers deciding to frame the Bajoran religion more as a bunch of advanced but not omnipotent "wormhole aliens"! They certainly weren't "prescient" (all seeing), as they were constantly shown to be surprised by the actions of the human characters ("why are you here?", "What is this "time"?), which made them seem less metaphysically god-like and more science fictioney (like Q and the "god" in Star Trek: The Final Frontier)! Another strong aspect of the show, that helped resuscitate the series, was the development of the substantial Dominion War serialized arc, which is the only Star Trek I still routinely binge watch. Also helping revitalize the series was the successful fleshing out of two of the races that were given short shrift in ST:TNG, namely the Ferengi, and the Cardassians. Even the Klingons and Romulans were afforded substantial insights into their cultures. Then, of course, there were a couple of other relatively minor tweaks that helped the show "get their sea legs" so-to-speak, namely the introduction of the USS Defiant, and then there was the introduction of Section 31, the Tal Shiar, and the Obsidian Order, and the wonderfully enigmatic Garak! The Next Generation was limited to . . . well . . . Barkley, I guess!

I greatly enjoyed the ranking and was a bit surprised Discovery was ranked as high as it was. My list would list all the legacy Star Trek in the order they came out with the Nu Trek a bit Different 1. TOS 2. TAS 3. TNG 4. DS9 5. VOY 6. ENT 7. SNW 8. Prodigy 9. PIC 10. Lower Decks 11. STD (and thats a compliment) If I was given the option to take it off the list I would.

I know it’s not a “real” show, but I would have to add Star Trek Continues to this list. I honestly consider it the “next season” of TOS

_VOYAGER #1, BABY!_

1, TOS (The one I grew up with) 2, DS9 (Best written of the TNG Era Trek) 3, TNG (It brought Trek back) 4 Enterprise (Despite the canon breaking, it was a decent prequel attempt) 5 TAS (It really was a decent continuation of TOS) 6, Voyager (It had it's moments) New Trek from Discovery onwards doesn't even register for me.

Love the list. Thanks guys. Do you have a list for the movies? If not maybe for a future video…?

This was really fascinating. I really have never thought that Voyager was that good, and everyone I have talked with or read said the same thing. So am surprised on how high it was on the list. I think Enterprise has always gotten a bum rap, and actually it a lot. While I like the actress who plays the lead on Discovery, I really feel that they drop the ball on delivering a true Star Trek experience, although I do like the fact that Pike showed up and they spun it off.

mostly agree. Just Enterprise needs to be higher. Mid pack at least.

I’m watching the animated series now! It’s surprisingly entertaining!

My list mostly matches Popcast's list, however I would have ranked Strange New Worlds a little higher just above Lower Decks. Interesting how Discovery is way down on the list on both Global ranking and Popcast ranking data. I think some of the takeaway is which series has the most number of compelling characters and stories. Voyager had a solid cast after Season 3. As did some of the others. Thank you for compiling this!

My son and I went to a Star Trek convention when Gene Roddenbury announced that there would be a Star Trek movie, the first one and yes we went to see the movie when it came out. We’re still Star Trek fans!

Enterprise at number THREE!? What!? Is this a joke!?!? This is the STRANGEST list for Star Trek I have EVER seen!!!

My personal head canon is that TOS was the notable Kirk adventures from years 1-3, TAS and IDWs’ Year 4 comics were year 4, and IDW’s Star Trek Year 5 was that final year of the five year mission. Gene Roddenberry does not consider TAS canon, but IDW’s Year 4 and 5 comics clearly are a sequel to TAS. Because Lower Decks considers TAS canon, and IDW’s Year 4 and 5 comics are a sequel to TAS, those comics are at least Alpha and a half canon.

@ThePopcast, very good and fair list on every angle. And the more I personally watch TNG (many I remember almost line by line having seen it during its original run as a child and preteen), that one will probably remain the GOAT Trek series for a long time to come.

Enterprise is the most underrated series of all time. For me is in #2 position.

It makes me sad that the animated series was ranked last. It was a great series. It’s sad that many people won’t give it a chance. I saw it when it aired. It makes me happy that STD is the lowest rated live action series. I rank TNG slightly ahead of TOS in my top 2

When name "Star Trek" is mentioned I pretty much think of "Original Series" and " The Next Generation ".

If Manny Coto had helmed all 4 seasons, it would have been top #3, easily. Coto got what ENT was about, and managed to weave the old style of TOS episode structure into modern day popular TV audience demand. The man created a show called Odyssey 5... and it's reviews hailed it as Star Trek in approach to modern day issues. That's what is missing from NuTrek that The Orville embraces... Tackling modern day issues that NuTrek is afraid to tackle... In case someone calls them out for offending them. Call him what you will... Roddenbury was a brave man to stand against the tide of his era and put humanistic views on his modern day issues on screen with exploration of issues. Not dogmatic prejudgments.

Discovery just started off on the most awkward first step it possibly could. So tied to the past but also ignoring so much canon at the same time.

Wow, great work compiling all the data. Top five seems to be pretty much spot on, but personally I would rank SNW ahead of Voyager, but that is perhaps due to recency bias. TNG and DS9 are easily my two favorites in no particular order and that seems to be the concensus of most.

I have a challenge for you. Rank the top Fan-Made star Trek Video Series. There are a few, but some are more well known than the others!

SNW being 5th despite having only 20 episodes is proof that you can actually do that format today, do it well, and have it be a smash success.

Pleasantly surprised to see Voyager on top of you guys' list 🤜🤛It's my #1 as well and I agree wholeheartedly regarding it's re-watchability. I liken it to comfort food. I got DS9 at #2 and TNG at #3.

DS9 is objectively the best series, but choosing any of them as your favorite is completely understandable.

I think that is a fair ranking.

for me its DS9, TNG, ENT, Voyager,TOS, Picard, Prodigy, Lower Decks, SNW, Disco , TAS

For me (and I am in my 60s), 1st TOS, 2nd TNG, 3rd Enterprise, 4th Voyager, 5th DS9.

Me at the beginning of this video: This will be a definitive list! oh boy!! Me after the first 2 minutes of the video: SOME OF THE PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN WATCH ONE OF THE SERIES?!?!?

I guess now you can do a definitive list of what was the best movies of Star Trek 🙂 . But I did enjoy this video. Keep up the good work

Captain! Seven of Nine sounds awesome

After Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek died R.I.P.

I've been a fan since 1966 and found Prodigy riveting!

Enterprise and Voyager will always be my favorite shows.

most of my favorite moments, characters, etc. are in DS9 and TNG so I guess I fall in with the majority.

My personal ranking 🤔?? ...no.1. is still DS9. 2. Strange New Worlds 3. Voyager 4. Lower Decks 5. TOS 6. TNG 7. Enterprise 8. Prodigy 9. TAS 10. Picard 11. Discovery 🖖❤️

as a fan of the original Star Trek as well, as all of the features made after, I loved Galaxy Quest, and I would love to see continuing stories about those characters.

You need a bud light ranking for the Star Trek Day video Paramount put out

A true Star Trek / Sci-Fi fan , loves all of them ........ makes me laugh when people argue over Star Trek and Star Wars ..... they are Sci-Fi , that is all that counts .......

I love "Star Trek Continues". Should have been on the list as a surprise entry.

The phrase you mean is "taken ABACK" not "taken back".

Glad to see Enterprise in the top 3. It was very different when it first aired, but it really shines on streaming. Also glad to see Discovery dead last. I gave that show more chances than it deserved, but it only got worse. However, if Picard only had S1-S2 I'd definitely rank that below last.

Love watching the old Star Treks on Pluto. Also Picard, Strange New Worlds... awesome! Star Trek & Doctor Who are my two favourite SciFi shows.

Maybe someone voted on this, but they certainly didn't ask me. I've been a Star Trek fan since the Original series debuted in 1966. I would rank the shows in this order.

All I know is that I'm glad I exist in a reality with Star Trek. It's a wonderful creation.

Excellent presentation. The global ranking is perhaps the most accurate list I've come across. I'm pleased to see Strange New Worlds getting a lot of love. Anson Mount plays Capt. Christopher Pike perfectly and could arguably be among the top three captains in the whole series. With Rebecca Romijn as Number One (Una) and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M'Benga, who is in my opinion the best doctor in the series, this spin off has the potential of growing more popular if the writing continually improves. I'm just thankful they pulled Mount's Capt. Pike character and Ethan Peck's version of Spock away from Discovery.

The next generation was my favorite, but I´m watching DS9 for the first time! and oh boy! It's so good!!!

As a "boomer," I am partial to TOS. Like RMB, I am not a fan of (most) nuTrek. It would be interesting to see how the rankings would be if categorized by age.

For the most part I agree. The pop cast ranking is more inline with my thoughts. Good to see Enterprise getting some love. No big surprise that the Nu-trek is dead last.

1-Voyager 2-TOS Bonus-Galaxy Quest 3-TNG 4-SNW Bonus-The Orville 5-Enterprise 6-Lower Decks 7-Picard 8-Animated Series 9-Prodigy 10-DS9 11-Discovery

Did i miss Thursday's stream? Can't seem to find the stream or did it get taken down?

Putting voyager at #1 seems like trolling. But otherwise, no shock at all that the shows at top are the ones that have absolutely no Kurtzman association. Way to go, Alex!

My list is very similar to yours. Enterprise is criminally underrated.

No question…The Next Generation is number one. DS9 and the original series are a close second and third. Go figure the rankings completely match up with me…at least those 3.

Mine would have to be 😂 but I could see your list working 1. The next Generation 2. Stange New Worlds 3. Deep Space 9 4. Voyager 5. Enterprise 6. Picard 7. Lower Decks 8. Prodigy 9. The Original Series 10. The Animated Series 11. Discovery

Honestly, ds9 at 6th place is almost offensive... at least second. ❤

My list: 1 The Next Generation 2 The Orginal Series 3 Voyager 4 Enterprise

I guessed T.N.G. would win, but personally I prefer Voyager, and apart from the tedious Xindi season, S.T. Enterprise.

For me: 11. Prodigy 10. TAS 9. Lower Decks 8.Voyager 7. Enterprise 6. DS9 5. Picard 4. Discovery 3. Strange New Worlds 2. TNG 1. TOS

TOS was by far the best IMO.

Oh and I also forgot, I thought that you said that you guys were going to do a video on captain Seven. Or something like that?

ds9s dominon war arce is my nr. 1 fav story arc maybe even best arc in any tv show i have ever seen.....and i have seen alot.

1. The Next Generation 2. Deep Space Nine 3. Lower Decks 4. The Original Series 5. The Animated Series 6. Prodigy 7. Voyager 8. Enterprise 9. Strange New Worlds 10. Picard 11. Discovery Normally, I would have put everything up to 2005 as the top 6 but Prodigy and Lower Decks are actually good and fresh for me. Also, Tuvok is not the “first black Vulcan” because _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_ had a black female Vulcan as a midwife to Amanda Grayson.

1. Star Trek Voyager 2. Star Trek: The Next Generation 3. Star Trek Lower Decks 4. Star Trek Strange New Worlds 5. Star Trek The Animated Series 6. Star Trek Deep Space Nine 7. Star Trek The Original Series 8. Enterprise 9. Star Trek Prodigy 10. Star Trek Discovery 11. Picard Sorry, but Picard's second season was unforgivable; while Raffi's treatment by Starfleet and her subsequent decline afterwards due to Picard resigning in a first season flashback, is perhaps the perfect example of abandoning Roddenberry's beautiful vision and why people hate Kurtzman era Trek. Also Picard being so uneven and Discovery getting progressively better each season is why it ranks ahead of Picard. I wouldn't be surprised if post season 5, Discovery is in the number 8 spot.

I like that TOS, TNG, and DS9 were in the top 3. My personal list would be: 1. TOS(Started it all) 2. TNG 3.DS9 4. Voyager 5. Enterprise 6. Season 3 of Picard The rest aren't even added since I've tried to watch Disco, SNW, Lower Decks, Picard Season 1 and developed an utter distaste for them. Lower Decks can be better if it was more serious and thought provoking as Star Trek should be instead of an annoying comedy.

I’ll leave out the show I haven’t seen (Prodigy) and just give a top 10. 1) DS9: the show that effectively launched Serialized TV and proved you didn’t have to Trek anywhere to explore the true Final Frontier 2) TOS: a show that consistently overcame the limitations of 60s TV with its episodic story telling, by telling stories worth seeing, and effectively launched sci-fi into the mainstream 3) SNW: a return to Trek’s roots as an optimistic and fun storytelling medium, lead by a Captain I honestly can’t get enough of on screen 4) TNG: the show that struggled for three years to find its voice, began mixing episodic and serialized storytelling, presented some of the greatest Trek we could hope for to propel the franchise forward, but ultimately for me struggled to be a true ensemble show and devolved into just telling stories about Picard and Data and occasionally Worf, with the rest given what normally were fairly weak stories 5) Enterprise: unlike TNG it wasn’t given the chance to find its way after struggling for the first two years before giving us the Xindi in s3 and then finally getting to telling about the origin of the Federation in s4. The show gave me an entire cast of like able characters but struggled for too long with weak storytelling and the unfortunate sexploitation inherited from the success of 7 of 9 in her skin tight suits 6) Voyager: this show had the opposite issues of Enterprise for me, with normally strong stories over the course of 7 seasons, but a cast of characters that I didn’t like besides Janeway, or who struggled to ever create a consistent identity like Chakotay, and an unfortunate regression to a more TNG like episodic nature of storytelling for a show that screamed out to be more serialized in dealing with the struggles of returning home and integrating the Marquis into a Starfleet crew. Ronald Moore leaving this show to do exactly what this show should have been on Battlestar Galactica is why better stories weren’t enough to surpass Enterprise in my rankings 7) TAS: the advantages of giving us the fourth and fifth TOS seasons were bogged down by cost saving issues for the cast, and stories that were sometimes not up to the standards of TOS. 8) Picard: s3 did not work for me at all, I’ve never been a huge fan of TNG as evidenced by its ranking on my list, so pure nostalgia wasn’t enough to keep me interested, I was already bored of the Borg by the time they returned on Voyager, so definitely didn’t need three more seasons of them on Picard, and thought their handling of the Founders proved the writers never actually watched DS9 with how horribly they were used. In all honesty, I much preferred the first two seasons of the show 9) LD: I do not like this show at all, it feels like someone had The Orville described to them, and decided to make Family Guy Trek, but missed out on all the great episodes of Orville and just heard the fart jokes 10) STD: I cannot stand this show at all, I forced myself to get through the end of s2 just because I love Pike that much, but this show just doesn’t work for me at all. Characters only delivering monologues, never having dialogues. Making every single thing the most dramatic thing you’ve ever seen, even just running a marathon, and stopping that for yet another dramatic monologue. Characters that I honestly dislike, not just don’t like. Just the absolute worst Trek ever for me

Absolute crime that lower decks is ranked higher than Enterprise

It's rare that I see Voyager at the top and that's where I always place it. Except for the switch of DS9 and Picard (only watched the first season and then gave up...) this list is what I'd come up with. And yeah... Perhaps I'll go and finally watch the cartoons now that this video poked me into that direction :)

Your top 3 match my top 3 order! Between Strange New Worlds and Star Trek Picard, which one did better on the Nelson rating system? Can you guys do a clip on that or just let me know here?

1. Deep Space Nine 2. The Original Series 3. The Next Generation 4. Enterprise 5. Picard (season 3) 6. The Animated Series 7. Voyager 8. Strange New Worlds 9. Prodigy 10. Lower Decks 11. Picard (seasons 1-2) 12. Discovery

The only thing thats surprising is that TAS was the lowest and STD was so high.

11. Discovery - after that, it's too hard to rank them for me. I consider DS9 and TNG a virtual tie at #1. I like all the rest of them for different reasons, but I can't rank them.

Deep space 9 is my number 1 star trek

The animated series had some fantastic music.

I understand the criteria and method for rankings on the "status quo" list, but I'm not understanding the methodology used for the Podcast ranking, what was the criteria used to build that list?

Now you gotta do the movies

I knew that there had to be more Voyager fans than just a few the past 20+ years!!! about time people are not afraid to admit they like Voyager, used to seem like a bad idea to admit it publicly lol

my list is as follows 1. Voyager 2. lower decks 3. the next generation 4. strange new worlds 5. prodigy 5. picard 7. the original series 7. enterprise 7. deep space 9 10. the animated series 11. discovery

Yes, my list would be almost exactly like this, though I would take out TOS out of the list to be honest. TOS was a groundbreaking show during it's time, and the one that started it all when Gene Roddenberry had no idea if the concept would even work or not.

I think TAS is the least known so it's hurt because of that, it's a great show top five easily. 1) TOS 2) DS9 3) TAS 4) Lower Decks 5) Voyager 6) TNG 7) Enterprise 8) Prodigy 9) Star Trek Picard 10) Strange New Worlds 11) Discovery