I started watching DS9 from Episode 1, then it couldn't keep my interest, ok it's a space station, so they don't really go anywhere or do anything cool... wasn't enough trek-like to hold my attention, then Worf came on, and my interest piqued enough for me to try it again, and I discovered a really good show (I've got friends who say worf was the worst thing that happened to the show, but I disagree, I think killing Jedzia Dax was the worst, but at least it was ballsie)
I loved TNG, and TOS, (mostly TNG after season one when it stopped trying to be TOS)
I hated Janeway too much to make voyager watchable (I sat through a couple episodes with friends, but would much rather have been watching Buffy)
Enterprise strikes me as an interesting show, but they hit the rewind button too much, when they realise that something in the story might cause real character growth, kill off a member of the crew, or just be daring, they back off and use any available deus ex machina to set things back season 3 was one of the worst perpetrators of this of any show I've seen, and is likely the reason they lost their timeslot on wednesdays (and had to drop their price to have UPN continue to run the show)
Sadly I think what may have been a great series will be destroyed by the terrible writing of the first few seasons (which will have turned off enough people that it won't be back for 5, or 6)
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