Star Trek: Prodigy, an all-ages animated series that is a spiritual sequel to Voyager.Star Trek: Picard, a sequel to the TNG films and, to a lesser extent, Voyager.Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated sitcom set after the TNG era that lovingly and liberally lampoons its tropes.Once you’re through with these shows, you can press on to their various follow-up series from the streaming era: Star Trek: The Next Generation (beginning with season 3).(In the ’90s, nobody was expected to keep track of all that. ![]() Despite these interweaving threads, each series can be watched straight through without the need to bounce back-and-forth to understand what’s going on. The success of TNG would lead to two direct spinoffs, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, whose overlapping runs allowed for a handful of characters and storylines to pass between them. There are a few excellent episodes in those first two seasons, but starting with season 3 will spare you many of Star Trek’s worst hours. This golden age is widely considered to begin with the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, when new showrunner Michael Piller took the helm and built the writers’ room that would guide the franchise for the next decade. This is the era of Picard, Data, Worf, Sisko, Janeway, and Seven of Nine, and it spawned much of Trek’s lingering iconography and cultural memes. ![]() There are huge highlights in both classic and streaming-era Trek, but this is the period of time during which Star Trek was most consistently good, and its legacy continues into many of the modern installments of the franchise. There were never more casual fans of Star Trek than in the 1990s, and the sheer volume of Star Trek being released was staggering. Though the original 1960s Star Trek is responsible for the franchise’s cult following and its survival as a cultural fixture during the long hiatus of the 1970s, the period from 1989 to 1999 was, without a doubt, Trek’s golden age.
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