Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Better than TNG, don't @ me.

Deeply underrated in general public, but true Trekkies know the quality of this show. Bit darker tone and most of the stories set in less action styled way giving the strategy development and character development more room. Last season is just pure spectacle.

My favourite of the Trek series, DS9 actually benefited from the lack of Rodenberry's influence. A significant tone darker, with a lot more inter-personal conflict than any of the other Trek series DS9 stands out as the most compelling and best written of the franchise. The final few seasons dealing with the Dominion War in particular were superb. DS9's ability to produce episodes like the low key, but enthralling "Duet" give it the edge over TNG and TOS as Star Trek's best TV outlet.

After finishing DS9, I was slowly won over the brilliance of it. This is the best Star Trek show, maybe by a wide margin. The characters are more real and flawed, the situations more grounded, and the writing sharper than it ever was on TOS or TNG. In spite of how different it is everything else that came before it, DS9 still distinctly feels like Star Trek but shows that it can be biting, realistic, dark, and somehow, keep the Roddenberry spirit alive.

Most underrated Star Trek. Big on addressing important topics like war, racism, sexual identity, remorse, redemption, etc. All of these while introducing a modern character evolution narrative. Only DS9 can offer you Nog, a dis-likeable juvenile criminal, misogynist and overall horrible influence who, very gradually becomes reliable, honorable, brave, war hero, and example of virtue. Or Garak, or Dax, or so many.

In need of a revisit. Once BSG's Ronald D. Moore took the helm, DS9 began a spiritual voyage at direct odds with Roddenberry's philosophical materialism and bootstrap humanism: it's a Deep Space outpost dealing foremost with Holy War and shamanistic succession, stuck (for the most part) in one physical location. Will always be a Dark Horse, but the apocalypse apparently needs them.

One of the best series in the franchise. Period.

It's hard to rate this, some episodes are great, some not so great, but as an indicator to TV networks and recommendation algorithms I say: "more things like this"

The most underrated of all the iterations of Star Trek. Some of the earlier episodes are weak, but each season is better than the one before it. Once the Dominion War starts, the story arc never lets up. The plot is darker and more gripping than any other Star Trek series.

No interest in star dreck