just tell me this....which did you prefer? ST the Next Generation? or Deep Space Nine?
What a great question! Obviously like me you are a Trekkie!
I want to share a memory before I answer.
I'm old enough to have seen the TOS broadcast premiere on network TV back in the 60's. In fact TOS is another great Chris memory. (I am at this moment tearing up remembering) The night TOS premiered on TV, I was over at Chris's house, and Chris, his older brother and me watched it! We were just knocked out by Kirk and the boys! The memory of Chris and me running around in his parent's house imitating phaser sounds that night is as clear as a bell. We really pissed off our mothers! They were busy in the kitchen doing unexplainable mommy stuff and didn't like us running thru the kitchen making weird noises. Star Trek was thereafter a bond with Chris and myself, we even went to several conventions together in the 1980's.
As for TNG and DS9: well, I saw every episode of both. I have positive things to say about both. I think that Jean Luc Picard is my ideal of a Captain. Decisive,yet thoughtful and intellectual. And, I always suspected that Capt. Picard had a boyfriend tucked away hidden somewhere in space and time.
On DS9 I really liked the character of 7 of 9, she really reminded me in a way of someone struggling to come out of their closet. I admired her decisivness and ability to function like Spock did on the TOS. I guess I have to vote with TNG as the better of the two, overall. I have the complete collection of all of the episodes of both series. D.L. loves to watch them, he was too young remember much of TNG in its early days, much less TOS! And, I guess I serve as a source of Trekkie trivia for him.