All versions of Star Trek have their high and low points. The debate should be which ones managed to do that enough times. Because that’s more of a subjective measure people are going to differ on what they like, so we get the disagreement of what’s “best” or “real”. In the end they all are tied to the Star Trek universe and concepts, just aren’t the same in how they present and tell the stories. I don’t like Discovery for a number of reasons, but I have seen a few parts where it felt TOS/TNG Star Trek level for a bit.
And I know this is just visual media, but I’m a rarity who likes the alternate future of the Star Fleet Battles board game that was based on TOS ships and history but expanded much differently ways. TNG and later loosely used some of the ideas in their various plots. The Borg are absolutely a variant of the Andromedans, sans a cube ship.
All versions of Star Trek have their high and low points. The debate should be which ones managed to do that enough times. Because that’s more of a subjective measure people are going to differ on what they like, so we get the disagreement of what’s “best” or “real”. In the end they all are tied to the Star Trek universe and concepts, just aren’t the same in how they present and tell the stories. I don’t like Discovery for a number of reasons, but I have seen a few parts where it felt TOS/TNG Star Trek level for a bit.
And I know this is just visual media, but I’m a rarity who likes the alternate future of the Star Fleet Battles board game that was based on TOS ships and history but expanded much differently ways. TNG and later loosely used some of the ideas in their various plots. The Borg are absolutely a variant of the Andromedans, sans a cube ship.