actually i loved tng the series but the movies sucked. on average they were pretty mediocre or like tv episodes up on the big screen.

Generations, first contact, insurrection all felt like tv episodes extended. Nemesis is probably the only one which tried for the big theatrical movie appoach and failed miserably. The shows strengths were that it was a serial based show with some stand alone episodes and the characters had a chance to be developed through seven seasons but they never really did develop at all. Deep space nine had much better writing and characterization but Lacked the Spacehip Earth type thing. Well at least until they put in the defiant but a little too late.

And now Patrick Stewart is more well known to the kiddies as Professor X of X-men than Jean Luc Picard. That being said i always Liked Kirk, bones, and spock they were so much better characters and the old show was very clearly a space western. Then when During Star Trek II came along meyer made it into a naval type series like horatio hornblower.