Uhura and maybe Scotty are the only cool people in TOS. If you want good characters, you gotta hold out for Miles "The Real O'G" O'Brien.

I keep thinking about that one TOS episode where the moral is that you shouldn't beat your wife because who's gonna cook you breakfast?

Chekov fucking sucks. He's just there for cokic relief, but every joke is just shitty womanizing or Chekov is just a brainwashed Russian.

Sulu is the coolest

idk and we're going to look back on DS9 the same way eventually.

the things that TOS did right, i.e. racial and national diversity, women in the workplace at all, a black woman 3rd in command, a russian character on TV who wasn't a cartoon villain, miniskirts at a time when that was a symbol of the liberation movement rather than objectification, and so on are things we take for granted and for a couple decades now modern viewers don't have much to contrast against the stuff that we've grown beyond.