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Strange New Worlds picks up as a spin-off of Discovery Season 2. If there’s one Nu Trek to watch, it’s this.
Discovery and SNW are prequels to TOS. However, Season 1 of Disco is very weak with the exception of one or two episodes. Season 2 is much better and you can probably start here. Then go into S3 or SNW.
Season 3 is where I believe Discovery really shines. It also changes setting entirely. 4 is good too.
Lower Decks takes places shortly after/around DS9/Voy era. So if you’re familiar with 90’s trek, this show is basically like home cooking. You can watch it anytime.
Picard Season 1 and 2 are bad. But if you think of it as non-canon Fan Fiction written by Patrick Stewart, it’s just kinda fun. Season 3 is the final season and is basically the show everyone actually wanted. It’s an epilogue to TNG. There’s a few references to Season 1 and 2, but you can Google the small gaps. You can watch it anytime.
Also, watch The Orville. It’s a love letter to Star Trek, has Trek writers, producers and actors. It’s starts as a dumb comedy that didn’t really know what it’s doing, but by episode 3 they start to find their footing.
Season 2 and 3 and pretty much perfect and IMO as good as the best of Trek. The show gets more serious and the humor takes a backseat to the human element.There’s also Prodigy, which doesn’t run concurrent to Lower Decks or Picard. It takes place a year or two after Lower Decks, meaning Lower Decks may catch up with it. Some of the flashbacks in Picard take place at about the same time as Prodigy, though the main show is a few years later.
There’s isn’t any plot overlap between Prodigy and the other two post-Voyager shows. It takes a few episodes to get going, but once it finds its footing, it’s worth it.