SamuraiFrog was first on the block with this Star Trek-themed meme, and it looks like I’ll bringing up the rear, as I’ve seen that it’s already made the rounds. Still, I can’t resist doing this one, even if it’s already passe…

First, as a courtesy to readers who aren’t as nerdy as myself, here’s a handy key to the acronyms you’ll be encountering:

• TOS = The Original Series
• TNG = The Next Generation
• DS9 = Deep Space Nine
• VOY = Voyager
• ENT = Enterprise

YOUR FAVORITE:
Star Trek Series: The original, of course. Is there any other possible answer? I grew up on TOS so I naturally have the strongest attachment to it, but I also think it’s the purest expression of the concept, certainly the most iconic for non-Trekkies (everybody knows Kirk and Spock, lines like “Captain, she canna take much more!,” etc.), and — for me — it’s the most entertaining of the various series. While I enjoyed TNG and DS9, they never had the same energy or joi di vivre, and VOY and ENT were simply tedious.
Star Trek Movie: You know, I’m going to buck conventional wisdom here and say Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. While it’s one of the cheaper-looking entries in the series and suffers from some pretty big plot holes, it’s also the one that I feel most captured the tone of TOS, i.e., humor and action floating on top of big ideas, all tied together with the camaraderie of the crew. Everyone in the cast got their little moment (which did not require them to be the butt of the joke, as in later Trek movies) and Shatner delivered one of his finest moments as an actor (when he learns the Klingons have killed the son he was only just starting to know).
Star Trek Character: McCoy. Years ago, I would’ve said Kirk or Spock, but I’ve grown to love Bones as I’ve gotten older. If Kirk is the show’s bravado and Spock its intellect, Bones is the conscience. He’s the one who always poses the moral question, and who shows genuine bravery in the face of frightening uncertainty. And he’s often pretty damn funny, too. He is quite simply the most human of “the big three.”
Star Trek Pairing: If we’re talking romantic pairing, I’d say Worf and Jadzia Dax on DS9, the only romance any of the Treks ever managed to really sell over an extended period (as opposed to one-offs, like Captain Kirk’s assorted flings, or the longer-term relationships on the later series that just didn’t work). As for platonic pairings — the later shows, in particular, tended to split their large ensembles into smaller “friendship groupings” — I thought Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir’s “bromance” on DS9 was pretty effective, but of course nothing compared to the original Kirk-Spock relationship.
Alien Race: The Gorn. How can you not love a six-foot-tall rubber lizard dude? (Seriously, “Arena” is one of TOS’s best episodes and I would’ve liked to see more of this species. I understand they turned up on ENT… but of course, I didn’t watch ENT.)
Alien World: Risa, i.e., the sexy fun-time planet that was apparently Commander Riker’s favorite vacation spot.
Federation Starship: The “refit” Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Simply a thing of beauty, both in terms of the on-screen universe and from a real-world, awesome-special-effects perspective.
TOS Episode: This one is tough, like asking me to choose my favorite child. The best expression of the series’ philosophy is “The Devil in the Dark,” in my opinion, and it’s a fine episode as well. But for nail-biting suspense, you can’t beat “The Doomsday Machine”; for character development, there’s “Amok Time” and/or “Obsession”; for a lighthearted romp, “I, Mudd” or “Shore Leave”; for gut-wrenching drama, “The City on the Edge of Forever”; and for sheer freaked-the-hell-out-me-when-I-was-a-kid weirdness, “Charlie X.”
TNG Episode: It surprises me, but I actually have a hard time choosing here as well. The contenders: “The Best of Both Worlds”;”Family”; “The Inner Light”; “Tapestry”; and whatever the one with Picard shouting “I see four lights!” was called…
DS9 Episode: Hm. This one is tricky because, as the show became more serialized in its later seasons, the individual episodes ceased to stand out in my mind. Also, I don’t remember a lot of the episode titles for this series. “The Visitor” was great; I also liked “Far Beyond the Stars” (the one where Sisko imagines himself as a 1950s sci-fi pulp writer… or did he imagine it?) and that one where Sisko and Jake build a solar-sail ship as a father-son project.
VOY Episode: I lost interest in Voyager very quickly and no longer remember any of the show’s specific storylines, so I can’t say I even have a favorite.
ENT Episode: I didn’t watch Enterprise at all. No favorite here.
Star Trek Quote: My favorite is actually an exchange between Spock and his inter-racial parents in “Journey to Babel.”

Amanda (Spock’s human mother): I’m sick to death of your logic!
Spock: Emotional, isn’t she?
Sarek (Spock’s oh-so-Vulcan-father): Quite.
Spock: Why did you marry her?
Sarek: At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do…

There’s more warmth expressed there than in a whole case of Hallmark cards.
YOUR LEAST FAVORITE:
Star Trek Series: Voyager, for squandering a really interesting premise in a rush to get back to the same damned old thing. Seven seasons of total mediocrity.
Star Trek Movie: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. After vibrating with excitement for weeks leading up to the release of this one, I was so crushed by what it turned out to be that my non-Trekkie girlfriend turned to me during the closing credits, placed a hand on my shoulder, and said, “I’m sorry.” I know people who say this one has its moments, but no, it does not. Stupid premise, wildly off-model characterizations, lame jokes, piss-poor FX… everything about this one was just embarrassing. It made me ashamed to be a fan.
Star Trek Character: Dr. Pulaski on TNG. She was so obviously meant to be a Bones-like character, but she came across as shrill rather than endearingly crusty. Good thing she only lasted one season.
Star Trek Pairing: Leeta and Rom on DS9. They were cute and funny and a nice break from the big, heavy galactic war storylines, but I just couldn’t buy that a human (Bajoran, actually, but essentially the same thing) could be sexually attracted to a trollish little Ferengi. For that matter, why would a Ferengi find a human attractive, what with their tiny earlobes and such? Trek‘s liberal “we’re all the same under the skin” philosophy only takes you so far before your disbelief simply can’t be suspended any longer…
Alien Race: I can’t recall their name — possibly they weren’t given one — or even which episode they appeared in, although I’m pretty sure it was a TNG segment, but there were these guys who had what looked like a thread of skin running upward from their faces before branching off into their hair. This small detail was incredibly distracting, to the point of interfering with my ability to focus on what was actually going on (probably why I don’t remember which episode I actually saw them in). I just kept wondering how the hell these people comb their hair… wouldn’t the skin-thread thing get snagged in the comb, and wouldn’t that hurt like hell? And is it all messed up or dangling down to their chests when they wake up in the morning? Of all the latex face appliances the make-up guys came up with over however many hours of Trek in all its forms, this one had to be the lamest…
Alien World: Gideon in the TOS episode “The Mark of Gideon,” a planet with no harmful pathogens in the environment, inhabited by long-lived pro-lifers whose bodies regenerate and thus foil all attempts at sterilization. Which means there is effectively no population control of any kind. The episode itself is mediocre, but the glimpses of masses of bodystockinged people trying to get past each other and the descriptions of a place where privacy and solitude are quite literally unattainable dreams… well, it sounds like my idea of hell.
Federation Starship: The Enterprise-E, introduced in the First Contact movie, has never done much for me. My initial reaction was that it was dark and ugly, and anyway I never liked that the producers had disposed of the Big D — the Enterprise-D, which we’d been watching through seven years of the TNG television series — in the very first TNG movie. It was too derivative of the earlier movies, for one thing, since the TOS crew’s Enterprise got destroyed, too. But mostly I think it was damaging to take away one of the iconic visuals associated with TNG so early in the TNG movie cycle… or at all, really…
TOS Episode: Again, it’s like Sophie’s Choice for me. Even the usual picks for worst episode — “Spock’s Brain” and “The Way to Eden” — provide me with some entertainment in their very awfulness. However, there are a couple I have trouble watching because they’re tedious (i.e., boring), and of those the worst is… “And the Children Shall Lead.” Little kids take over the ship with their psychic powers, egged on by a bellowing Los Angeles celebr-attorney who somehow talked himself into a walk-on role. Oy.
TNG Episode: Everyone picks on that clip show that ended the second season, but personally I thought the one where everyone on the ship started devolving into primitive animals was far worse, because it was so ridiculous. The title escapes me, but it was another of those in which people undergo massive physical changes, but are somehow miraculously restored to normal by the episode’s end. Oh, and that one where Riker is abducted by the gray aliens of UFO lore is pretty awful, too.
DS9 Episode: I honestly can’t think of one. As I mentioned earlier, they all started to run together once the show became serialized, and none stand out in my memory as particularly bad.
VOY Episode: Um… all of them?
ENT Episode: I didn’t watch ENT.
Star Trek Quote: Pretty much anytime anybody on TNG said something to the effect of “I can’t believe humanity survived the 20th century.” Which was quite often, at least in the earlier seasons. It was condescending and preachy, and it’s not like we walk around today saying “how did we ever make it through the 17th century?”
YOUR CHOICES:
Trekkie or Trekker? Good lord, are people still arguing about this? I’m pretty old-school, so I tend to use “Trekkie,” and I’ve got no problem with being so designated myself, but really, who cares? Oh, right, insecure teenage fanboys who get their pride bruised if they think someone isn’t taking them and their interests seriously enough.
Kirk or Picard? Kirk. No question. I like my starship captains to end the day with a twinkle in their eye and manly rips in their velour shirts. But as SamuraiFrog pointed out, it’s something of an unfair comparison anyhow, because TNG was a different kind of Star Trek made in a very different time period. The late ’80s weren’t the mid-60s, after all, and neither character would’ve fit into their opposite’s decade terribly well.
Defiant or Delta Flyer? I’d stopped watching VOY by the time they introduced the Delta Flyer, although I am aware of what it is. I still like the Defiant more. Even if it did break the rules of the Trek universe by tucking the warp engines in so close to the body of the ship.
Tribbles or Targs? Tribbles. You ever try to pet a targ?
Coffee, Black or Tea, Earl Grey? Well, this is just silly… I enjoy both, depending on my mood.
Porthos or Spot? I had to look up the fact that Porthos was the captain’s dog on ENT, I guess I’ve got to go with Data’s cat, Spot, on TNG.
Emergency Medical Hologram or Data? Data by default, since I gave up on VOY so soon. The EMH was still pretty much a one-note joke when I stopped watching.
Pah-wraiths or Prophets? They’re basically the same thing, aren’t they? I guess I’ll say the Prophets, since benign indifference beats apocalyptic vengeance. It was an interesting premise, though, learning that one culture’s gods were actually incredibly advanced aliens, and seeing how both parties deal with that revelation…