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TOS deserves a mention for assisting with civil rights and having massive balls to flip the bird to the establishment arbiters. Always good.
But if we are talking pure genius of creativity: Tie between TNG and new BSG for me.
With an honourable mention of TOS for its own creative merits and using clever analogs to explore philosophy and ask interesting questions. Real sci-fi is always anthropological by nature. It always explores some fear or national mood or basic human condition - and it does so through imaginative means. This is its greatness.
But if we are talking pure genius of creativity: Tie between TNG and new BSG for me.
With an honourable mention of TOS for its own creative merits and using clever analogs to explore philosophy and ask interesting questions. Real sci-fi is always anthropological by nature. It always explores some fear or national mood or basic human condition - and it does so through imaginative means. This is its greatness.