Just finished watching The Cage again. The original series would have been 1000x better if they had allowed Roddenberry to make the show like this. Uniforms were awesome. Story was fantastic. Pike was a better captain. I guess we got it with st:tng in many ways.
I am watching/rewatching TNG in the evenings these days. I had forgotten how bad season one was at times. Season two is much improved. Frakes should have grown the beard sooner. I haven't seen several of these, and I find I like Dr. Pulaski more than I remember.
Season one and season two sucked ass for the most part. Season two had several redeeming shows, though. Measure of a Man is top notch.