TNG is great but it does drag in the first season. If you don’t mind that, just watch it start to finish. But that’s boring to me. The best narrative arcs, to me, involve the Borg, the annoying quandary known as Q, and Data. So, start with the double episode premiere of TNG, and then refer to this bigass wiki for more.
last i heard, cave johnson’s legal boys abandoned him, and the whole crowd of them is drinking at a seedy bar in philadelphia called paddy’s