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After Roddenberry died, the producers tried to make him a scapegoat for everything wrong with ST. The truth is the franchise immediately started going downhill after his death. It lost its unique vision. TNG became more like 'The Love Boat in Space'. Much more like a soap opera. The next series were a deconstruction of the universe (DS9) and a retread of TNG (VOY). After all these years I'm still not sure how to categorize ENT (it had an interesting setting and premise but no real thesis for ST in a post-911 world).
ST universe really lost me right around season 5 of TNG when it started to look like Patrick Stewart wanted to be an action star.
Nutrek is weird - the producers are always downplaying Roddenberry's importance yet they rely almost solely on his vision and his characters. Paramount used the brand to pad their streaming service but sacrificed quality for quantity.
Other than "Bush is right, when you're facing a supposed existential crisis the ends justify the means"
Which is why I specified for Star Trek. Like DS9, though it had a lot of good, it chipped away at the Roddenberry's vision of the future, which I think was more scifi than DS9 and ENT were, so those shows didn't contribute to the ST universe, but instead gave us things like Section 31.