Star Trek always seemed to conflict with itself. Utopian economy - militaristic lifesytle. Diverse culture - women generally in skimpy pants (don't even get me started on Seven of Nine). Amazingly advanced technology - still lots of drudgery and everything breaks down in bizarre ways.
I think the show needs a few years off and let someone truly revive it. I wish I had the time or energy to hunt down this post for a writer who left Voyager because he didn't like how BnB handled it. Some of his overarching ideas (like what would the characters really do when parted from connections with the military HQ) were excellent.
There was one episode where Picard was revered as a god by some Bronze Age Vulcans that mistake him for their overseer. They almost kill Troi to please "The Picard." I thought, wow, I never thought that you could hit someone over the head with secular humanism, but there you go.
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