I understand there are two camps to ST fans.
Those who prefer it to be clean, hopeful and free of modern day concerns.
and,
dark, where there are still lots of problems and you need to be sneaky, such as tricking another empire into joining a war on your side when you are at risk of losing.
I much prefer the later. Yeah I'm a political realist
People, who I have never really understood, seem to go on about whomever it was that took over after Gene Rodenberrys death ruining the franchise. There are a lot of things about Star Trek I disagree with, which I won't go into at the moment because I don't feel like going there, but I usually just don't let it bother me and I enjoy the special effects and occasional great episode.
We can, if you like, list our favourite episodes. For me
The two parter of Voyager with the ship that removes the target from time.
The Enterprise mirror episodes.
Any Klingon epsiode.
I like Enterprise despite the fact it didn't do, until too late, what it should have been from the start (season 3 was a major mistake). The whole run should have been season 4 stuff, but I don't let it bother me. I don't run the TV companies so why get depressed by what I don't control.
oh, and the Dominion war.