Star Trek simply became too preachy over the decades. Pushing social justice became more important than entertaining folks. Star Trek: Enterprise, the most recent Trek TV series, squandered a great opportunity to return to the show’s roots. They should have went retro with the technology and scripts as the events of Enterprise were supposed to happen prior to the original series.
That said, at least they didn’t have Janeway—the worst captain in Trek history!
The famous story was that when he proposed Star Trek: TNG, Gene Roddenberry’s basic concept was to push non-violence.
His writers quickly realized that a non-violent action/adventure series was quite literally impossible to write. Hence the first season and a half consisted of shows that were absolute dogs.
Then Roddenberry died, and they were able to save the show by going back to shoot-em-out scripts based on old submarine and air combat movies.
If you think Janeway was the worst Captain in Trek history, then it’s obvious you never watched Deep Space Nine, with Captain Sisko...
Or FR threads in 12 under the God Romney...
She is in prison now, wearing the 'new black.'