Yep, then people say, "Star Trek use to be really good until they screwed around with it"
People are still talking about how Lucus F'd up adding Jar Jar Binks.
Part of the problem is as a franchise ages the fans are willing to forgive more sins. Truth be told Trek was NEVER really good. Half the episodes of TOS, including most of season 3, stink. They’re hackneyed, cliche (even at the time) with actually very bad acting from most of the cast. But we love it, so we forgive it it’s occasional “brain, brain and brain, what is brain” because there’s Space Seed and Tribbles.
And of course the tradition continues after that, the first 3 season of TNG are atrocious, first half of season 4 is pretty good, but then for the second half they did a bunch of single character episodes and we quickly found out that Picard and Data were the only characters that could actually carry a story. 5, 6 and 7 are mostly pretty good, but of course it was during TNG we learned that all holodeck episodes are horrid.
DS9 comparatively started off pretty strong, and got better every season, probably the closest Trek ever got to an actually good show from beginning to end. they even pulled off a couple of god holodeck eps. Then there’s Voyager. Worst show ever. Then Enterprise which, in spite of the whining of continuity worshipers, was actually pretty good, until the temporal cold war started, then it went to crap.
And in this world, where probably 70% of the content was crap, crap many of us love but still crap. People boldly declare that JJ ruined Trek. Is it different? Sure. Not as smart as Trek’s higher ideals? Yes. But is it as dumb as Gamesters of Triskelion? No. And it’s a damn sight better than Voyager. And like a lot of the best Trek it’s a fun ride.
You bring in Star Wars. We can see the same thing. Everybody now claims Jar Jar destroyed the series, to which I say one word: Ewoks. Really if you look at the original trilogy the first movie is OK, kind of fun, kind of dorky, but when the legend of Lucas’ grand plan comes up always remeber Luke hitting on Leia. Then we get Empire, great movie all the way up until “I am your father Luke” which in and of itself wasn’t bad but it put the series on a bad path. Then comes Return, which just stinks. That’s where we get the repercussions of Darth Daddy, made worse with sister Leia; Han gets reduced to comic sidekick... and Ewoks. And yet somehow people boldly declare Jar Jar killed it.
The lesson being, objects in the rear view mirror ain’t nearly as good as they appear.
When I first heard Jar Jar Binks speak, I thought that Amos ‘n’ Andy deserved an apology.