I still think that, despite the show's quality, Deep Space 9 did more to damage the franchise than anything Nu-Trek ever has. It introduced so much shit that allowed this more actiony, dramatic Trek incarnation to occur. The show itself was good, but holy fuck I wish they had never introduced things like the Dominion War, Section 31, Star Fleet Intelligence, the Marquis... just... ugh.
Edit: I just wish Star Trek had stayed in its niche of optimistic space exploration instead of the militarized... garbage its become.
Going to have to disagree with you. The Maquis was entirely B&B's idea, but it was a pretty good one, which naturally B&B never really did anything with. As for everything else, one of the things I liked about all that was that DS9 challenged ideals. Like TNG the entire point was to get the audience to think about things and consider other points of view. DS9 and the people who made it are in no way at fault for nuTrek, which should be pretty apparent as it's obvious that the people making nuTrek have never watched it.
Even besides that, something fans seem to keep forgetting is that in spite of what they might have thought of the shows, DS9 was the black sheep of the bunch as far as B&B were concerned, because it wasn't something they were directly making, and it did a lot of things they wouldn't have done, whereas VOY was exactly the kind of thing they wanted to make. VOY is also exactly the kind of thing the suits in Paramount wanted to make, and their interference actually stopped B&B from doing some things that actually would have been good. The Temporal Cold War over on ENT was also their fault. And then they acted confused when the audience they just took for granted wasn't there anymore.
ETA: The reason nuTrek is trying to be all dark and edgy is because the people making it think that's what's popular, and Abrams Trek really helped to steer them in that direction. Notice one of the people who wrote for those movies is now running things. For these idiots, Star Trek is just an IP they can use to try to make the generic, action-packed, special-effects-driven sci-fi that's making other studios gads of money. This is why they've ripped off everything popular they can think of, including making the first season of STP a rip-off of Mass Effect.
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