The thing about old Trek is that you could argue every series had strong points both from a critical storytelling perspective but also from an ideological basis that easily made up for the low points.
There are far more low points then the ones you listed too. In Voyager Chakotay is basically a made up character based on hollywood stereotypes perpetrated by a literal fraud. Look up Jamake Highwater.
Even in the 90s stupid MSM liberal media were trying to desperately force "diversity" by praising whatever half assed effort made by literal frauds and hacks. Hollywood media praised a character native americans found to be extremely offensive.
But all that said I'd take any season of Voyager over whatever garbage Kurtzman and his hack team makes up. It wasn't a great show, but there are some excellent Voyager episodes that easily rank among the best of Trek.
You'll never be able to say this about STD or Picard or whatever shitty spinoff they make next.
VOY is my favorite series despite Chakotay, Neelix, and other stumbling blocks and it never really reached its full potential due to meddling from Berman and other studio execs. DS9 only got away with innovating because Berman was too busy micromanaging VOY.
As for new shows, they're not episodic so it's a fundamentally different way to approach to storytelling. It's just the landscape of prestige TV. You can't just pick a self-contained story to compare. Prodigy and Lower Decks are great episodic TV and Strange New Worlds offers a return to that format as well.
The thing about old Trek is that you could argue every series had strong points both from a critical storytelling perspective but also from an ideological basis that easily made up for the low points.
There are far more low points then the ones you listed too. In Voyager Chakotay is basically a made up character based on hollywood stereotypes perpetrated by a literal fraud. Look up Jamake Highwater.
Even in the 90s stupid MSM liberal media were trying to desperately force "diversity" by praising whatever half assed effort made by literal frauds and hacks. Hollywood media praised a character native americans found to be extremely offensive.
But all that said I'd take any season of Voyager over whatever garbage Kurtzman and his hack team makes up. It wasn't a great show, but there are some excellent Voyager episodes that easily rank among the best of Trek.
You'll never be able to say this about STD or Picard or whatever shitty spinoff they make next.
VOY is my favorite series despite Chakotay, Neelix, and other stumbling blocks and it never really reached its full potential due to meddling from Berman and other studio execs. DS9 only got away with innovating because Berman was too busy micromanaging VOY.
As for new shows, they're not episodic so it's a fundamentally different way to approach to storytelling. It's just the landscape of prestige TV. You can't just pick a self-contained story to compare. Prodigy and Lower Decks are great episodic TV and Strange New Worlds offers a return to that format as well.