Pretty reasonable points! I'm not as bothered by some of the darker tones the more recent Star Treks have taken, but I do very much understand where you're coming from when it comes to that sense of optimism feeling gone in the shows.
The darker tones don't really bother me either, but I feel like they try to hit those dark tones only to miss the mark.
Like in the 90s you could have a great story about one person or the ship itself, but now everything has to be galaxy-ending disasters which checks me right out.
We even saw with some of the most memorable episodes like Duet or The Visitor where there isn't even a threat, just a story about characters, and they're amazing.
Now we just seem to have season-long galaxy-exploding threats and plod-along fetch quests to make the galaxy not explode. But you know it's not going to explode because they completely jumped the shark with the stakes; of course the galaxy isn't going to explode because the show has to continue.
I guess you could argue that the USS Enterprise was never going to explode either, or that series regular was obviously not going to die, but people can suspend their disbelief enough to empathise with a few characters in an episode, but "the galaxy exploding" is hard to connect with.
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Like in the 90s you could have a great story about one person or the ship itself, but now everything has to be galaxy-ending disasters which checks me right out.