I wonder how much this has to do with the philosophy and outlook at the time as opposed to just the mundane trend more and more action and fast-paced story tell

I wonder how much this has to do with the philosophy and outlook at the time as opposed to just the mundane trend more and more action and fast-paced story telling and the need for stories that span many episodes. Some episodes of season 2 of Discovery were able to weave in the visit planets and explore stuff from older Trek, but it's hard to explore and discuss philosophical problems if you need to have a lot of action and conflict to keep an audience. TNG still had a strong following, but would a show that slow make the CFO happy today? It would get more fighting with the Borg, more war like in DS9, but without all the episodes about other stuff. In fact if you'd take the episodes related to the Dominion and make them faster and cut a lot of the interpersonal stuff, it would be much closer to Discovery than TNG.