Oh yes! More than a few episodes from all eras are quite fun to watch. But the universe, as a whole, disappoints. I don't know if Paramount would have let th

Oh yes! More than a few episodes from all eras are quite fun to watch. But the universe, as a whole, disappoints. I don't know if Paramount would have let them, but if the writer's for TNG (and DS9, and so on) had been free to ignore the canon from the preceding shows the entire thing would be much better. "Same idea", they could have said "But we're not going to be constrained by what came before. Accept it on it's own terms."