Please tell me you are trolling.

How rude.

One thing Star Trek has reinforced in my mind is respect for others' perspectives. I loved Enterprise.

Really? Lol. The federation is based on the fact that your society has to have certain values and liberties to even JOIN the federation. Sounds like the opposite, where the goal is to create the best monoculture.

Not always huge fan of the Federation really, and TNG and many of the other shows sometime show its faults from time to time, which I've always enjoyed, but I don't view it as a monoculture at all (Starfleet might approach one though).

There's some common ground between the various societies, of course, but Klingons, Humans, Romulans, Andorians and others are vastly different in their practices and beliefs. The Federation holds them together through co-operation, not by dismantling their various perspectives. Since the shows mostly focus on a crew, yes, you're going to see a lack of uniqueness, as you would in any army/navy/air force crew, as its efficient and required for keeping the ship alive. But in the down time you see Picard studying his books, Worf burning and killing shit, a Vulcan meditating, or Odo sitting in a bucket.

Picard has repeatedly chastised other civilizations who believe in Gods, calling it superstitious nonsense. There's respect to the point where it starts to cause harm, and liking Enterprise definitely causes harm :-p

Picard sometimes did get frustrated over those things when it came down to certain dangerous situations - but he also spent much time deliberating on whether or not the ship should get involved at all, as well as spending most episodes preserving old, strange, and new cultures and religions. In fact, you could say his love for archaeology and new frontiers is completely founded on a deep interest for something different than the usual perspective, whether he believed in it or not.

He was also a great friend to Worf and respected his spiritual beliefs and traditions. You don't have to agree with someone to respect them.

Asking someone if they're trolling or if they're serious when they announce their opinion can imply that you think their view isn't worthy of being serious. It can come off condescending and disrespectful if you don't have any context clues to the tone in which it is said.

Though DS9 thinks you'd use an iPad per document.

Well TNG invented the iPad... and Siri... So why not the Xbox One? :p

Really?

I think in some ways the Star Trek universe itself is somewhat broken and at odds with telling good stories since it starts with most basic problems from money to disease already solved.

There are tons of stories about money and disease. If I had a nickel for every time I heard the show say 'gold pressed latinum' I'd make any Ferengi jealous!

Also, these are the least interesting problems facing humanity anyway.

What's wrong with The Wrath of Khan??

Khan was a great villain in the original series, so they decided to bring him back. He would be an Ahab-figure, so bent upon the destruction of Kirk that he could no longer assess his situation rationally. Meanwhile, the crew of the Enterprise are late into their careers, and Kirk is especially feeling obsolete.

Great, great idea. I love some of the themes and ideas behind this movie, I just think the execution was lousy. Sit for a moment, and think of the coincidences that they set up in order for the above to take place.

-Ceti Alpha VI has to explode. No big deal, happens all the time in science fiction.
-Ceti Alpha VI explodes hard enough to shift the orbit of Ceti Alpha V.
-Without stripping V's atmosphere off.
-Federation sensors, keen enough to spot microbes from orbit, cannot detect the missing sixth planet. Or the cloud of hot debris it should have left behind.
-Or the difference between a patch of microbial life and an enclave of superhumans.
-Or the presence of a mind-controlling grub, the only other species to survive the blast.
-Meanwhile, at the exact same time, Kirk lets himself be talked into captaining the Enterprise one last time.
-When arriving at the location of a research station that appears to be in distress, Kirk lets his guard down to a ship that is acting shady as Hell, which lets Khan get the jump on him. Uhura is the only one (besides the audience) that sees this coming.

The above, and several other elements, struck me as an incredibly contrived way to get Kirk and Khan fighting each other.

And as far as science fiction goes, I'm not sure how I feel about the Genesis Device. Sure, Star Trek is on the gooey-soft end of the sci-fi hardness scale, but the explicit division of 'living' and 'dead' life is a canard that I've gotten tired of. And it also strains credulity that only three people in existence can see potential for weaponizing it. And when Scotty learns about Genesis, he is apparently so overcome with existential despair that he can't even begin to coherently explain why a terraforming superweapon is going to upset the balance of power.

And I want to talk about how stupid the 3D Space Maneuver was, but that'll have to wait for another day.

You'll need a better example than Firefly. One would think all the horrible things done to that show (episodes out of order, horrible marketing, etc) had much more to do with its demise than anything Start Trek related.

Firefly was screwed over because executives didn't think it would have an audience. I'm trying to imagine a world where Star Trek didn't peter out with Voyager and Enterprise, and maybe created the audience to support more science fiction shows.

And yes, I do need better examples, but I'm too strung out to think of them.

Eh? I enjoyed both of the new Trek films. They were very different, and had a problem here or there, but they weren't mind numbingly stupid or anything... well except for magic death curing blood...

OK. How about this. I realize that Star Trek has been absolutely terrible about sensibly applying the in-universe technology*, but how stupid do the characters have to be to not realize that they can just beam warheads after Khan with the same teleporter technology he used to escape to Qo'noS?

* Number of times that a replicator has been used to make replacement organs or ship parts: 0.
Number of times that a replicator has been used to make "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot.": Too many.

I have my own problems with Star Trek. I think it should have aspired to bigger grander story telling. I think it for far too long limited itself in what it could do to its characters, to how much they could change or grow. I think in some ways the Star Trek universe itself is somewhat broken and at odds with telling good stories since it starts with most basic problems from money to disease already solved.

Personally, I think that the biggest problem with Star Trek is that many of the series followed a "Wagon Train to the stars" approach. Sure, this gives you endless potential for stories about the USS Enterprise running into negative space wedgies or making nice with the local primitives. However, this shifts focus to civilizations which will only appear in that one episode, and there's insufficient time to explore an alien culture.

Star Trek would be better served with a series that spends time fleshing out what Federation life is like, and how it's different from modern life. So, maybe a series about the Federation intervening on a dying planet, and helping a more primitive civilization set up a colony on a new world.

Also: Star Trek writers would have to treat technology as more than a convenient plot device.

• people who say that it's the most intelligentest of the ST films yet it contains massive amounts of stupidity and was based on a false premise (see next point) and it's execution did the opposite of what it was intended to achieve (and fanboys never noticed) (see 2 points down)
  
• people who say that prior to this film Kirk had always ignored the consequences of failure and had been teflon (ignoring what had been established during TOS)
  
• That the answer to the question, "Am I too old for this job?" was, from what we saw in the film, a definite YES. And yet he managed to keep his job and didn't get relieved of command.
  
• Kirk not raising shields for no well defined reason
  
• Spock tells Kirk how to defeat Khan - and the ploy was laughable - a superior intellect has problems with spacial reasoning?
  
• Scotty abandons his post during an attack to try to lay a guilt trip on his commanding officer
  
• after many years my memory is hazy but... Checkov said that Kahn put things in their ears to control their minds and nobody asked: are they still there? how did you resist? and Bones didn't immediately scan him with his medical tricorder.

So, in summary, my problems with it are the same as most of my problems with ST.

• The sheer lack of thought that went into it.
  
• The incompetent execution that completely undermine the points that the writers are trying to convey
  
• The fact that fans never notice these problems or make excuses for them (I blame the fans for the continued naffness of ST) (the makers make shit and the fans lap it up)

other things that annoy me about ST

• it's anti-science - I like my science fiction to at least understand science - but it almost never does so I'm pretty used to that - still doesn't make me happy about it - most tv/film SF is inherently Luddite
  
• Federation types who profess a respect for different cultures and yet turn up their noses at other people's food because it is too spicy
  
• warp core breaches, ODN junctions, plasma leaks, shields down to 30%, the most boring and implausible battles imaginable - people getting injured because their consoles explode after the ship has been hit (WTF?!?)

Those aren't exhaustive lists (though I am exhausted typing them) :-)

I'm glad ST has finished and I don't want to see it coming back.

I'm ignoring the new films - they are fairly naff but are, mildly, entertaining and don't have pretensions of intellectual worth.

So unless some writer comes up with something more interesting post beginning then all versions of BSG will have the same problems.

Needed more aliens.