Exactly-Star Trek is great when it is compelling stories with compelling characters, not strict adherence to "Gene's Vision" or "fans love." Fan love is, at best, finicky, and at worst, extremely jaded and hostile. Writers can't take "what fans like" in to account because that is capricious and constantly changing.
So, why are you still a fan, and why are you here at this board, then? They can't keep making merch based on TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, ENT forever; sometime soon in the future, they'll have to make merch based on the recent movies and TV show(s), because the people who buy merch based on past programs will be aging and dead. And as for DVD/Blu-Ray/4K, there are still people who just like to collect physical media. Where do you get this nonsense from? And why is liking or not liking Star Trek linked to how good humanity is? I plan to get the show on Blu-Ray myself when it comes out.
Both opinions make sense, but I have to agree with the first view a little more. Sometimes it seems like the producers and writers are disconnected with what the viewers would want to see and as result we ended up with "These are the Voyages" or movies like Nemesis and Insurrection. I think it's logical from time to time to give the franchise feedback or otherwise they're going to have their own ideas of what the fans want, and there could very well be a These are the Voyages .2.0
Just wondering whether this thread will be renamed "When Discovery is a bust..." if going by the first episode is any indication
There are aspects that have me interested, but Star Trek it isn't. I think "when" is a fitting change with what they have given us so far.