Dayton, Keith, if you can't at least try to help, get out of the kitchen. I mean it.
But I've had more than enough of the official "franchise" and character destruction.
“There’s nothing for us here anymore”
Former Maquis commander novak to Kes in my fanfiction story "Strange Dreams"
Fine, that's your decision and you're perfectly entitled to it. I don't think anyone here ever said you weren't.
Where you're coming from as a reader is exactly what happened to me as a writer. I said that same quote to several people when I withdrew my name from consideration for future Trek projects back in 2006. I contributed to the fiction where I could, and there was just nothing left for me to contribute to anymore. The line is going in a different direction from where you're going as a reader. Did the same thing to me as a writer. If you're a 24th Century fan like me, you weren't on the same path with Trek for ENT, and now your path is diverging from VOY. Yeah, it sucks, but that's the way life goes. We have our friends for a time, but then their lives move away from ours, and if we can't/won't keep up, then we move away from them.
I'm right there with you, but there's got to be a time when we realize that, you know, we're just getting pissed off over something we can't change, making ourselves look like fools by continually going into histrionics over it, and really, why not put the energy that anger is raising into something more constructive? Because it's only going to eat you up from the inside and make you an angry, bitter, perpetually mean person if you don't. What does the anger get you? A little bit of attention for the righteous indignation? What's that worth in the grand scheme of things?
Why not channel that anger into your writing, get some original novels out there, and then try to walk back into Trek as an experienced novelist and pitch the perfect "bring back Janeway" story? That's a far more constructive use of energy than what we've been doing in this thread, no?