Small-universe syndrome applies to something like the captain Picard hires to find a woman from Coppelius just happening to have all his unresolved trauma stem from meeting a woman from Coppelius. In contrast to this show chewing its cud, it's been a long time since "The Motion Picture." I think it would be poor use of the setting to introduce galaxy-hopping transcendent machine beings without connection or acknowledgement of those who enhanced Voyager 6.