Perhaps I should have been more clear. Seasons 6-7 had their gems, to be sure, but the overall quality had started to wane. There got to be more substandard episodes than good ones. New showrunners should have been brought in for each new show; DS9 gets their own showrunner, Voyager gets their own showrunner, ENT gets Manny Coto from day one, that sort of thing.
Ideally, Voyager would have never happened. New cast would have been brought into TNG to fill voids left by leaving cast, many, if not most of the stories would have been pitched as TNG stories, with new writers telling them so they're fresh, and TNG and DS9 run for many years together, crossing over as needed.
Ideally, Voyager would have never happened. New cast would have been brought into TNG to fill voids left by leaving cast, many, if not most of the stories would have been pitched as TNG stories, with new writers telling them so they're fresh, and TNG and DS9 run for many years together, crossing over as needed.
