Agreed. People should dislike modern Star Trek for it’s bad writing, not because it’s progressive.

Trek writing has never been consistently good. Half of TOS is unwatchably bad. TNG sucks until Riker gets more hair. DS9 sucks until Sisko gets less hair. Voyager’s all over the place (even though it’s my favorite). Enterprise is mostly bad. Only the even numbered TOS movies are good. Only the first two TNG movies are good.

I say this with a genuine love of Star Trek, but the quality of the writing has varied greatly over each individual series.

As a Star Wars nerd, I feel this so intensely. It sucks when you love the setting, but the actual writing is a crapshoot.