I’m not saying some good things didn’t emerge from the effort, it’s just that it was almost an afterthought. Executives realized early the fans abandoned DSN. I sure did and after a number of letters. They struggled to redirect the effort towards a more Trek-like platform. I liked Kira Nerys and Benjamin Sisko as characters. My problem was the writing and the lack of the philosophy behind Trek.
I don’t mind someone trampling religion, but I do mind taking five years to discover the intelligence in the black hole allowing the Bajorians to die needlessly over the shape of a hat or a symbol or when to pray. I don’t watch Trek to waste my time on things like this and I am very particular about how I spend my time. I would much rather have a Who Watches the Watchers from TNG than what I saw play out there. How should the Bajorians react to the slaughter over the years? Could you blame them to target these intelligences for revenge? I surely wouldn’t!
Certainly, I did not appreciate broadening the franchise to lure new viewers. And this was another trigger for me. Trek isn’t something you just watch. It’s not Star Wars. Roddenberry broke new ground with this thing. Imagine, he took a story called Voyage of the SPace Beagle as a framework and used it to teach. I learned more about tolerance from him and Stan Lee’s X-Men than I ever did from my family or the catholic school they sent me to attend. Abram’s decided to make it action adventure, dismissing the philosophy but keeping the characters (that’s the whole meaning behind that scene where a young Jim Kirk steals the Corvette for a joy ride: We’ll keep the characters but jettison the vehicle). And, while there may be action adventure in Trek, it’s not about action adventure. It has never been about action adventure.
Trek is like fine art, it is something you move towards. You must make the journey the artist asks of you. It never spoon feeds. Star Wars spoon feeds, other sci-fi may spoon feed, but never Trek. DSN utterly failed here and it did that by abandoning the Trek philosophy (try googling blindfolded bust of gene roddenberry, you’ll see what I mean).
I also don’t think Colm Meaney is a leading man or actor enough to carry this thing. I disagreed with his choice of this guy in TNG. It always mystified me.
I know there many people who liked DSN. I have a lovely friend of mine who lives in Central America, and whom I miss, who liked DSN, also. We disagree a lot about it, too. She’s mostly right about things, just not about DSN 
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