The funniest thing I saw on the Internet last week was someone complaining that modern Trek had too much pseudoscience. Like TOS was the pinnacle of scientific accuracy.
The accumulated canon, with all their minutia, will foam up about their waists and all the gatekeepers will look up and shout "STOP MAKING STAR TREK POLITICAL!" ...and I'll look down and whisper, "Star Trek has always been political."
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Troi was consistently called "Councillor Troi" instead of her rank on TNG. Was Ezri Dax ever called "Councillor Dax"? I feel like she was either called "Ezri" or "Lieutenant". #startrek
In Star Trek, when there's an unknown sickness, it's cured by the ship's CMO with maybe the help of a crew member from another department. Sure, in-fiction there's a few more doctors on staff, and some nurses (unless you're on VOY/ENT and it's just the EMH/Phlox). Done in 1 ep.
Right now IRL, everyone on Earth who working on a COVID cure or vaccine is. Imagine that. It's kind of beautiful but also horrifying. Everyone is trying to find a solution and it's been months and it will still be longer.
I do think that in the world of late 90s television, you needed to cheer for both the Starfleet and (former) Maquis characters and back then there wasn't really a precedent for Starfleet being anything less than the good guy.
Listening to @TheDeltaFlyers and Robert Duncan McNeill makes the comment that he wishes there were less Starfleet/Maquis animosity in S01E02 of Voyager. I think that's an interesting contrast to many comments I see, where folks wish they had more animosity sustained for longer.