However, I've become quite jaded about the Trek spinoffs since I started watching the new Battlestar Galactica. I realize now what the spinoffs could have been had they been in someone else's hands. The formula of: Earth's a utopia because everyone lets the Federation run their lives and gave up their material posessions to the collective good, combined with the "reset button" ending where none of the characters grew or changed (was it REALLY necessary to bring in Ezri Dax), the ENDLESS techno-babble, the BS plot device of the holo-decks (how many times can the safety protocols fail before there's a recall???), the equivocation....really screwed the show, IMO. I usually won't watch the shows unless I'm really desperate.
Hopefully when it comes back in 10 years or so they'll give it to Manny Coto, who did the last season of Enterprise, or J. Michael Straczynski, who did Babylon 5.
Oh yeah, and no matter how much I'm down on the franchise right now, IMO Garak was the best character except maybe Worf and Data in any of the spinoffs.