darth_ender said:

Hey now! I liked Generations and First Contact, and while there was some action, there was more to them than that. ST II, III, V, and VI were pretty action oriented as well, I thought.

The original 60's series was an action show. Kirk had some type of hand to hand in most of the episodes, but TNG was much much more cerebral in it's focus. Picard hardly ever had a hand to hand combat in the TNG episodes, and the rest of the crew mostly did the point and shoot thing.