The point being that "new" in and of itself is not sufficient to get folks to care, as Voyager found out.
Hmm, a lot of the time, Voyager didn't feel particularly new to me. New species of the week, Klingon knock-offs, cosmic space wedgies, holodeck malfuctions, and a lot of other plots that felt like recycled TNG scripts. The ones that stood out for me (much like DS9) were the ones when Voyager actually did plots that actually used the unique premise of the show, like "Equinox" or "Scorpion".