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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 678709" data-attributes="member: 5">Just about any time in TOS when they had a confrontation with another species, there were rather blatant anti-war messages and overtures.  Race relations was in the forefront of the message of the entire series.  Even when episodes were quirky they slipped in cultural non-interference dogma with the prime directive.  Preaching diversity was the over-riding theme of the, basically humorous, "Harry Mudd and his Robots" episode.TNG took a more active role in moving from a non-interference message to one of cultural exchange, and as often as they could.DS9 moved it from "We need to seek out new life for good reasons and with fair intentions" to a "We're all in this together and have no choice but to try harder to get along" theme.Voy may have been more about us struggling against others while keeping to ourselves than any other series.  That may be the main reason (and please don't start harping on the acting, directing, scripts... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) that people felt put off by the show.  Thematically it may have been the show on the shakiest moral ground of any of the series.  Quite selfish, looking back on it...*shrug*</blockquote>