I think people forget that the original Star Trek series was very forward looking in pushing social boundaries as they were when it started. - multiracial and multinational crews etc.  Leonard Nimoy lobbying producers for better pay for Nichelle Nichols as Uhura was another example I recall. 
 

When I started law school in 1976, my parents bought me a tiny black and white tv and every night while I had dinner I watched reruns of the original series, which I had also watched when the show originally came out.   It’s been a while but I have vivid memories of many of the episodes.  I never got into any of the sequels.- but perhaps the time has come

Kokipy wrote:

When I started law school in 1976, my parents bought me a tiny black and white tv and every night while I had dinner I watched reruns of the original series, which I had also watched when the show originally came out.   It’s been a while but I have vivid memories of many of the episodes.  I never got into any of the sequels.- but perhaps the time has come

Well some of the sequels are better written and acted than TOS, notably TNG. Though you may not initially have the same affection for the characters you knew back when, I came to feel that TNG was the best even after having great love for TOS

Star makes a very valid point, and I think it's fair to say that the trend has continued to more recent productions in the Star Trek universe.  I'm thinking here of Michael Chabon's involvement with the Picard series, and what I've seen so far of Strange New Worlds.  I like both of these quite a lot.

Meanwhile, over in the Star Wars universe, I don't think recent offerings have been anywhere near as consistently good, and in fact have been extremely patchy by comparison with the modern ST shows.
But that's just my opinion.  I could be wrong.