No More Star Trek (?)

Orson Scott Card has an op-ed in the LA Times about the demise of Star Trek, which he thinks is not that bad a thing. Trek has matured, and the Trek universe has grown quite a bit since 1966-69. Card might be on to something as far as the sophisication of the audience, and certainly as to the sophistication of what's available on the small (and large) screens. He uses ABC's Lost as an example. I would point to HBO's Carnivale as another. However, Star Trek's woes have been in execution, not in the lack of a coherent mythos, especially since (I would argue) the introduction of the Borg in TNG. The Gul Dukat/Sisko story line that permeated all of DS-9's run was a really good example of threading, and the show also was able to tell some pretty good stories. Card may have been disappointed in Voyager and Enterprise, as I was as well, for many reasons. But even those shows had their moments, particularly when they merged with the universe that the original Star Trek created and that The Next Generation and DS-9 elaborated.