ok, there's still the startrek cheap aliens, for the most part, though some of the xindi are cool I especaly like the Aquatics, too bad they don't show them that much, the insectoids are also fairly cool, but a bit on the cliced side.
hows this, the Enterprise has had sevral new ass holes torn into it, it has been a flying debris feild for the lastfour eppisodes (a new record for star trek I beleve) they have a crackhead vulcan slut for a first officer, and the cheif engeneer is starting to have halucinations about his sister (killed in a Xindi atack in the season premere along with 7 million other people) and one of his officers who was killed in a recent eppisode, unlike every other trek put out there are no expendable redshirts, every time someone dies, they make a big deal out of it, show a funeral with most of the crew present.