New Trek show...

[KevinM1]

I would honestly love to see Picard as Commandant of Starfleet Academy.  Molding the hearts and minds of the future while having ample opportunity to give his patented speeches.

Yeah, but a Star Trek series set in San Francisco might get old pretty quick.

Rumor has it it's only going to be a miniseries anyway. At least, one of the new planned Prime-timeline (not to be confused with the Kelvin-timeline that's in the current Paramount movies) shows is going to be a miniseries.

There was also a rumor of some sort of animated series, which could be great if they got the people from Avatar/Korra/Voltron to do it. Those shows have always had strong characters, pretty decent plots, and solid animation.

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I think there were two main problems with Chakotay:

1. He was boring as fuck most of the time.
2. He was a Native American pastiche, an amalgamation of tropes rather than a well-researched and developed character.

Voyager itself was incredibly underwhelming.  A lot of it was the writing.  The show abandoned its premise early on to become TNG lite, to the point where Reginald Barclay and Deanna Troi were semi-regular guest stars.  Conflicts were largely uninspired.  Got a problem?  Throw some Borg nanoprobes at it and call it a day.  There was also some strife among the cast.  

Garret Wang was somewhat disliked, and was going to be released until he was voted one of Hollywood's most beautiful actors.  Jennifer Lien was released instead (although, given her recent public issues with mental illness, perhaps there was more to her release than that). Robert Beltran had a reputation of being difficult.  Kate Mulgrew hated Jeri Ryan.

Still better than Enterprise, but that's damning with faint praise.

The biggest problem with Chocolate Day's "indianness" is that they hired the fraud Jamake Hightower as consultant when creating the character.

Yup. And, from what I've heard/read, Beltran had to convince the writers that it made more sense for Chakotay to have a Mesoamerican background rather than the Plains Indian background he initially had for the first few seasons. Which, I mean, duh. Even with the change in label, they didn't do anything to reflect the change in culture... he was still talking about sky spirits and shit.