@squirrel reading some of my friends' impression of the series on first-watch and they tend to agree on this claim

I think Janeway makes a few missteps and a couple episodes are really dumb but it's overall Trekkier than DS9 is. Not that DS9 is a bad series, but that I have issue with how its themes fit into (or rather, clash with) the nature of the federation as described in the other concurrent series