Been rewatching Deep Space Nine here and there.
SPOILERS
If you want to see just how bad some of the actors truly are on Deep Space Nine, you should definitely check this one out. Not only is it an absolutely horrible Sisko episode about civil rights (what else) but everyone goes without make-up and they do (laughable) New York accents.
Another one is S06E23 'Profit and lace'. It's where they turn Quark into a tranny in order to salvage what's left of the Grand Nagus' authority after he gave females the right to wear clothes. Yes, that's right. Trannies & feminism. :')
(Not to mention parroting all the talking points about getting females into the workforce and doubling the economy, but for some reason they omitted the part where the birth rates would plummet as a consequence. rofl)
S06E24 is also hilariously bad. It's where they decide to send an eighteen-year-old Molly back into the time where she was left stranded for ten years and grew up all alone on an abandoned planet 300 years ago. Apparently, she would be better off there, instead of a Federation clinic, specifically designed to rehabilitate cases like hers. :') :')
Edit:
Season 6 was also the season where they decided to turn Dukat into a cartoon villain and make him the 'nemesis' of Sisko. It resulted in that ridiculous episode where Sisko and Dukat were stranded on a planet and Dukat was talking to himself the whole time. It ended with Sisko ignoring Dukat's mental status and declaring him an 'evil man', after his pride got wounded (once again).
This theme was further explored in S06E17. Where Dukat called up Kira out of nowhere and revealed that he was banging her mother during the occupation, rofl. And then to make it even more preposterous, Kira used the Orb of Time to travel back in time to confirm that her mother was really banging Dukat.
Section 31 was the best thing (had it continued in that form) to come out of ds9, with the longer arcs being used as the second best thing.
Of course, 'modern' section 31 is basically "what if they were retarded leftists the whole time, who loved people who committed genocide because reasons".
Don't forget everything after Enterprise just completely doing away with how secretive S31 was meant to be. At least with Harris in Enterprise he flies very close to the sun when justifying his work without being as blatant as Discovery or Lower Decks were about the organisation.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Divergence_(episode)#Memorable_quotes
Meanwhile STD not only had visible crew with S31 badges but also the entire AI fleet and station. Lower Decks just did its usual thing of pissing all over the lore while trying to be funny about it like the Rick and Morty rip-off that it is aimed at normies and tourists who want to feel part of the Trekkie in group.
That's a shame. Because DS9 didn't even confirm it's existence, it was a grey area
My favorite part of DS9's depiction was how vague it was. For all we know, Section 31 is just a story playing itself out through people who believe it exists, whether they believe in its values or not.
I stopped watching after ENT, so I couldn't tell you what happened. I saw where it was going, and how shit it was.