Totally with you on all of that. I've been known to yell at the screen that they've got it all wrong. Hell, the very reason I loved TOS Spock so much was for his alienness and logic, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I can see updating for a modern culture - e.g. Nurse Chapelle being strong and awesome - but not throwing canon right out.

I'm also very not keen on the Gorn arc, loathing horror as a genre (so often other SF is actually horror). I want strange new worlds, like it says on the tin.