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Out of curiosity, who do you see as the LGBTQ+ characters? I can think of a few, but outside of mirror universe eps no one is actually established as queer. It's all subtext, or implied.
Then there's the big lesbian kiss with Jadzia, and that's awesome, but immediately after they decide that they shouldn't be doing this and they go their separate ways, and Jadzia never to my knowledge expresses her attraction to a woman again. Even in that case, it's unique because said woman used to be a man. It's not Jadzia just being attracted to a woman on her own merits.
What's big about new Trek is that the characters are actually queer in the text, not just subtext. I'm a big fan of reading Garak and Bashir as queer, but they're fundamentally not good representation because as far as the story itself is concerned, they're two straight men. It's only through the actors' performances that the queer implications shine through.