DS9 is my favourite because it dares to delve into the darker side of human nature with a couple of fantastic episodes dedicated to it "In the Pale Moonlight" and "The Siege of AR558" are two that stand out to me, and indeed there are those who feel that it stood at complete opposites to what Roddenbery set out in his utopian future for humanity. I can understand their viewpoint, but there's only so far you can go with it, I mean even Star Trek VI probed the consequences of inbuilt hatred against a species with Kirk having to face his hatred of the race that killed his son in order to secure peace between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.
In regards to setting the new series after the timeline split (aka just after Spock and Nero went to the Abramsverse) that could work, there's a whole wedge of novels and such which are set after the events of Nemesis and a vague timeline for the rest of the 24th century that can be sketched in.
Alternatively they could always put it in-between the original series and The Next Generation, I mean there's 71 years there which can be explored. First contact with the Cardassians, war with the Cardassians, the Tomed Incident, the battle of Narenda III and so on. Of course, like Enterprise you do have the problem of making sure that the ends meet up, which can put a bit of a limit on story-telling, so perhaps setting it after 2379 or 2387 would be better (I would prefer 2379 since it's before Romulus gets obiliterated and would open up interesting storylines regarding the power vacuum that Shinzons coup and subsequent death created within the Empire).
/nerd
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