But mainly the wow factor.
All good points...
Still not entirely convinced by the in universe argument. Star Trek is essentially a western: we're on the (final) frontier, and that doesn't ring true if, half way through their 5-year mission, they can swing past a miraculous place like this and stick the Enterprise in an underground car park.
(but I'd forgotten the diverging timeline went all the way back to the Kelvin.)Real world justification that something like DS9 wouldn't cut it in a 2016 blockbuster... Hard to argue with that
