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Where do you consider TNG being preachy about disability? Not arguing, it's just been a while since I've watched it beginning to end and this might be something I failed to pick up on.
Geordi's blindness is a plot point at least once in an episode that's basically exactly what people act like episodes involving queerness are. Where he has to hold a eugenicist's hand through accepting that he doesn't mind that he was born blind and that he even has some advantages thanks to his visor. Don't get me wrong, it was a very good episode, and people did need it laid out like that, but it's very much not the "we've moved beyond such concerns" in a way that say having a ranking officer use a wheelchair would be.
I will say something they did right was that his visor gives him headaches. It's very in line with what folks with cochlear implants or very strong eyeglass prescriptions describe.