Or hardcore punk lmao.

I had the same reaction when posting to be honest

No no the Cardassians have the Obsidian Order fleet but Starfleet is only secretly run by lizard people at the top.

And that is exactly why it was so effective.

Like the old saying goes, "show, don't tell". TOS didn't need to shake us by the shoulders and say "look! There's a black woman in a respected professional position! Isn't that amazing‽" They just showed us Uhura doing her job, being treated the same as anyone else because it's the future and why would it be any other way?

Honestly, I'm really happy for you that you saw it as just another moment. That's the world I want to live in, it's the world I want to raise my child in.

And Spock was supposed to be red (like a devil) until they realized it looked like blackface on black and white TVs.

i had no idea strip clubs were that recent

same, but with different misunderstanding 🏴‍☠️ yarr, matey

It was the era of the mini skirt after all

Idiots complaining about how star trek is "political now" are speaking nonsense but they're still speaking. It's important to counter this because idiots, gullible folks, and people not paying attention, will be sucked in by the nonsense if it's unopposed

I think when people talk about fiction being too "political" nowadays, they usually mean one of three things:

1. "I hate minorities."
2. "I am only now savvy enough to notice the political undertones that have been a defining characteristic of the genre for a century or more."
3. "The writing sucks."

Personally, I can get behind #3 because boy howdy there's some bad writing out there.

And I'll admit I occasionally fall prey to #2. Some things I watch today feel too "on the nose" in regard to current events, and sometimes it's hard to tell if it's truly worse writing than my old favorites or if I was just too ignorant, naïve, or credulous to pick up on it when I was younger. It's also sometimes hard to tell when re-watching old stuff because I don't feel the zeitgeist of 30 years ago in my bones the same way I do today's (naturally).

For example, I can watch an episode of Futurama that's literally about the world being nearly destroyed by a giant ball of 20th-century garbage, and somehow it doesn't feel overtly topical, while the new episodes about bitcoin and AI feel more like a sermon than a sitcom. Maybe the writing is worse, or maybe I'm just old now. Who's to say?

Statistically red shirts are less likely to die, there were more of them.

On TOS roughly 10% of red shirts died. Almost 20% of gold shirts died. Blue shirts were the least likely to die. Something like 5%.