>>8044168
>can't put the toothpaste back in the tube when it comes to progressive and lgbtq+ values

oh for sure there's at least a couple of ways to make that happen, don't worry about that, it absolutely can be done, and quite effectively too


>>8044217
if you'd bothered to read ANY of what was previously written above you'd have seen that TNG is considered in a similar vein as TOS, in that it wasn't all preachy and woke like modern ST has become, because TNG focused on social commentary on a per episode basis rather than dedicating the whole series to shoving certain ultra 'progressive' topics down its audiences throats.

that's the fucking difference in all this, that's why old trek up to ST:Enterprise is widely considered acceptable viewing to most ST fans, because none of those 5 early series (TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT) continually beat the audience over the head with the big stick of wokeness, but yet still occasionally tackled controversial social topics in a thoughtful, intelligent, and sensitive manner; while most of what followed Enterprise is widely considered to be utter woke garbage because the writing clearly shifted to be little more than thinly veiled woke ultra activism vaguely disguised as 'entertainment', and that's what a sizeable chunk of the trek fanbase finds very distasteful.

so if the writers and producers had kept to the same formula used in those early shows, nobody now would really give a shit about controversial social topics occasionally being discussed in these modern trek shows; but the writers and production staff just couldn't do that, they couldn't help themselves and they just had to push their woke activism to the fore making it the primary object of each new show, and now they're all making surprised pikachu faces because a big chunk of the fanbase up and turned round and told them all to shove their woke activism up their asses.