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Trek was always a leftie Hugbox, and would have been even moreso if the studio hadn't pushed hard against how radical Roddenberry wanted to be. Problem is that if you watch the original series now, without a historical guide at the same time, nothing registers as particularly woke, because a lot of shit that was radical in the 60s, is not remotely radical today.
Prime Example: The miniskirts: in the 60s, having women in Miniskirts was a bold, feminist move. Womens skirts had to be long and conservative. Miniskirts were connected to womens sexual liberation, and a spit in the face of conservatives.it was a statement piece on women having autonomy over their appearance, instead of dressing how their fathers demanded it.
Today, not only does it not read as radical, it seems kinda sexist to have all the women wear short skirts.
Roddenberry also wanted the bridge crew to be 50/50 male and female, but the studio balked at that. And on that note, having a black female officer, was also pretty damn radical.
They also establish that racism is a thing of the past, the show was opposed to militarism in general, and spoke ill of war and combat, which was pretty radical during the cold war, their society had abandoned money alltogether, fuck, Gene roddenberry even wanted gayness on the show but that was an ABSOLUTE no-go for the studio. Fun fact: TNG had riker want to bang an androgynous alien who wants to express a specific gender which is illegal, and the whole episode is an allegory for conversion therapy. Apparently Roddenberry wanted to do something like that during the original show, but was again blocked by NBC.
Star Trek being a soap box for leftie authors is not a new thing, it was like that from the very beginning.
