Ragitsu
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I don't know how right-wingers can claim to love Star Trek: The Next Generation while proclaiming that modern Star Trek is "marxist propaganda". Holy crap...are you kidding me? They must have skipped quite a few large chunks of that show.
Let's put aside all of the post-scarcity elements of the UFP that are as far from capitalism as you can get. I recall a story where Riker fell in love with a sexless (genderless?) being. You can bet if that particular episode aired today, there would be cries of "transgender pandering" and "SJW".
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Fun fact Jonathan Frakes was all for doing that episode with a male actor, but the studio refused. Another episode that comes to mind is The Neutral Zone where a modern era businessman is effectively seen as an antiquated joke. Although, in one of the books they find a use for him, negotiating with Ferengi.
Even the original series pushed social limits. Spock's look was intended to be demonic, to force people to question notions of judgement by appearance. In the pilot you had Number One, played by Majel Barrett. Again, nixed by the studio. However, Roddenberry was able to have an ethnically diverse cast. One of the things lost on modern audiences was the significance of Chekov and having moved past the cold war, seemingly peacefully.
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