I don’t know if it was only a part. The world has moved on from the day, so a lot of what would have been in-your-face bleeding-edge progressivism back then no longer is.
The women could wear miniskirts. No-one was smoking. Uhura (African American) was not a maid or cook, but a well-respected competent peer, along with Chekhov (Soviet Russian), Sulu (Japanese), and McCoy (Caucasian American).
We may not think much of it now, and in the miniskirt case, think poorly of it, but back in the day, they were bleeding-edge social stances.
The stances weren’t the main story of every episode. They were just part of the world that were occasionally the focus. That ain’t what new trek is. The stances are the main stories and the rest of the world is occasionally the focus.
It’s the entire point of every episode. Kurtzman literally said that was the point. There’s sometimes a bit of tech fiction and a bit of politics, a bit of action, but those parts are superficial, extremely poor quality, have very little screen time and are always subservient to the social and personal issues plots that the episodes were written to be about. Only you know why you fail to acknowledge this. Again, the showrunners explicitly stated this is the goal. You’re saying they failed to do what they intended?
Being woke was a part of old trek, being woke is all of new trek.
I don’t know if it was only a part. The world has moved on from the day, so a lot of what would have been in-your-face bleeding-edge progressivism back then no longer is.
The women could wear miniskirts. No-one was smoking. Uhura (African American) was not a maid or cook, but a well-respected competent peer, along with Chekhov (Soviet Russian), Sulu (Japanese), and McCoy (Caucasian American).
We may not think much of it now, and in the miniskirt case, think poorly of it, but back in the day, they were bleeding-edge social stances.
The stances weren’t the main story of every episode. They were just part of the world that were occasionally the focus. That ain’t what new trek is. The stances are the main stories and the rest of the world is occasionally the focus.
Maybe it’s just all you look for in new trek?
It’s the entire point of every episode. Kurtzman literally said that was the point. There’s sometimes a bit of tech fiction and a bit of politics, a bit of action, but those parts are superficial, extremely poor quality, have very little screen time and are always subservient to the social and personal issues plots that the episodes were written to be about. Only you know why you fail to acknowledge this. Again, the showrunners explicitly stated this is the goal. You’re saying they failed to do what they intended?
Old Trek was woke on the left side. New Trek is woke on the right side, obviously inferior to even the most simple minded.