Resnic
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Star Trek has always been woke, nothing new.
No it wasn't.
Woke is forcing social and political agendas into things just for the sake of doing it. Not because it's what the creator wants because it's part of his intended creation.
Star trek TOS wasn't woke despite having black and Asian characters and diversity. Gene Roddenberry the guy that created it made his futuristic universe as the federation being beyond differences for the benefit of all mankind. But different races still hated other races and so on as well. Even non federation humans still hated other races. Like when they were going to pass on Patrick Stewart as Piccard originally because he was bald Roddenberry said the federation wouldn't care about if he was bald or not and to keep him in the part.
It wasn't because gene was "woke" it was because he had a specific idea for his creation and used it despite it being opposed. Woke would be if gene didn't want a diverse federation and the studio forced him to or he did it himself to appease the audience, that's woke.
And in response to the post, all the recent star trek suck because they aren't about what made star trek good to begin. Interesting characters, exploration, the human element, a variety of new adventures, and so on.
Now star trek is either about action, or pushing political and social agendas and political stuff shoved in to satisfy esg scores. They have nothing that made the older star treks good.