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@lain @Moon Star Trek's producers were proud of the fact that they broadcast the first "interracial" (meaning black/white) kiss on network television.

They did an episode about a planet of black-and-white and white-and-black two-tone people discriminating against each other.

They had Russian and Japanese characters on the bridge at a time the USA considered those nations to be enemies.

In a later series they had an episode about a character we might now call genderqueer or something, (more)

Matthew Skala

@lain @Moon complete with "pronouns," and the only nod to making it science fiction was that they inverted it: she was "she" on a planet where most people were agender and called "one."

I figure Trek was *always* extremely woke, since decades before woke was a thing.

Questions about whether it's left or right in the traditional economic sense are an irrelevant distraction because woke is not about economics.