Star Trek was always diverse, and even then it wasn’t diverse enough. On the other hand, I did find the Discovery casting choice of “everyone is either an alien, gay, disabled, or a minority” pretty weird. Aiming to be “the minority show” feels counterproductive. That’s the least of my gripes with the show, though. Plus, it finally added gay representation after decades of Berman’s closed mindedness.

I find it pretty unsurprising that the common straight white man (which I feel is overrepresented especially in many older scifi fandoms) was more upset about the disco cast than about other shows. People upset about wokeness are feeling the effects of not being represented (well, as much) that minorities and women have had to accept for decades. Not being able to closely relate with any cast member sucks.

It also ruined the reveal about Adira’s nonbinary identity for me. I saw they were going to be relevant to the story, so there had to be “something” because every human character represented some kind of minority.

But yeah, people who complain about general wokeness in Trek never really paid attention to most Star Trek plot lines. Maybe they only watched the ghost sex episode or something, but “hey let’s show everyone humanity’s flaws and how we can be better” is practically the point of Trek, and, honestly, most sci-fi and a fuck ton of fantasy. I bet the people who complain about Trek being woke also missed the link between Star Wars’ Empire and their own government.