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Yeah it's a profoundly stupid take.
There's the famous Whoopi Goldberg quote about how as a little kid she saw it with a black woman not beimg a maid and running around the house screaming about it in celebration
There's the famous story about Nichelle Nichols wanting to quit to do plays until MLK jr told her that she needed to stay for black people everywhere to be represented as an equal member of the crew, and it was the only show he'd let his kids stay up late to watch.
From its inception it's been "woke" by daring to put both a black woman and an asian man in roles where they were to be treated as equals and valued members of the group.
I'd like to add more examples, but it's been so long since I've watched any star trek.
EDIT: I just remembered the not at all subtile jab at racism with the two guys that had half black half white faces.
Another example : roddenbury wanted the 1st officer to be a woman on TOS, and shot the pilot with Majel Barret in the role, well before they were married. The studio shot it down and ordered a new pilot.
DS9 has lots of stuff against racism, either with aliens or black people in time travel episodes. And the one where Quark transitions for an episode and it's not just milked for laughs or similar, for the 90s that was handled pretty tactfully. lots of womens rights topics, especially with Ferengi.
And in a way that whole show was a critique of imperialism/colonialism
Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.
That’s the episode I cited.
Whoops, I was sitting down a few hours later and suddenly remembered it and edited my comment. My bad