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I think that is exactly what happened. As others mentioned, the Bell Riots led to widespread clamouring for rights in general. Between the 2024 Bell Riots and the 2063 first contact between humanity and the Vulcans, we have, in Christopher Pike's own words, "... the Second Civil War, then the Eugenics War, and finally, just... World War III. This was our last day. The day the Earth we knew ceased to exist. What began as an eruption in one nation ended in the eradication of 600,000 species of animal and plants, and 30% of Earth's population. Global suicide." And what Captain Pike glossed over? Oh gee, you could write whole books on it. Look up Colonel Green. After World War III, he went on an Exterminatus campaign. Everyone who was not 100% genetically pure, such as Augments and mutants from the war, was exterminated by his faction. 37 million deaths were attributed to him, and he was seen as such evil that an alien silicoid race known as the Excalbians made a simulation of him to understand humanity's concepts of good and evil.
So, yeah. The story we get is the realistic story you mentioned. If we are on the Trek timeline, we've got some horrible shit ahead of us. We still have the Bell Riots ahead of us (we're actually past the point in time, but it sure looks like those writers were presentient when they wrote Past Tense Parts 1 and 2 back in 1995!), and we sure seem on course for World War III. The world sure doesn't need Khan Noonian Singh, though. Between Xi, Putin, Kim, and Trump, we have the megalomaniac asshole niche QUITE filled!!!
Interesting, but whatever happens in our version, nobody is coming, there are no greater powers watching, no groups in charge, there isn't even a powerful secret cabal running things. We're all lost children beating each other with increasingly powerful and deadly sticks until there's nobody left standing and it all starts over.