>>116678060Star Trek has always been a product of the times it was written and the struggles its writers faced while still being filled with (for lack of a better term) micro-aggressions. In particular they had an issue with women being eye candy, like in OG trek where the crew snickers about the things they'd like to do with their own personal Yeoman because Rand was delivering lunch in her decidedly feminine uniform, or Marina Sirtis being stuck in the bunny suit for most of TNG's run.
TOS was a response to the civil unrest, the xenophobia and racism of the time and a way of saying "in the future, we're not going to be racist, xenophobic dicks". TNG was a response to the unfettered greed of the 80s, where the wolves of wall street raided companies and scrapped them to turn a buck in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Discovery and Picard are very much the same products of the time they were written, a time when people were raised being told the future would be better, but here we are still having people struggling to pay rent, people openly denouncing science because we refuse to change our beliefs once we've formed them, and racism and xenophobia as healthy as ever because social media lets us easily find people with similar views so we can reinforce our prejudices with anecdotes and memes.
Much like Picard, we've spent the better portion of our lives defending this notion that we are an advanced civilization only to realize people are as ignorant and selfish as ever, even willfully so. Sure, its depressing, but these are the times we're living in.