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skyyler | 8 months ago

>Star Trek TNG was progressive, but none of the politics were seen as extreme even at the time of release.

Season 5, Episode 17 features a genderless species that enforces a type of conversion therapy on any member of the species that believes they do have a gender. It's very thinly veiled, if you could consider it veiled at all.

I think I would agree that TNG's politics weren't considered extreme at the time. However, it's easy to believe that some themes the show touches on would be considered "woke" today.

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api|8 months ago

> I think I would agree that TNG's politics weren't considered extreme at the time.

They would be considered more extreme by today's right than they were in the 1990s. If that came out today it would be woke gender ideology propaganda or something. But today's right is trying to low key rehabilitate Hitler.