Star Trek certainly had moments back in its day that’d be considered politically incorrect now. But I’m talking about at the time.
It’s not really fair to call anything Star Trek did in the name of political correctness when that ideology wouldn’t exist for the next 20 years. Progressive, sure, but there’s a difference.
Political correctness is about being sensitives to the attitudes and cultures of underrepresented populations. People can put whatever bs interpretation of it if they want, but that’s what it is - treating people with respect. And that’s what Star Trek has always strived for, even if it didn’t always hit the mark.
That may have been the original intent, but that is not how it has been implemented. If you’re so sure, and going to call all opposing viewpoints bs, there’s no use arguing. In fact it proves my interpretation of what it’s caused. Star Trek has not always strived for the ideals of political correctness, I could point to pretty much any episode, as mfm did. Then you’ll say as you did that it was going for what was politically correct at the time, to which I’ll say political correctness didn’t even exist until the late 1980s, and we’ll just repeat the same damn thing over again.
Ex. They put a Russian on the Enterprise during the height of the Cold War. Now, the execution wasn’t perfect (pretty stereotypical portrayal, looking back), but the mere fact of the matter was a ballsy move to promote inclusion.
That was not to “promote inclusion”. The mindset was to paint a hopeful picture for the audience that the conflict they now found themselves in, one that could very well destroy the earth, would be solved. Not only that, that humanity would find a way to bring these former enemies together. It wasn’t “Let’s put a Russian in there for diversity”, it was “Let’s bring Russia onto Spaceship Earth”. Criticizing the character for being a stereotype is what political correctness has brought us now, and lost sight of the bigger picture.