Message:Racial justice perhaps in Trek, but the 1960s was different. I lived it. Watch a movie from 1967, Summer of Love, and see how country was really feeling. (See title of topic as case in point.)
SJW implies male=female in ability and desires. Something Trek never fostered. They had a chance to add a female Number One (in pilot) but knew it would not fly. Trek had a couple female writers which helped the changing perspective for guest stars. Yet there was plenty of "Brain, Brain what is Brain." Mostly Trek was Sci-Fi taken seriously. NASA helped that more than a desire to do cultural good.
Even in NextGen they had chance for a significant female lead, but there too it was a Boys Club. How quick they replaced Tasha Yar when nudes of her were published. A hero Kid way before a female captain or female Spock in Quantum Leap guy series attempt. There was an episode where The Counselor said that her races' marry in the nude. They could have filmed that scene and aired it to truly push the envelop. Nope. Just people in love standing. What was the problem? Mind you PBS at the time was showing woman how to conduct breast exams and had already had British tits no blur in programs like I, Claudius. The censors could never cut away from a painting or clothe a marble (unless it was Monty Python in 1969). 1980's brought VHS and XXX into homes, there could have been a sea change. Daytime Soaps were praying for any primetime show to break the Hays Code (so all could). Trek was not going to be the place for SJW.
You're imprinting today's ideal on the past.
You youngsters do not fully appreciate the changes wrought in the seventies. Hard Core cinema was seen as date night at movies in NYC. The sixties had the riots and assassins, but the seventies brought sex into the protests. Equal Rights Amendment by 1980s may have gone down in flames but equality of the sexes would spawn true SJW shows like Maude and Mary Tyler Moore. (Yet did they?) God will get you for that Arthur.
Billie Jean King and Roe v Wade, the seventies were point where identity politics started. Classic Trek was not part of the debate; they were the one continuing what was started in I, Spy, black leads in technical roles. It was racial justice show not SJW. You know of Julia (series) in 1968?
To compare the "don't offend me with labels" SJW of today to the boundary pushed by Trek is painting with a rather broad brush. Kirk was a ravishing pirate, and he hated hippies free love. He would not want a woman commanding of his Shuttle Craft, anymore than he would allow a female dominated society to last the forty minutes. Did he ever let a woman even slide a fader to beam him up.
I think Kirk would be seen as anti-SJW by most of today's Twitter crowd. They have the Battlestar Galactic reboot as their SJW show. Or female Dr Who?
Yours,
IronRed
26-Nov-2020