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2026-06-18 12:30:03

“Star Trek has always been ‘woke’. You just grew up to be a bad person.”
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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" (@Lana@beige.party)
"when did Star Trek get woke??" In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands],…