On May 14, 2022, Fox “News” ran an opinion piece about Star Trek writers taking the franchise into “woke politics” with Stacey Abrams’ cameo as a Federation official in Star Trek: Discovery and the NCC-1701 Enterprise crew playing footage of the insurrection at the Capitol for an alien planet’s people in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with Fox News seemingly unaware that Star Trek has always been — as right-wingers like to put it — woke.
Here are some responses, including two with screenshots from the “Plato’s Stepchildren” episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
And here is Jean-Luc Picard giving a speech about civil rights in the “Drumhead” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I’ve written about Tucker Carlson being a disgrace to the Federation, but I think it’s safe to say that the “journalists” still at Fox “News” (Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, et al) would all also be a disgrace to the Federation.