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Just sharing this info because it feels good to see it acknowledged.
edit: removed a spoiler because apparently the spoiler tags don't hide the text when the post appears in lists
I miss the blatantness of the older series. TNG and DS9 weren't afraid to make it obvious. Especially DS9 it came up a lot because of them having so much more Ferengi involvement. They have a whole episode for unionization of Quarks bar and the Ferengi commerce authority intimidation tactics. It's pretty obvious that is they weren't on a Starfleet controlled base the FCA would have executed all of them in one manner or another.
Star Trek is great, even when the socialist aspect isn't openly mentioned I feel it can push a lot of people further left just from watching it enough. Awesome that they are open to characters stating it, although as good as it is it would only be because the producers think it's financially viable, not for any subversive reasons. Still, if their greed makes them willing to get more people to look into what socialism actually means than that makes the show even better.
I've never understood how someone could watch almost 60 years of Star Trek, in some cases multiple times, and not pick up on the clearly leftist themes within the show. Those people are out there though! When Discovery was first airing you'd see these people crawl out of the floorboards to piss and moan about the black lead character, or the gay characters, like Trek wasn't trying to teach you inclusivity, empathy, and anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist ideals this whole time.
