Imagine if DS9 premiered in this day and age; Black "DEI" captain, "Transgender" Alien, "FEEMALE" Major, Arab doctor, "woke politics" about an occupation ending, we'd never hear the end of it
Imagine if DS9 premiered in this day and age; Black "DEI" captain, "Transgender" Alien, "FEEMALE" Major, Arab doctor, "woke politics" about an occupation ending, we'd never hear the end of it
Really shows how in just thirty years the US has regressed culturally 75 years
Not really. Star Trek's always been way ahead when it comes to inclusion. Everything else in the 90s was the same homophobic, backwards crap. Except maybe Jim Henson's Dinosaurs
"I'M COMING OUT OF THE CLOTHSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!" laughtrack because gay existing
4chan and the larger gamergate movement took the racism that was still bubbling under the surface of america and sucked it up with a big novelty drink straw back into the forefront of polite society where now it's socially acceptable to say you hate black people, oh I'm sorry "woke", can't say outright you hate black people jusssssssst yet ;)
So much this
To say nothing of the backlash from Kira being a self-described terrorist
you couldn't make the maquis storyline or kira post-9-11
There would be three hour
Youtube videos from each Youtube chud for each hour of show, minimum.They might say "is DS9 FINALLY GOOD?!" some years later when they see the Section 31 blue curtains and the planetwide extermination attempts, though.
There would be even more "Gul Dukat did nothing wrong" posts than before
Dukat's actor went out of his way to voluntarily and personally address the fandom at the time and tell them in an open letter "GUL DUKAT IS THE BAD GUY. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR MY CHARACTER."
Now there'd be Youtube videos saying "GUL DUKAT CUCKED BY DEI?!"
HOW DARE YOU MAKE A COMEDIC EPISODE STARRING FERENGI?