there’s some mismatch when some people are talking about star trek as entertainment product and others star trek as historical artifact

i’m certainly not defending anything, the show is radical on nationality and race but the gender politics fall off a cliff other than Uhura being 3rd in command (which is never paid off, in practice it was just a detail for people who knew about US navy ranks) and the cultural context of the miniskirt in womens’ lib at the time.