If anything, you could complain that it is copy pasted from modern culture, and doesn’t imagine the history of the timeline up until then, such as bell riots, eugenics wars, world wars, vulcans, establishment of the federation…

It feels disconnected from the world. Like an American microcosm snapshot of 2023 dropped into the world of the Star Trek future.

THAT I can understand as criticism.

Just calling it woke because “woke is bad” is just political trolling as it is everywhere. Like a cheap bot.

That’s the problem with woke as a term. No one can agree on what woke actually means, a bit like fascism.

Does it mean hyper left politics shoved in existing IPs? Sure, a lot would agree with that. How about overly corporate content that has as much soul as a lug nut? What about just generally bad content, or overdone content like the current round of superheo movies? I wouldn’t call them woke, but many would.

The problem with Star Trek and wokeness is that TNG/DS9/Voy was filled with 80s/90s era wokeness. Most people can get behind that. But 2020s era wokeness is a different beast, and it doesn’t seem to fit with the older content.

Both terms are clearly defined and people choose to use them wrong, like you did with your examples.

People where always upset with the level of “wokeness” in Star Trek. The difference being that less where aware of it and if you wanted to complain you had to physically write a letter, go down to the post office, buy some stamps, and mail it in. Today you can just tweet some bullshit from your couch.