@jeffowski The assertion that Star Trek was never political is one of the most annoying things in sci-fi fandom.

Star Trek has *usually* been the quiet, understated, matter-of-fact kind of political. And often that's enough.

And then there's "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," because sometimes you just want to beat the message into people's heads with a club.

@bmac @jeffowski or "A Private Little War", or "Patterns of Force", or "The Conscience of the King", or "The Omega Glory"...

I had got in an argument with some idiot on Twitter who argued that and also that it was just based on the US military which he claimed had solved racism by the '60s! (I served as a Sargeant in the '90s, while this idiot was still a kid, and it definitely was not solved)

Turns out he was one of the Sad Puppy leaders, so that explained that. Failed writer white dude…

@janisf @bmac @jeffowski at the time I checked he still had failed to progress past publishing a novella. Probably a big factor in that campaign was privileged white boys being unable to comprehend that they were failing due to their own lack of talent.

Even the conservative Baen writers I'd read still got a fair bit of wokenes in, if nothing else then from having a brain.

On the other hand you can contrast that with someone like Martha Wells, who's pronoun centric woke fiction is now on TV