Quick, let's misquote Gene Roddenberry
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If TNG is anything to go by, Roddenberry was a fan of actual diversity, not the race quota diversity that modern progressives push. tons of episodes were dedicated to exploring a hypothetical civilization that would seem backwards to us, yet respecting those civilization's customs and not imposing our own sense of morality onto them. A good crew in TNG also had a diverse cast of different races which utilized their strengths, while compensating for their weaknesses. In short, Roddenberry's vision of diversity was both diversity of thought and diversity of race.
Modern progressives push diversity of race, but not really. While they welcome certain races, they demonize and secretly wish to genocide other races. they also completely shun diversity of thought, preferring all races assimilate into their own enlightened philosophies and moralities. They are the Borg, not the Federation.
Keep in mind the character of Geordi La Forge is from Somalia. Ask any normies what race "the engineer from TNG" was and you'd likely get the same level of stupidity that labelled Idris Elba as "African American" because that's all that matters to such superficial topics 🙄
Earth did a lot of heavy lifting in 200 years if Somalia was churning out spaceship engineers.
It had a major human cull event (WW3). Those dependent on Unicef and CARE would die first.
And good fucking riddance.
30% of the human population is lost in WW3 according to Memory Alpha wiki pages but precisely which parts of the world that includes can be tricky to clarify. Many places were supposedly nuked like Washington, New York, and Paris but it also mentions most, if not all, major cities were destroyed and all governments too.
How to heavy lift a zero-rated nation: WW3 (canonically), then move new settlers into the now-vacant-of-life location because why waste space? Dark, but likely how it happened.
I'd say Roddenberry was just a run of the mill proglodyte except earlier. If he was writing Soy Trek today, it would look exactly like current year soy trek. The rot just wasn't as advanced in his time.
TNG pushed "magic dirt" and took it to the extreme. And was a proponent of modern HR culture (Troi).
The show often respected other cultures up to the point those other cultures did something Picard didn't like, at which point he'd just use the Enterprise's superior technology to enforce his will to the frustration of the aliens (while lecturing them in the process).
Basically they'd do to other civilizations what Q did to them. And they hated Q for it.
I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of Picard. While he did indeed laps from time to time, he also had an autistic adherence to the primary directive. there were episodes where an entire civilization was about to collapse or be genocided and he opted to do nothing as it would have violated the prime directive to intervene. there were also episodes where captured humans raised by aliens would come back being distorted and having weird tastes, and Picard would ultimately choose to let those humans live with their newfound culture instead of trying to re-educate them.
In Justice in Season 1 Picard prevents the aliens from executing Wesley Crusher because he considers their legal system privative and overly legalistic. And the aliens themselves tell him earlier in the episode "you could just take your boy, and we'd have no way of tracking him because of your superior technology" and Picard swears he won't do that (despite eventually doing exactly that).
You are right that there are a couple episodes (Homeward with Worf's brother, Pen Pals with Data and his friend, Suddenly Human with the human orphan raised by aliens) where the opposite happens. In Homeward and Pen Pals you have others forcing Picard's hand to act opposite; in Suddenly Human the Enterprise was matched with a technologically equal foe and therefore couldn't act unilaterally.
Picard was at his best when he acted the most right-wing (acted as the standard-bearer for his culture and people, looked out for his people above outsiders). That I think is one of the interesting paradoxes of the Trek shows: they are inherently left-wing in philosophy and outlook, but to make them palatable to a wide audience they have to add right-wing traits to the characters; but it is those right-wing character traits that make the characters (and therefore the shows) endearing.
They don't even believe in "race" )as eqivalent to subspecies, but they mistakenly use it as a synonym for species, which it isn't), they only care about skin colour. Literally. It doesn't go biologically any deeper than that for them.