Star trek could be considered progressive especially for its time but its extremely difficult to argue that it is woke. Wokeness consists of three key components:

-Hatred of tradition and the past to embrace new ways of doing things regardless of how flawed. This includes the destruction of beauty and history

-Minority worship and anti-white

-Emphasis on emotion over professionalism

All of these three components do overlap to some extent with each other (Hatred of tradition and history is often inspired by an emphasis on emotion and anti-white beliefs).

Star trek TOS wasn't anti-white and it respected history (the oft quoted scene where Abraham Lincoln says an oopsie word, apologies and is then told that he is not at fault comes to mind). The series regularly states that emotion and empathy are important but do not override duty and professionalism. The show did not appear to be hiring people based on immutable characteristics nor did it elevate minority characters in the cast as being above what the context would allow. Star trek clearly understood what beauty was so there's no need to even check if they were intentionally hiring horrifically deformed whales.

There is very little in Star trek TOS that could be called woke. An interracial kiss is hardly even all that noteworthy since interracial marriage was already allowed a year prior to the episode and received no noticeable backlash by the general public. It's most likely a product of the racially sensitive minds of our time that made this scene seem more important than it actually was. So we can't even argue this scene was progressive for its time when it was unanimously accepted by the people at the time.

Star trek could be considered progressive especially for its time but its extremely difficult to argue that it is woke. Wokeness consists of three key components: -Hatred of tradition and the past to embrace new ways of doing things regardless of how flawed. This includes the destruction of beauty and history -Minority worship and anti-white -Emphasis on emotion over professionalism

All of these three components do overlap to some extent with each other (Hatred of tradition and history is often inspired by an emphasis on emotion and anti-white beliefs).

Star trek TOS wasn't anti-white and it respected history (the oft quoted scene where Abraham Lincoln says an oopsie word, apologies and is then told that he is not at fault comes to mind). The series regularly states that emotion and empathy are important but do not override duty and professionalism. The show did not appear to be hiring people based on immutable characteristics nor did it elevate minority characters in the cast as being above what the context would allow. Star trek clearly understood what beauty was so there's no need to even check if they were intentionally hiring horrifically deformed whales.

There is very little in Star trek TOS that could be called woke. An interracial kiss is hardly even all that noteworthy since interracial marriage was already allowed a year prior to the episode and received no noticeable backlash by the general public. It's most likely a product of the racially sensitive minds of our time that made this scene seem more important than it actually was. So we can't even argue this scene was progressive for its time when it was unanimously accepted by the people at the time.