> (inexplicably) conservative wing of Trek fandom was outraged that a show about happy space communists solving problems while remaining friends suddenly “got woke.” Good, old-fashioned Star Trek at least had the good grace to cloak its progressivism in allegory that could slide past the otherwise closed minds of some of its viewers.

For all the great points raised in the article, I was struck my the deliberate meanness of these lines. Can someone tell me who this was meant to appeal to? Why are people writing like this? Have we lost all hope of any sort of peace in this so called 'culture' war? Its ironic because the writer starts by how grim and militaristic Picard is and then launches that missile above at unsuspecting readers!