I never knew that the action packed space drama came from a preachy arduous allegory to irrelevant social dilemmas. Unwatchable.
The rebrands are pretty interesting but I’m trying to figure out how those even happened now.
How did the IP go from controversial lessons to flashy space wars.
Some of them, others not so much. In the original series there was an episode on computerized warfare and efficiency (Season 1 Episode 23 A Taste of Armageddon). In the later series "The Next Generation" there was an episode on AI and rights (Season 2 Episode 9 The Measure of a Man).
Both still get cited in actual work, probably because it's easier to direct someone to watch a reasonably short and entertaining TV episode than some 300 page book on the subject.
IIRC there were behind the scenes politics involved due to who owned the rights, like they were able to use the names and setting but it had to be "thematically" different to not infringe on previous series, which were owned by a different company.