It really is amazing to me that anyone can be familiar with Star Trek and at any point claim it’s gotten too political. Like what show were you watching? Are you just some weirdo who went to Memory Alpha and memorized a bunch of Star Trek trivia but never watched an episode?
There were probably fewer non-political episodes than political ones. TOS had political episode after political episode, intentionally challenging TV executives so that they could talk about issues of the day. TNG continued this and added many social issues as well. DS9 was basically all politics for its last four seasons. Voyager was more in the TNG mold, and then Enterprise had an entire season that was an (IMO bad) allegory about 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Star Trek: Oops All Politics (and it always fucking has been)
It really is amazing to me that anyone can be familiar with Star Trek and at any point claim it’s gotten too political. Like what show were you watching? Are you just some weirdo who went to Memory Alpha and memorized a bunch of Star Trek trivia but never watched an episode?
There were probably fewer non-political episodes than political ones. TOS had political episode after political episode, intentionally challenging TV executives so that they could talk about issues of the day. TNG continued this and added many social issues as well. DS9 was basically all politics for its last four seasons. Voyager was more in the TNG mold, and then Enterprise had an entire season that was an (IMO bad) allegory about 9/11 and the War on Terror.