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Star Trek is great, even when the socialist aspect isn't openly mentioned I feel it can push a lot of people further left just from watching it enough. Awesome that they are open to characters stating it, although as good as it is it would only be because the producers think it's financially viable, not for any subversive reasons. Still, if their greed makes them willing to get more people to look into what socialism actually means than that makes the show even better.
I've never understood how someone could watch almost 60 years of Star Trek, in some cases multiple times, and not pick up on the clearly leftist themes within the show. Those people are out there though! When Discovery was first airing you'd see these people crawl out of the floorboards to piss and moan about the black lead character, or the gay characters, like Trek wasn't trying to teach you inclusivity, empathy, and anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist ideals this whole time.