I'm not trying to gatekeep the franchise and my political biases are obvious with my screen name, but I just find it confusing that a conservative wouldn't automatically be pissed off from a franchise that has had liberal/left biases baked into it from the beginning. I know a lot of them don't like "NuTrek" so I won't even get into those. DS9, which was the "darker" and more morally ambiguous show, had these biases still baked into it, what with a pro union episode that positively quoted the Communist Manifesto. Or Past Tense or a host of other episodes I could list. Enterprise's last two parter was an anti xenophobia, and basically pro "globalism" episode and etc etc. The franchise has always been a left soapbox of sorts so it just kinda confuses me that there's apparently a legion of conservative, right wing fans.