So I do like Star Trek a lot, especially TNG, DS9, and Below Decks. Voyager and TOS are fine. Space socialism is pretty good and I can't get enough of it. There are a few common tropes that irk me. tho.
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Baseball is cracker Amerikkkan nonsense - You telling me that all these different species and planets get together to chill, and the vibe they're gonna channel is Ohio?? Football (soccer) or some version of hockey make a lot more sense, you can pick up and start playing immediately. I can't imagine Worf wanting to learn all those pointless rules about balls and strikezones and fowls. Sisko is arguably the best captain of any series, and I really get pulled out of an episode every time he drops some awful baseball trivia. It's only slightly better than Nascar. I actually know one Scottish person who really likes baseball, and he's literally the worst person I know.
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The tribunal - It's so damn common. It seems like every season there's got to be a court-martial, hearing, or appeal against a Starfleet decision. I guess Law and Order is big there. It's probably a minor critique, but it does reinforce the ideology that Western courtrooms are fair.
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Kirk is a sex pest - This has been said to death, but leave your subordinates alone.
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Poker in TNG - Poker has to be the worst form of entertainment, and I genuinely like maths. I blame TNG for reigniting the poker craze of the 90s and ruining all my guy friends' personalities.
There's a DS9 episode where they talk about football (not the American king) and it seems like that's the most popular sport in the Federation. Siskos baseball obsession is a niche thing he's personally into, it's like a guy being really into Scottish Games in the US .
Like golf?
Nah. Golf is actually quite popular in the developed world, you actually don't have to be THAT rich to indulge and the West has a big enough class of labor aristocrats and petite bourgeois to make it popular. Heck I've met tow truck drivers with enough scratch to engage in it. The really regressive thing about golf is it takes up a fuck ton of land for a really boring sport that's basically designed for rich people to get drunk while doing. Baseball just requires a field about the same size as any other sport field (albeit much more differently shaped) and can be enjoyed by people of pretty much all socioeconomic levels.