There are plenty of old episodes that would embarass modern Trek with being progressive since they didn’t make it an overt declaration (tell the audience), but showed why the bigoted view was bad. Whereas new Trek loves to just… declare the progressive view as good
Are you for real?
This was triumph
Wouldn't plastic handle the shock better?
I love that this is a detail the set designer did expecting it to go unnoticed, that's a level of passion for sure.
Survivor bias.