While Star Trek TOS was far outside the Overton window for its time, it’s now decades later and multiple generations of people got to know it during a period when its content was entirely within the Overton window for their current time.
These people are still wrong to complain, I’m just pointing out how they get confused: they grow up never seeing old Trek challenge the current Overton window limits, and then a new Trek show comes out that DOES, and they think it’s “suddenly” political.
It’s all about the Overton window.
While Star Trek TOS was far outside the Overton window for its time, it’s now decades later and multiple generations of people got to know it during a period when its content was entirely within the Overton window for their current time.
These people are still wrong to complain, I’m just pointing out how they get confused: they grow up never seeing old Trek challenge the current Overton window limits, and then a new Trek show comes out that DOES, and they think it’s “suddenly” political.