George Takei and The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe have rejected a Fox claim that:
Star Trek writers take Starship Enterprise where it's never gone before - woke politics
Even our entertainment is awash in bitter partisanship
... other people have gone before. But older and fatter.
Those were essentially George Takei's sentiments when asked what he thought about William Shatner's recent spaceflight: