Switching between Voyager & TOS rewatches, I find myself struck by how far gender discourse hadn't come in 30 years. *So* much reductive thinking: about women, about relationships, about masculinity.
But it's the writers, not the generation. (TNG & DS9 were between them, & much better!)
Every generation has had people who see us all as people... and people who can't imagine drama outside crude stereotypes.
Who was the first writer you remember really *getting* a different human point of view?
@MLClark It strikes me as what was considered progressive at the time versus what is considered progressive now. A few years ago I rewatched "Designing Women" and was struck by plots and dialogue that just weren't as progressive as they could have been, but were certainly progressive for the time.