Star Trek as a whole has had the potential for extreme libbitude from the start, don’t kid yourself. People love to point to the “conservative Trek fan” is the go to example of someone missing the point of media entirely, but frankly, it’s not an entirely unreasonable interpretation for someone to arrive at. Starfleet is a heavily America-coded intergalactic military force that is portrayed as the ultimate good, going out and doing endless “peacekeeping missions” that inevitably end up with armed conflict. Humanity literally made it to the “golden enlightenment” era because one Great Man made a warp drive all on his lonesome and met aliens. There’s even this undercurrent that Starfleet is basically inevitable, so you don’t need to put effort into changing anything, everything will sort itself out in due time so you don’t have to inconvenience yourself or make any sacrifices on a people-wide scale about it. It’s lib.