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if you're posting about diversity being a negative, you've totally missed the point of all Star Trek since 1966.
Yep. Exactly my point.
I doubt that's what they meant, partly because it really doesn't seem to apply to either Disco or Picard. Both had their fair share of issues in the writing, but I wouldn't say tokenism was among them (unless you count Disco's bury-your-gays moment, but they course corrected on that).
It's not that diversity is a negative. It's a plus and a core part of Star Trek from the beginning. NuTrek has great diversity and terrible story telling that feels like it's using the diversity as a crutch.
It's like Ben and Arthur. I totally support the message that gay marriage should be allowed. However the movie is complete garbage because of how bad the story is told.
I'm bothered by the false dichotomy made in the original post, though. The diversity isn't the cause of bad storytelling. The problem isn't that they prioritised one thing over another. Casting a white male lead on Discovery wouldn't have given them more time to work out the plot, or a more talented stable of writers. The two are completely orthogonal to one another.
If someone wants to criticise the storytelling, they can just do that. There's no reason to bring up diversity unless they have some desire to scapegoat it.