The thing you have to realize is that the Conservatives have been moving the goalposts for decades.
When he was alive, Martin Luther King was considered a hard core Communist revolutionary whose goal was the complete destruction of the American way of life. There were public burnings of Beatles records. Hell, early in the Reagan administration, The Beach Boys were kept from singing at a national July 4 event because a Cabinet member thought they were dangerous radicals.
They can play off that Star Trek Original series was okay, but newer versions are walking away from the original intent.
