Things evolve. That’s the nature of things. The fact of the matter is when Roddenberry cast Majel Barrett to be 2nd in command Trek quite deliberately became the most woke thing on TV. And the network’s list of objections specifically included putting a woman 2nd in command. So Gene made the second pilot, for that he “demoted” the woman to 3rd in command... but made her black. The very EXISTENCE of Uhura was to make Trek woke. Having her correct people to the the son of God (which obviously was pretty obvious, they were Romans after all) doesn’t change anything.
Huh? What? Majel Barrett was cast as head nurse Chaphill on the Enterprise, and she had the hots for Spock.
A better example of early Star Trek being woke is the cashless society they pushed.
Uhuru was not 3rd in command that was Scotty. I don’t remember a single TOS episode where she had command.
As a trekkie from day one, at age 16, I followed/still follow all the stuff about it, because it is an interesting phenom-Majel Barrett was Roddenberry’s wife and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) was his mistress-both of them wrote about that and discussed it in interviews on TV in later years-they competed constantly for roles and attention from Roddenberry. People didn’t want a female 2nd in command in that day and time, Roddenberry had given Nichols a prominent role in the series-likely to keep her from turning him into burnt toast in the press-so now he had to find another nice role for wifey to keep her from taking his last dime in a divorce-hence, nurse Chappel, who was made even more interesting for her not-so-secret desire to be boffed by Spock. No woke there, just simple female jealousy and a man’s sense of preservation of his finances and livlihood...