Lesson Time: Star Trek, the de-facto Sci-Fi series, is entirely about gender and racial politics. It depicted an Earth that had settled its racial and gender politics to move beyond that and into the Final Frontier. Star Trek had women in positions of power. It houses television's first interracial kiss. Its cast was more diverse than any other I think you can find in the 1960s. In short, Sci-Fi is one of the most important places for gender/racial politics. I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. That race and gender politic-based stories aren't engaging? We're going to have to agree to disagree here, I think. Side note: I had the great pleasure of meeting and talking with Nichelle Nichols about her time on Star Trek and its role in televised diversity, and how NBC was going "all-color" in its network. It was awesome. It was also at Comic-Con.Sci-fi is no place for that
It's a place for telling engaging stories about engaging topics.