Really obsessed with star trek tos being 1960s progressive. People think this means it's either Wildly Offensive or Still Relevant Today but it's actually both. It kind of takes turns
Tos is like. It's progressive for the 1960s. It's less sexist than any other show I've seen from the same time period and this doesn't make it Not Sexist it's just also 60s feminist. Tos is antiracist and it will paint a white actor brown to have him play an alien to make a point about how racism is bad. Tos is more committed to being against xenophobia than most of today's leftists. Groundbreaking showstopping incredible. DEEPLY flawed by today's standards. Nobody's doing it like her
I mentioned something in a previous post about the casting of actors of color for the roles of Starfleet flag officer Commodore Stone, Dr M'benga and Dr Richard Daystrom.
They just peppered the corridors and other shipboard sets with actors of color, acting like it was a normal thing to do in the 1960s. This example from the episode Balance of Terror stands out:
The wedding of Tomlinson and Martine; among the attendees; another African American female crew member, who's not Uhura, and possibly the only Asian female crew member seen in TOS.
There are a few more Asian crew members that are women!
In A Taste of Armageddon, we have Yeoman Tamura.
In That Which Survives, Lt. Rahda as a character is ostensibly South Asian, as she wears a bindi. (However, the actress herself is not South Asian. Still, I do think it was a good-faith attempt to include characters of color, though they could have done more.)
Also, aside from other Asian women as crew members, there was at least one more Black woman as a crew member—Lt. Charlene Masters in The Alternative Factor.