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Yeah someone being non-binary or whatever and no one caring or commenting on it at all is a lot more progressive and meaningful. TOS did that really well with Uhura on the bridge. She was a black woman and absolutely no one on the ship acted like that was remotely odd. It sent a very powerful message.
And Robert Beltran kept upping his salary demands each season hoping they’d fire him, since they were giving him so little acting to do. But they saying yes, so he stayed.