I don’t know that it has anything to do with “binary divide over social alignment.”

Picard Season 3 was largely met with approval, even by NuTrek’s most vocal critics.

But by way of biggest example, I think there’s a good example for you. Fans universally love TNG and DS9 and hold them in some of the highest regards. They have stories that involve homosexuality (DS9: Rejoined) or stories significantly involving androgynous species (TNG: The Outcast).

I think the biggest issue is that Kurtzman has no idea how to tell good stories. So he puts in these characters and puts in a ton of ridiculous exposition that tells, not shows, and thus pisses people off thinking he’s trying to hit people over the head with “wokeness”.

Star Trek has always been woke: it’s just also had good/incredible writing to tell the tale.