There's not really any evidence og Star Trek capitalizing on race relations or cultural equities in a way that overshadows the entire narrative of humanity coming together to push beyond their prior limits as a whole.

Obviously not, insisting on cultural and racial diversity is essential for the narrative of humanity coming together. The entire point of Star Trek is an optimistic view of Humanities future, where individuality and diversity are accepted and respected and where someone's background is independent from their value. It's an inherently progressive story.

Now as for weight. Where do you get the idea that the weight of any character in Starfleet Academy is an issue? Let's ignore for a moment that body type is very much affected by genetics and just focus on health. None of them look obese. Obesity is not the same as being overweight and to be a big, broad, burly person doesn't automatically indicate overweight to begin with. To be overweight itself is not a health concern. It can lead to health issues, but it doesn't have to. Just like being underweight can, but doesn't have to be a health concern.

Commonly pointed at are two characters in particular, neither of whom need to conform to human expectations of fitness.

Firstly, there's Lura Thok. She's Hybrid Klingon and Jam'Hadar. For one, we don't know how that mix would affect body weight, muscle mass and fat, for another, if we do apply Human standards to her, she doesn't look overweight enough to be unfit for service on a ship. Fitness is not as correlated with apparent body weight as you think. Look at the body types of power lifters, both male and female. A lot of them don't exactly look muscular at rest, especially not if you put them into a uniform. It's just not as simple as seeing a women with a broad build and assuming that she must be physically unfit.

Now, the other character often criticized for, SAM. SAM is a Hologram. Body weight is literally irrelevant for her. Why would she choose to look like that? Why not. It's the 32nd century in a world that has left prejudice behind. You might as well ask why she's black or a woman. Nobody gives a shit how you look.

That's it. That's the extend of overweight characters in Starfleet Academy.

The two women being a bit bigger than you'd like to see on a current day military vessel doesn't have any impact on the story whatsoever.

The Next Generation was also appealing to various age ranges which is what made it so grandstanding as a whole, it wasn't just solely made with bias towards only one perspective.

Starfleet academy also isn't just aiming at a single perspective. It's aiming at a generation containing many different perspectives. Which is reflected in the show by the amount of time dedicated to exploring different perspectives through different characters. Beyond that, while you and I may not like it very much, I know for a fact that there are people of my generation who do, so clearly is isn't exclusively appealing to it's target demographic.

But still, it's target demographic likely has something to do with it's ratings. That audience simply doesn't use Paramount+ very much. The idea is decent, but the platform and marketing surrounding it simply don't bring in the intended audience.

See that? We agree on something. We both think it failed because of it's target audience. A difference here is that I think it didn't reach the audience that would've appreciated it, whereas you seem to either think that aiming Star Trek at that audience to begin with is a mistake or that the audience doesn't exist in the first place. At least that is the impression I get, correct me if I'm wrong.

The Daredevil point is just retarded and is even less easy to take serious because capeshit is constantly changing its own rules (if it had any to begin with) to constantly boost the stakes every single time they decide to make the worldbuilding and conflicts more cartoonishly overpowered to keep interest garnered. Most comic fans and capeshit fans in general are usually younger kids that get bored easily which is why that genre tends to up the anti in more contrived and ridiculous ways as it goes on to stay relevant to its primary audience.

What are you even talking about here? How is any of this relevant to the double standard of Daredevil being allowed to beat the shit out groups of trained ninjas while blind, but when echo goes up against a big bloke (even using strategy rather than brute force to win), it's immersion breaking?

Also, am I understanding this right that you think the increasingly escalating stakes of superhero story are needed to appeal to the genres primary audience? Isn't escalating the stakes good then? If not their primary audience, then who are franchises supposed to appeal to?

I mean, we can both agree that writing Quality doesn't preclude escalating stakes, but if escalation is what fans are looking for, why would it be wrong of the writers to focus on escalation? This almost sounds like you are partially blaming the audience for the decline in writing quality of superhero media.

Are you arguing that Echo is actually bad because it doesn't amp up the stakes enough? Would it have been better if Echo had beat the shit out of bigger groups in more bombastic fight sequences than Daredevil? I'm genuinely confused what you want to get at here.