Star Trek in the 1960s:
Show runners: Yeah, we showed an interracial kiss. It's not a big deal.
Star Trek fans: Wow, that's great. That really shouldn't be a big deal.
The rest of America: How dare you show an interracial kiss! Heresy!
Star Trek in the 1990s:
Show runners: Yeah, we've got a character who used to be a man who is now a woman. No biggy.
Star Trek fans: Wow, yeah. No big deal. Kinda cool. She's also really pretty.
The rest of America: Eww.
Star Trek now:
Show runners: See! See! The main character is a black woman. All the white guys are either evil, incompetent, or gay. We've actually said publicly that the bad guys are representative of Trump supporters. See how woke we are!
Star Trek fans: Yes. I get it. Part of the elegance of how Star Trek normalized what was controversial was that they treated it like it was normal while other people made a big deal out of it.
The interracial kiss in TOS wasn't handled as anymore monumental a moment by the show makers than any other kiss. It was the viewing audience that made it important.
Now, you're flipping it. I've been a Star Trek fan my whole life. Star Trek facilitated cultural progress by showing a future wherein we've evolved passed our petty differences and started to work together. It didn't do what you're doing by telling us that we're not going to progress an inch in the next few hundred years.
Post J.J. Abrams Star Trek fans: Hooray, this nonsensical plot reenforces my sense of moral fortitude.