TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

I don't even think many people will disagree with that. The appealing thing about Star Trek was always the utopia, the idealism, the philosophical questions, and (in some cases) the sciency details. Most attempts to make Star Trek into some kind of uber-galactic-struggle-between-alien-races or quest-to-avoid-the-destruction-of-the-universe that were the focus of many later sci-fi shows ended up making it worse.

As fully fledged sci-fi universes that were explicitly written with these "big" stories in mind, Mass Effect or The Expanse are clearly ahead.

Kinda like how Columbus "discovered" America, despite a shitton of natives here and evidence Vikings and other explorers also landed here?

Discover new worlds, name them after yourself and then sell them things.

Boldly yes, but It's been a long road gettin' from there to here.

which makes no sense, because even then, we knew Columbus wasn't the first person there.

TOS came out at a time when Columbus was still being held in high regard. :)

Using warp engines, you don't really go anywhere; you bring the other place to you! 😃

Goes into the women's bathroom because I really have to shit and the men's has been occupied for 20 minutes

English uses 'man' and 'mankind' interchangeably.

Grammatically, 'no man' makes more sense than 'no one.'

"I am no man!" Says the female crew, who proceeds to stab the space Nazgul in the eye.

Discovery is relative to perspective of the explorer, it is not a characteristic of what is explored. A person can be an explorer, a group, a society, a people can be the explorer on behalf of the group. All of humanity was not the group those explorers were exploring on behalf of.

You have to have some kind of racist perspective in you to claim that it is a white person issue. It is absolutely certain that individuals and groups had, and continue to have, similar concepts of discovery on behalf of their people or themselves, even if other people already knew of a thing. "Look what I found." Is literally that. If someone else knew about the thing, was it actually found since it wasn't really lost if anyone else knew already?

That said, from a perspective relative to humanity as a whole, no, white people didn't discover many things first, but it's relative to themselves and the people who learn of it from them. White people discovered the Americas for themselves and for most of the rest of the world. While First Nations were the first to make the discovery, that knowledge not being shared means others had to discover it as well. White people discovered the Americas and shared that knowledge with the rest of humanity so while not the first to discover the Americans they were the only ones who did who informed the rest of humanity, meaning they discovered it on behalf of most human beings and in doing so, get a relatively larger amount of credit for it. They absolutely did discover the Americas, they just weren't the first humans to do so.

Here's a fun one: Columbus is also credited with discovering the concept of magnetic declination (the difference between true and magnetic North.) In his logs, he noted that his compass had become somewhat misaligned with the North star. He was the first Western European to write about this, but it had been known since antiquity by those sailing the Indian ocean. But none of that was done by people who wrote in the Latin alphabet.

It does bring up the point that "discovery" can also be a relative term.