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Of course, rewatching TNG with my son, it's great to see two Black men in major roles. (My disabled son loves seeing Geordi -- a character who lives and thrives with a disability). It's a diversity that would be sorely lacking in, say, West Wing

disability rep in the 90's Treks (both TNG and DS9) was both extremely hit or miss in how it's aged and a complete gut punch when it landed correct.

It's difficult because the setting is a future with faster-than-light travel and literal artificial hearts. I don't think it's "erasure," per se, to suggest that my son's mobility challenges would've been something easily corrected in the womb in the 24th century.

DS9's "genetic engineering as autism metaphor" both makes me cringe like hell and gives the best anti-institutionalization monologue I can remember being on TV (at Siddig's insistence iirc)