50. For the next forty years, Paramount and the incarnations would wrestle with difficult social questions involving race, sexuality, gender equality, disability, age, and what it meant to be “different”
51. Investigating the Data The following chart details those shows and episodes that included a major discussion of one or more disabling characteristics, and not just the presence of a character with a disability on the show. I did not for example, include every show that Geordi was part of for TNG, for that would unfairly skew the comparison.
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