@lain @Moon Star Trek's producers were proud of the fact that they broadcast the first "interracial" (meaning black/white) kiss on network television.
They did an episode about a planet of black-and-white and white-and-black two-tone people discriminating against each other.
They had Russian and Japanese characters on the bridge at a time the USA considered those nations to be enemies.
In a later series they had an episode about a character we might now call genderqueer or something, (more)