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I feel like Star Trek respected other cultures?
Starfleet didn't interefere with other non-warp capable cultures who were still developing (except for all the times they did). They absolutely judged alien cultures by the set of unifying morals that guide the federation and would actively refuse the membership of and assistance to races who didn’t meet those standards.
Like every major alien race in Star Trek is a representation of some subset of human culture. It’s literally all modern day cultural commentary.
Does two days count as a zombie thread?
They may getting at something that I noticed as well. When presenting a sci-fi-ish moral conundrum involving aliens, The Orville is much more willing than ST to come down firmly on one side or the other and get a little preachy about it, even. The feeling I got is that Seth McFarlane probably watched TNG (and clearly loved it) but got annoyed when they would be like, "It's such a shame these values would cause conflict within the Federation. Sad. Anyway, on the next one..."
I imagine teenage Seth just jumping up and down and shouting "NO! THEY'RE WRONG! TELL THEM THEY'RE BEING ASSHOLES, JEAN-LUC!"