Interesting side note on the Aliens dialogue, copied directly from the Internet Movie Database:

Hudson's quip to Vasquez about her thinking that she thought "alien" meant "Illegal alien" is an inside joke. According to an interview with Starlog magazine after the film was released, when Jenette Goldstein heard the title of the film, she mistakenly thought it was, in fact, about illegal aliens.

I am not convinced it is race neutrality exactly; based on a large swath of these movies, there are no black people in the future.

I don't know what news outlets you read, Charles, but you certainly cannot make the case that Trump wasn't "met with an angry sea of democratically-charged citizens". For a comment that meant nothing and didn't reveal anything we didn't already know and represents the opinions of most people anyhow was miraculously met with nearly universal criticism.

@1 And then there's the lovely onion layers of Vasquez's portrayal in the first place.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but she didn't "abduct" some black man's soul, she was just dreaming she was a black CEO. And in that dream, the love of her life was still the love of her life, so that automatically changed her sexual orientation. It wasn't about her becoming a hetero man, it was about the constant between both (which establishes that ONE OF THEM IS A DREAM).

It didn't address racism because:

1) the man was a CEO, and money has a major effect on day-to-day racism a person would have to deal with

2) he really only encountered people he knew and knew him in the episode, with no opportunities for a racially charged encounter, and finally, most importantly

3) HE WAS A DREAM. BY A WHITE WOMAN. IN A HOPEFULLY POST-RACIAL SOCIETY. She would have no frame of reference, so if he was encountering racism issues, it would tip things to him being the real and her being the dream. And the whole point was not being able to tell until the end which was the dream. And the point of the episode was to show she thought misery and pain were more "real" than happinessna which was supposed to be a reflection on what defines reality to us, that pain seems more "real" than happiness.

Racism didn't play a part because not every single movie, tv show, or book has to be about racism. And this one wasn't.

It's also clear that you were so caught up being butthurr about what the episode wasn't, you didn't even follow what was happening in the show.

@5 you're speaking to the internal logic of the show, in-universe. Charles is speaking to the writing of the show, which takes place in our universe.