We could use Captain Kirk to explain the importance of our Constitution to our modern day Yangs:

[sl8]

The Yangs thought it was a religous/magical talisman.

From The Omega Glory episode
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Omega_Glory_(episode)

[Earth-shine]

1. This is after it is discovered that Cap't Tracy slaughtered thousands of the "combs" with his phaser

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Pretty clearly a position statement on the battle for Civil Rights going on when this was made

TOS was chock-full of subtle social commentary.

Gene R. and most of the stars ... were 'our people'.

I actually think watching this show a TON in syndication when I was an impressionable little kid in the 70's impacted my thinking on a lot of different real-world matters.

[3catwoman3]

6. And sometimes not-so-subtle.

In the mid-1970s, I went to a couple of Star Trek conventions. Gene Roddenberry was the keynote speaker at one of them. What an upbeat, optimistic, inspiring person.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Some were a little over-the-top I'd agree but for the most part ...

they were reasonably subtle.

This one was definitely an instance that one could call it 'not-so-subtle' though

[malthaussen]

3. Sure, some of the worst overacting Shatner ever did...

... in one of the worst Trek episodes ever made. Although there were a couple of good lines.

Today's GOP does think the Constitution is a magic talisman, but reading doesn't ensure comprehension, and there are more and more indications that an increasing number of people just want some authority figure to tell them what to think about something.

-- Mal

[bigtree]

4. they don't care

...they're Klingons.

[3catwoman3]

5. Eed plebnista (without even looking it up!).

I remember it well.