weren't there like, several episodes throughout TOS, TNG and DS9 where the main topic was the opposite of this?

Yeah, I can cede that the UFP was shown with mainly western influences, and that this can be a flaw. I wouldn't say they were written with the US at the helm, but I can guess which parts make you think that, and think they're not good parts of Star Trek.

make references to the US court system in its shows assuming the writer gets it, have a US militaristic structure in Starfleet, not putting a focus on the cultures that are explicitly there... which isn't the same as going "the US should dictate the future". Star Trek sorta doesn't say that ever.

The Federation is not a stalwart of american values. They're a group of hippie space socialists who take some of their values from the US. So, talking about amerocentrism, what I mean is the writers making the UFP, which is specifically multicultural and made up of several founding species...

The Tau aren't post-scarcity, the UFP has political freedom, the UFP doesn't have a military in the typical sense, Starfleet doesn't entirely run the UFP, the Tau are eugenicists which is something the UFP massively oppose, the UFP isn't said to have a human majority (alien makeup is just expensive)

But yeah the Idea that amerocentrism is inherently bad seems wierd to me. It definetly can be, and I can see how someone can be disappointed in seeing it, but I don't fault people for writing about their own experiences. So a US writer writing about US,adjacent things is fine to me.

Cause it happened to be some dickwad in bumfuck nowhere USA? Or alternatively, because the show is funded and produced by americans? Yeah, it's amerocentrism in a way, but I can't inherently fault the writers for it. Also First Contact kinda sucked with the whole Borg queen thing.

events in the Star Trek timeline, I'm unsure as I haven't seen ENT, but I doubt it shows planets getting nuked for rejecting a UFP membership. That's not to say Star Trek doesn't show flaws in its writing of other cultures, but one of the most contested laws of the UFP is its non-interference policy

WW3 in Star Trek saw a war between the Eastern Alliance and the US plus its allies. Notably both sides were completely devastated in thr aftermath, and the result was the post-atomic horror. Only after first contact with the Vulkans is any type of world government achieved. Now, concerning later

They don't really do that

They kinda do the exact opposite

American values are treated as good, because it's a show written by americans in the US, but even then techno-socialism is not really what we'd consider the american dream

There's several shady and bad things in the UFP I can think of, Section 31, the concerning tendency for their admirals to be evil, their early treatment of AI, but a lot of those things are either being worked against or have been mitigated. Then there's the prime directive which is... hotly debated

Does Artemis by Andy Weir have an audiobook? It checks all the other boxes at least

Why do you wanna cuss out the UFP

it was meant as a joke about the raven being superior to Arizona

only *near* superior to Arizona?