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I think you're missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn't peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn't able to get past it's self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth's population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don't think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.
Also we have images of black holes.
A romanticized repeat of world war II isn't remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that's not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as "the easteners" were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It's 100% US-oriented.
Images of "black holes" are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first "real" picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this
The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That's not a hole with an accretion disc. That's a star that shines in X-ray light.
World War III isn't a romanticized repeat of World War II in Star Trek, though. It is an extremely destructive war that just about destroys most major national governments. There isn't a winner with a peace treaty; all sides collapse.