Well garret, I'd say it's not really just "Around here" you should watch what to say, although as you said we do try to moderate the forum properly.
However it can be just as true in real life. I once knew someone for six months, went to lectures with him, got together to work on university logic exercises with him, was invighted to mutual friends' parties and only realized he was gay when I met his boyfriend.
That taught me a valuable lesson, not all gay people are tough women in leather or men mincing around in pink spangly tops, indeed very few are, which is exactly why you should always be conscious of your language.
As to my little pony, as far as I know the series that is praised by adults is specifically the "Friendship is magic" incarnation. The arguement I believe is that the characterization, stories and over all standard of writing is good enough to appeal to anyone on the level of a good story irrispective of either subject matter or what group of people it was intended for.
I do see this as possible, indeed I recently picked up from Amazon the entire Avatar the last air bender cartoon series and the first series of it's sequel Avatar the legend of Kora.
This was an animated series originally intended for kids, but featuring very cool martial arts with magic, a distinct eastern inspired world (some people refer to it as American anime), and above all some wonderful characters and plot.
Heck, I still know people who refer to Harry potter as "that kids series" and do not believe adults could enjoy it.
So, I could imagine My Little pony friendship is magic to have something to recommend it to adults, and don't want to be too quick with my judgement until I've seen the thing. Heck there are even some Freidnship is magic fans on this forum see This topic for details.
However, it might be that you cannot get over the intended audience, or that you just have made up your mind based on simply the fact the series has ponies as principle characters, flashy magic and the like.
I don't personally think this is a good way to judge how good something is without seeing it, particularly something that has been recommended by people who have what I considder to be worthwhile opinions which is why as I said for me the jury is still out on Friendship is magic until I've got around to watching at least some of it.
Heck, while super heroes aren't my favourite genre, I will take recommendations of things in that area myself and have occasionally had pleasant surprises such as the Anime tiger and bunny, the the Kickass films or Brandon Sanderson's book steelheart, albeit on other ocasions I've been disappointed with a recommendation (this recently happened with some books by a chap called Peter clines about super heroes in the zombocalypse).
Anyway to finally reign in this topic a bit (ha ha), and get things back on track, I did recently come across a large number of audio described films, some of which I've picked up.
I'm not generally much of a fan of just linstening to audio descriptions on their own without the visuals, because I like having the chance to get what my vision can from them, for all I do appreciate audio description when it's on the same track.
I have however recently tried out some audio descriptions for films I know well and have only watched without description. I particularly enjoy this for action films like The Matrix, sinse visually following fast action sequences is often problematic, for all I'd rather see the film visually first than just listen to the description as I said.
Regarding Startrek, I don't know any actual audio described startrek, but there are very good synopses including descriptions on Memory alpha the startrek wiki I've recently been watching through next gen again, and then stopping off after each episode to read the memory alpha articles (though i admit this is more for the purpose of finding out fun facts about writing, production etc than for the synopses good though they are, sinse as it has a reduced amount of action which is usually explained on screen i've never found Startrek series as hard to follow visually as say a big action hollywood blockbuster.
I'm actually more interested in audio described films than tv series for this reason.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)