The libs loved star trek for its multicultural utopian society. What they missed was the rampant promotion of militarism which infected a generation of kids including myself with the right core conservative values. The writers were clearly more clever than they even imagined...
“What they missed was the rampant promotion of militarism which infected a generation of kids including myself with the right core conservative values.”
One of the great contradictions of Gene Roddenberry was that despite his whacked out L. Ron Hubbard-style liberal utopianism, he was a great admirer of the military and of soldiers. He was constantly letting servicemen get married on Star Trek’s sets.