Greatest Sci-Fi franchise ever, although it did get better after its Communist creator (Gene Roddenberry) was no longer running it.
You have perhaps an example?
Ironic thing being he patterned the show after Wagon Train who star Ward Bond who was as anti communism as you could get.
#18 He was more drug addled with a wife and numerous girlfriends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry
Excerpt......his longstanding recreational use of legal and illicit drugs, including alcohol, cannabis, diazepam, secobarbital, methylphenidate, Dexamyl, and cocaine, amphetamines, antidepressant prescriptions.
I've been a Trek fan since I started watching reruns in the mid-70's after school. During its original run I was not interested in a sci-fi show. Roddenberry's leftist slant was always there, but the show (IMO) tends to rise above it most of the time. Rod Serling was also a bleeding heart lefty, but there are more good Twilight Zone episodes than there are preachy lefty ones. I find it to be the same way with Star Trek.
It is really remarkable that a show that went 3 seasons and out could come back bigger than it ever was and spawn a slew of movies and TV series. I still remember all the Trek fans in my college days whining that the show was ahead of its time, and that the networks should "give it a second chance". I never thought anything would happen, but damned if it didn't.