Seems like the article’s author’s opinions are motivated mostly by extreme leftism. The fact that the American analogs have a better society than the Communist analogs means that The Omega Glory is one of the worst episodes ever? Not my favorite, but...
And when someone steals the Captain’s body to highjack a ship, the author sees the first-person’s viewpoint that she is incompetent and cray-cray and decides, “It’s because she’s a woman isn’t it?” You would EXPECT her to be competent, and rational? (OK, there is that one where Spock steals the enterprise to free Capt. Pike from his paralysis...)
I saw that. What a creep.