The difference between a DUmmie and someone who recalls the original Star Trek as a nice childhood memory is that someone like, uh, me saw those old episodes 30 years ago and enjoyed them, and now has fond memories; not only does a DUmmie have all the gawdawful PC-liberal followup shows on DVD, they're drinking from Star Trek cups and wore Spockears to their weddings.
It is the only real world they have! When you live in a basement in front of a computer spewing out hate, I guess 30-year old TV shows are as real as it gets for the DUmmies!
Actually, the original show wasn't like that at all -- the characters in it acted like actual human beings. All of that utopian, "enlightened humanity" junk didn't get started until the '70s, when Roddenberry started believing his own press and decided that STAR TREK was a philosophy (rather than just a damned good television drama, the last gasp of television's Golden Age), and gladly accepted the godlike status that the fans laid upon him. The guy was an egomaniac and a serious hypocrite; that's how "The Next Generation", along with all of its anti-capitalist "we've evolved beyond the need for money" crap, and its squishy, dehumanized Stepford Crew, got going.
But the original show was excellent, and "The Cage" is one of the best examples of it. As far as conformity went, well hell, it was a military vessel.
(And you DON'T have to be a slobbering leftist to be a Trekkie. Ask Jonah Goldberg.)
-Dan