Roddenberry’s left-wing outlook showed in many episodes.
Agreed. Little wonder he bailed from the LAPD, especially back in the head-cracking days of the '50s.
This episode was interesting...
True, but they also did an episode where they lambasted space hippies. That was a pretty good rebuke of the hippies back in the sixties. But in reality, hippies were always the objects of ridicule back then.