Not necessarily, but ...
I don't need TV shows to help me along with my beliefs
That's really the point, isn't it?
The most positive aspect (to me) of the original Star Trek was the Mr. Scott character. He was the supreme Engineer. No matter how desperate the circumstances, how little resources he had, he always managed to come up with a solution for the problem at hand. The answer to a technological problem is not to throw away the technology, the answer is to fix the technology or develop new technology. That's a message that needs to be a lot more widespread.
We used to teach that in schools, but not for a long time. The rejection of science and technology has had as devastating effect as liberalism on American society. We have twaddle (Global Warming, second hand smoke, etc.) enshrined as fact when it is nothing more than someone's overactive imagination. If Global Warming were real, the solution to it would be the colonization of space, not killing a billion or two people and going back to the stone age a la the Kyoto Protocol.
Agree there. I have told liberals I know before who start spouting off about the environment this:
Someday the sun will burn out/explode. The earth and all life on it will be gone. All our resources, the furry animals, etc. No amount of conservation will stop it. What we need to concentrate on is using those resources, wisely, to get off this rock and get a firm foothold in space. The efforts of the enviros will lead to naught, the efforts of intelligent use for escape (which means mining the resources of the earth, etc) is the only way for the entire race, including the little animals, to survive.
Just my 2 cents.