Yeah, read those first, or better, watch the show. I'd have to recall that specific episode, but a single star trek episode can't undo several series each with hundreds of episodes of fully automated luxury gay space socialism. The op had not seen a single series, and was arguing by proxy.

The old show had some cringe moments and episodes, but it's spirit was also anti-imperialist and socialist. It even had chekov, a russian character, at the height of the cold war. Could you imagine a show nowadays having a chinese or russian character that isn't openly liberal.