What a fucking breath of fresh air. Never watched it because I thought it would be lame since there's never any fighting. But fuck me it stands in stark contrast to all other media. It shows a future I actually want to live in. Everything else is some dystopian, violence ridden, dim look on humanity. Don't get me wrong I love a good dystopia but wow.
Fuck now I'm a nerd send help.
He even wanted the Romulans to be "Space Maoists" (note how much more sympathetically they're portrayed in the TOS episodes compared to the Klingons) and was very, very angry when the novels turned them into Space Romans/Confucians and TNG made them Space KGB.