Yes much of what made star trek interesting was how every week it would present some interesting cultural challenge. They were always stumbling into odd parall

Yes much of what made star trek interesting was how every week it would present some interesting cultural challenge. They were always stumbling into odd parallel societies, often rational but different in an interesting way, and more often than not they would escape a difficult situation by applying moral principles (e.g. the prime directive). I'd love to see more of this adapted to challenge the modern mainstream. Why can't we have an openly gay muslim chinese captain and his southern white baptist communications officer all journey to some previously unexplored world of H1B immigrants who modeled their society based on the works of Ann Rand?