That was what was great about Star Trek. It was a show that took on social issues in depth and proposed a society NOT based on money! That was totally revolutionary, not to mention subversive, in our society. Such ideas need to be examined, and Rodenberry was willing to examine them.

Clinton, your God Emperor Of Geeks status is awe-inspiring! Thank you for those factoids from the archives.

Azizi, you say that "a cluttered mind is better than an empty mind"????????????   WHOA! That's funny, because the whole point of most Eastern spiritual disciplines states the exact opposite. To empty the cluttered mind and bring it to a condition of stillness is indispensible if one is to achieve enlightenment (or anything close to it). A human being's greatest enemy is their busy, cluttered, debating, chattering mind. It keeps them lost in confusion and illusion, bouncing around between pleasure and pain, caught up in fleeting desires. That's the premise of Vedanta (Hinduism) and Buddhism, among others.

But I gather that by "empty" mind you meant an ignorant one? (which is not the objective of stilling the mind)