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The creator of Star Trek: "You met me at a very chinese time in my life" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I don't have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.

After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.

Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more: