Just watched the finale of DS9. It features an orange-hued dictator with bad skin and weird hair at the top of a dictatorship staffed by religiously-devoted yes-men, hyper-aggressive murder troopers, and cynical opportunists, who even as the whole thing is falling apart around their ears, keep trying to find another patsy to take the blame for the ever-deteriorating situation.

So, spot-on depiction of the future, really.

Star Trek would never have been greenlighted if it had been created in the late 70s or any point after that.

True, it has it's flaws, and has been abused through the years, but at core it represents HOPE in the future, a better world, competent, well educated people. Apparently that's not what the producers like. Boot, face, forever.