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Star Trek aired in the mid 60s, when audiences were locked in a proxy conflict with communist powers and in danger of experiencing nuclear war with them. How politically did American viewers interpret Roddenberry's vision of post-scarcity communism? Were networks concerned it was too "Red"?

by /u/DisgruntledNumidian in /r/AskHistorians

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