When Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the idea for Star Trek, his main mission was to create a show that used a utopian vision of the future, to tackle problems of the present, using the universe as a vision for a better future. Despite the show being released in the late 60s, it was revolutionary in its portrayal of an ethnically diverse cast and problematic subject matter, and its situations that were tackled from an all-inclusive and morally conscious organization: the Federation. At the start, Starfleet and the Federation were portrayed as the pinnacle of good, a utopia whose sole mission is peace and discovery. However, as more and more stories were added to the franchise, things got muddier and more complex, and the Federation lost its way.