I loved the original Star Trek because its brief morality plays captured the importance of culture. Every planet the Starship Enterprise visited had a clear body of shared knowledge and set of customs that shaped social relationships as well as interstellar ones. The fundamental principle called the “prime directive” prevented Starfleet from doing anything that would distort the organic evolution of alien cultures, such as giving advanced technology to those not yet capable of inventing such things on their own. The organization of each society and the power of its culture was a key theme of the series.