Most of the good things about Trek came in spite of Roddenberry, imo. TOS is basically Forbidden Planet with a lot of cool shit added by people not named Roddenberry. TNG was fairly awful before he took a step back. The more the episodes hewed to his "ideals" the worse they were. I put ideals in quotes because he was also a huge hypocrite who did pretty much the opposite of everything he preached.
The pilot episode he did was fantastic, however. I do have to admit that.
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