They are prophetic except for a very important detail (to AT&T at least) – these things happened, but AT&T wasn’t the company that ended up doing them. For non-Americans it is important to understand that AT&T wasn’t just a phone company. That’s where they made their money, sure, back in the days when they were a near monopoly. But they were also the company that invented the transistor, the laser, information theory (Claude Shannon worked there), UNIX, the C programming language, and the S programming language (the ancestor of the current R, used by statisticians and scientists to analyze data). So it made sense to imagine that they would continue making innovations.
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DS9 is really where the dystopian vibes started, though. Although there were a few corrupt Admirals in TNG and even TOS.
Yeah, lots of people were not happy with that twist, either… But generally speaking, the show had great interconnected story-telling, great one off episodes, some really funny episodes, and just excelled at character development (for the most part - Bashir excepted). Like, they have a whole episode with Ben and jake on a solar sailer going between Bajor and Cardassia… not a lot of action, but just a father and son on a space voyage in a replica of an ancient kind of ship… Or how much they developed the Ferengi… or all the great stories discussing reconstruction after Bajor’s occupation… just stellar stuff!
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He was also good at exploring the tensions within the utopia when its members wonder about how they should engage/intervene with other societies that are inherently cruel or expansionist. (I’m currently re-reading Excession which tackles this directly.)
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