Yep, it was considered by Roddenberry and the other producers in the 1960’s to be a prerequisite for actually achieving a sustained presence in space. One of the main rules they set out when asking for scripts was “we can’t have petty conflicts because a dysfunctional culture would not be able to build a star fleet.”
I personally still subscribe to it, mainly because establishing a presence outside of our cradle will only be doable once enough of the problems here have been resolved that we can dedicate the resources to it. Mind you, I am talking about letting us poor meat bags with our dependency on little things like air, water, food, protection from radiation, et cetera. Probes are still worthwhile. In fact, I suspect the interstellar community will only be 'droids we make, but that’s another story.
And I am drifting even further away from what Phony Stark did in Texas with his little stunt against the advice of his own people, who were too afraid to call him out on his derpiness.
