Funny, I thought that’s exactly what it did in almost every episode.
Granted, it didn’t do it through a gritty serialized tale closely paralleling its times, as is the current fashion. It was done mostly with allegory, and usually through an optimistic lens.
But it’s all there. The Cold War, race relations, the counterculture, and so on. I don’t think it would have made nearly the same cultural impact if it didn’t reflect its times in ways that would have been thought-provoking to adult viewers at the time.
