Hey, that's pretty cool! This post made me catch up on the newest season.
Star Trek has, from where I'm standing, always had a problem presenting the Federation as the socialist utopia that it quite explicitly is. It feels like some of the series wanted to veer away from that implication, or that a lot of the writers didn't know how to handle writing conflict within a post-scarcity super society. I think we all know how inconsistent it is with money, exchange between civilizations, etc.
Which is a shame, because I watch Star Trek exactly for the fully automated gay space communist fantasies.