Star Trek's flaws

The STAR TREK vision. A future without war, racism, sexism, religion, or greed. For all its forward-thinking, it has two blind spots (or three, counting the patriarchal dehumynization of wimyn, which they've been trying to amend ever since the classic, which was too-often a white-hot feminist disaster). Three blind spots is hardly a damning critique - that there are so few is actually stunning, as every creation is inescapably a product of its time, and the America that spawned roddenberry was (and is) a place of profound barbarism and staggering ignorance. It's possible too that there are more flaws, as my eyes have their own blinders.
The first? Isolation. It is inconceivable that after another few centuries of the awakening of the human spirit, the lot of the average person could be such a howling wilderness of isolation. The average TREK character is as spiritually and physically alone as you or i and everyone you know. We live in a world where people are taught to look out for themselves, for ultimately no one else will. We live in a world where, once we leave behind the momentary paradise of infancy, we quickly learn that intimate human touch comes only in one context - sex. And sex always comes with a staggering price. Human society three centuries hence will never resemble us in that regard.
Who could be more isolated, in the name of duty and propriety, than our beloved starship captains? Or worf and odo, living in two worlds, at home in neither? Spock, data, and the doctor take isolation to an even more pronounced realm...indeed, this is no small part of the reason why these three characters were the most resonant on their shows...their isolation, their sense of literal alienness, is something that touches us in ways we can only begin to articulate. And the rest of the crews...well, they have intimacy on occasion, but only in the context we ourselves receive it - sex. A tiny allowance might be made for the fact that these are servicepeople, and as such need to maintain a level of professional distance blah blah blah...but really, that protest holds little water. It is simply inconceivable that with another few centuries of understanding how critical touch is to human well-being, that we might continue to condemn ourselves to the eternal neurosis of the touch-deprived. So where is the alien race whose biggest personality trait is hugging? Hugging when happy, hugging when sad, hugging when nervous, hugging when bored...so much hugging so liberally given, would be unforgettable. The talaxians, for example. Is it faintly possible that one of the least successful TREK characters could have been saved by making the talaxians a race of huggers? Probably not...but you get the idea.
The second blind spot in the TREK vision is of course (everybody say it together now) m-o-n-o-g-a-m-y! It's hysterical to think that in three century's time (or even three decades...), humans might still be so unevolved as to think that monogamy is anything other than a maudlin, horrific, dehumanizing relic of a time when half of the human race owned the other half (and more, if you include the kids). Not that there aren't occasional glimmers of non-monogamous sanity in the trekiverse. By the time ENTERPRISE came around, they even devoted an entire species to polyamory.
So let's celebrate these glimmers, kiddies. Let's enjoy a TREK marathon dedicated to the idea that loving MORE than one person makes you MORE of a person, not less.
MONOGAMY TREKSLAP-A-THON
-The Outrageous Okona, TOS
-a collage of riker/kamala and picard/kamala scenes from "The Perfect Mate" TNG
-Second Sight, DS9
-a collage of riker/troi and riker/ro scenes from "Conundrum" TNG

-the b'elanna/7 scene from "Course: Oblivion" VOY
-Stigma, STE
TREK's flaws.
What? You were expecting "One Halloween night, neelix, lwaxana, and alexander in ferengi costumes, walk into a kazon bar..."?