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This seems like an opportune time to note that Gene Roddenberry was a Marxist who strongly supported China. He almost certainly thought well of Mao.
There were many people who supported Mao in the 60s and 70s, mainly because the terrors of the Cultural Revolution and the failure of the Great Leap Forward were not really known in the West.
China was a closed society. Academics didn't even travel there. That's what they mean when they say Nixon "opened up" China in 1972. Prior to that, people only knew what the Chinese government told them about the country.
Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.
Huey Newton visited China in 1971, he knew what it was like before 1972. Many other revolutionaries from many other countries also visited China before 1972.