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Star Trek was set in a future utopia. One of the key things about the show is that it's a post-scarcity world where even physical objects can be replicated.
They definitely wrote the series with IP in mind... in that their view of a future utopia was one where not only did copyright etc. not exist, but nobody cared much about the ownership of physical objects either.