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A show like Monk can be called copaganda because even though it is a fictional representation of US cops, it presents them in a largely positive light and/or glosses over systemic issues, and argues for the necessity of those who are willing to go outside the normal process of law a bit to "get the bad guy".
Star Trek, on the other hand, is not a direct representation of the US. It is a fictional future civilization and it argues for the importance of not being interventionist - the opposite of what the US does in practice. It is theoretically possible someone could make a show where the US government is in charge and it's based around them putting on a pretense of not intervening, but intervening anyway, and then justifying themselves after the fact with subtle colonizer rhetoric of civil and savage. But as far as I know, that's not anything like what Star Trek is trying to be.