Often, yes. And using mature, formal and professional-sounding prose often is a means to make characters come across more futuristic and intelligent*. It's interesting how the OG Treks gravitated toward this style, with a few lapses for which people still point out no differently.
Come to think of it, the 1979 "Buck Rogers" is a great example of juxtaposing contemporary slang with future settings. Talk about dated, it's one thing to say "attempted future styles date" when BR79 pretends the same disco is just in fashion and has dated far worse in some regards... Parody sci-fi often used modern colloquialisms anyway, because it was a parody and not straight sci-fi, but before I really digress...
* which doesn't always work, looking at certain TNG episodes where Wesley is propped up by dumbing down the adults, but those stories could easily have been worse...
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But it was 1966 and the "Series Bible" obviously wasn't solidified just yet. With nothing preceding really it as such, it's understandable. )
