Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.