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

Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

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

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.