The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
George TakeiTo me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.
George TakeiI'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
George Takei