By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'

Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.