We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

To 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.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

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