Well, I understand you are a Star Trek fan.
Absolutely.
That certainly was a show inspired, a utopian future inspired by technology.
I'm curious, what about that show shaped your vision of an optimistic future?
I was a sucker for Star Trek when I was a kid.
Even though when you look back, I think there are only 20 episodes, right?
They just looped over and over again, but they were always fun to watch.
What made the show, I think, lasting was it wasn't actually about technology.
It was about values and human relationships, which is why it didn't matter that the special
effects were kind of cheesy and bad, right?
Troubles anyone?
Yeah.
Or they'd land on the planet, and you remember there's all this paper mache boulders sitting
there.
But it didn't matter because it was really talking about a notion of a common humanity
and a confidence in our ability to solve problems.
I think Star Trek, like any good story, says that we're all complicated and we all got
a little bit of Spock and a little bit of Kirk and a little bit of Scotty and maybe some
Klingon in us, right?
But this is what I mean about figuring it out.
Part of figuring it out is being able to work across barriers or differences.
There's a certain faith in rationality tempered by some humility, which is true of the best
art and the best science and the best literature, a sense that we possess these incredible minds
that we should use and we're still just scratching the surface on them, but we shouldn't get
too cocky to remind ourselves that there's a lot of stuff we don't know.
And that's why we're here to help you find your way through the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
It's by the Unition who explore strange new worlds, to seek out new light and new civilization,
to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's by the Unition who explore strange new worlds, to seek out new light and new civilization,
to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's by the Unition who explore strange new worlds, to seek out new light and new civilization,
to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's by the Unition who explore strange new worlds, to seek out new light and new civilization,
to boldly go where no man has gone before.
It's by the Unition who explore strange new worlds, to seek out new light and new civilization,
to boldly go where no man has gone before.
