It Has Become A Crusade Of Mine

Star Trek Was An Attempt To Say That Humanity Will Reach Maturity And Wisdom On The Day That It Begins Not Just To Tolerate, But Take A Special Delight In Differences In Ideas And Differences In Life Forms.

...nuclear Warfare Is Not Necessary To Cause A Breakdown Of Our Society. You Take A Large City Like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their Water Supply Comes From Hundreds Of Miles Away And Any Interruption Of That, Or Food, Or Power For Any Period Of Time, You're Going To Have Riots In The Streets. Our Society Is So Fragile, So Dependent On The Interworking Of Things To Provide Us With Goods And Services, That You Don't Need Nuclear Warfare To Fragment Us Anymore Than The Romans Needed It To Cause Their Eventual Downfall.

In The Fifth Season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] Viewers Will See More Of Shipboard Life [including] Gay Crew Members In Day-to-day Circumstances.

It Isn't All Over; Everything Has Not Been Invented; The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning.

Let Me End With An Explanation Of Why I Believe The Move Into Space To Be A Human Imperative. It Seems To Me Obvious In Too Many Ways To Need Listing That We Cannot Much Longer Depend Upon Our Planet's Relatively Fragile Ecosystem To Handle The Realities Of The Human Tomorrow. Unless We Turn Human Growth And Energy Toward The Challenges And Promises Of Space, Our Only Other Choice May Be The Awful Risk, Currently Demonstrable, Of Stumbling Into A Cycle Of Fratricide And Regression Which Could End All Chances Of Our Evolving Further Or Of Even Surviving.