It Isn't All Over; Everything Has Not

It Has Become A Crusade Of Mine To Demonstrate That Tv Need Not Be Violent To Be Exciting.

For Star Trek Proves, As Faulty As Individual Episodes Could Be, Is That The Much-maligned Common Man And Common Woman Has An Enormous Hunger For Brotherhood. They Are Ready For The Twenty-third Century Now, And They Are Light-years Ahead Of Their Petty Governments And Their Visionless Leaders.

Picard: There Is No Greater Challenge Than The Study Of Philosophy. Wesley: But William James Won't Be In My Starfleet Exams. Picard: The Important Things Never Will Be. Anyone Can Be Trained In The Mechanics Of Piloting A Starship. Wesley: But Starfleet Academy Picard: It Takes More. Open Your Mind To The Past. Art, History, Philosophy. And All This May Mean Something.

I Condemn False Prophets, I Condemn The Effort To Take Away The Power Of Rational Decision, To Drain People Of Their Free Will - And A Hell Of A Lot Of Money In The Bargain. Religions Vary In Their Degree Of Idiocy, But I Reject Them All. For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain.

Why Are We Now Going Into Space? Well, Why Did We Trouble To Look Past The Next Mountain? Our Prime Obligation To Ourselves Is To Make The Unknown Known. We Are On A Journey To Keep An Appointment With Whatever We Are.