Star Trek Was An Attempt To Say

When You Get Into An Airplane By Yourself And Take Off, You Find Yourself In This Lovely, Three-dimensional World Where You Can Go In Any Direction. There Is No Feeling Any More Exciting Than That.

We Must Question The Story Logic Of Having An All-knowing All-powerful God, Who Creates Faulty Humans, And Then Blames Them For His Own Mistakes.

We Stress Humanity, And This Is Done At Considerable Cost. We Can't Have A Lot Of Dramatics That Other Shows Get Away With - Promiscuity, Greed, Jealousy. None Of Those Have A Place In 'star Trek.'

...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.

Ancient Astronauts Didn't Build The Pyramids. Human Beings Built The Pyramids, Because They're Clever And They Work Hard.