We Have Within Reach, Now, The Attainment

Star Trek Speaks To Some Basic Human Needs: That There Is A Tomorrow — It's Not All Going To Be Over With A Big Flash And A Bomb; That The Human Race Is Improving; That We Have Things To Be Proud Of As Humans. No, Ancient Astronauts Did Not Build The Pyramids — Human Beings Built Them, Because They're Clever And They Work Hard. And Star Trek Is About Those Things.

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.

For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain. If People Need Religion, Ignore Them And Maybe They Will Ignore You, And You Can Go On With Your Life. It Wasn't Until I Was Beginning To Do Star Trek That The Subject Of Religion Arose. What Brought It Up Was That People Were Saying That I Would Have A Chaplain On Board The Enterprise. I Replied, "no, We Don't.

I Think God Is As Much A Basic Ingredient In The Universe As Neutrons And Positrons. This Is The Prime Force, When We Look Around The Universe.

Religions Vary In Their Degree Of Idiocy, But I Reject Them All.