Isaac Asimov on Star Trek

They speak about the mission of the Enterprise being "To boldly go--" a split infinitive I heard every single time--"To boldly go where no man has ever gone before" they mean it primarily, I suppose, in... territorially. They're visiting stars that no man has till then ever visited. Their going through vastnesses no man has ever penetrated. But in addition, they're meeting problems that man has not faced.

[What] Star Trek really presented was the brotherhood of intelligence. It mattered not what form the intelligence took, or what kind of Universe the intelligence built for it. If it was intelligent, if it was intelligent enough to build a culture, then it had the right to live in that culture. It had the right to exist and be, and no other culture had a right to interfere with it so long as it was not endagering cultures beyond itself.

[...]

Star Trek was, in a sense, the sanest, the most meaningful... It tackled real social problems. It was not devoted entirely to adventure, and most of all it had fully realized characters. Naturally, Spock springs to mind. The rational, sane man, and there's something very comforting about sanity, especially in a world like ours.

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The prolific science fiction author explains what was so great and inspiring about the original television series.

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