I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination, but one need not dress up as a Klingon to know there is much to admire about Star Trek which has lived long and prospered for 50 years.
Naturally, I am partial to the original series. Gene Roddenberry created some magnificent characters in Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Chekhov and Uhura. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols brought those characters to life and gave each of them a unique resonance which is stronger now than it was 50 years ago and, God willing, will be even stronger during the centennial year of Star Trek in 2066.
With that, I wish the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise well in its ongoing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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