It’s no secret I am a Star Trek fan but I don’t have a Federation uniform hidden in my closet. No, I like it but it stops there.

I am watching my friend’s Star Trek: Enterprise series. Enterprise was criticized by some fans and the genius suits at the network station decided to yank it off, for good or bad. The series was good if you pass the obvious “volatile” nature of humans. It was the thing I liked least about the show. It portrayed humans as emotional, irrational and good old gung ho folks. I don’t know about you but don’t see NASA like that. Oh, somehow, something that stills hasn’t grown on me is the theme song. What’s up with that? It has nothing to do with Star Trek. It sounds like a generic airwave popular song. It doesn’t inspire me at all.

I also noticed Star Trek was also honored with an asteroid belt is named for George Takei, A.K.A. Sulu. Pretty cool.

It goes without saying how cell phones were influenced by the Star Trek Original Series communicators, and later on Star Trek The Next Generation with their other gizmos, such as the portable detectors have influenced our real life PDAs.

It proves to show you can have good shows that bring forth a plausible intelligent future portraying human nature’s better side and good overall evolution. My favorite quote from Cpt Picard when he answers this person’s question who came on board from the distant past and tells the Cpt that he must have a lot of money to have this ship. Picard looks at him in an intrigued way and say they have done away with money a long time ago. They work for the betterment of themselves. Wow, if that doesn’t ring a bell into any person looking for a better world, I don’t know what else will.

Lastly, and not so much of subject, if we spent 10% of the world advertising budget we would have famine irradicated from our planet. Something to think about.