Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek.
'Star Trek' was inspiring to me.
I started watching 'Star Trek' as a kid.
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.
It's 'Star Trek!' It's as close to an American mythology as we get. To be a part of that storytelling after being a fan since I was a teenage boy who saw the pilot episode of 'Next Generation' air, it's all very surreal.
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.
Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
