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I love it not only because of the things you've said but also the ideas it promotes, a united world, a united alpha quadrant(almost), differences and how it's not an obstacle for people to live harmoniously.

I agree with that about not having to be a living organism to be considered alive. There was one Next Generation episode in which these small computerized machines were built to aid in which the machines were so sophisticated that they did turn out to be living things. As for women captains, well, it was one of the first in Star Trek in which they had a woman captain in Voyager. However, there have been women captains throughout next Generations & the shows afterwards (Deep Space Nine & of course, Voyager). I only know of one of the original series in which a woman was featured. That was The Enterprise Incident, in which an un-named Romulan commander of those three ships that surrounded the Enterprise was a woman. Geordi LaForge's mother was a ship captain. Captain Rachel Garret of the previous Enterprise (Destroyed saving a Klingon outpost about 25 years(?) prior to the episode that I cannot remember the name of.

I have heard of that, the commander or second in command was supposed to be a woman because gene thought women would approve but instead teat viewer's reactions were--"who does she think she is!" ...finally voyager had a woman for captain, captain janeway. I'm not sure if there were other instances on other series of star trek but on enterprise(the latest),trip got pregnant, the race they had encountered had their males as carriers of their would be babies. Also on voyager and TNG I liked it how they pushed the idea that you didn't need to be a living organism to be considered human or be treated humanly, by that I mean data and the doctor.

It sure was ahead of its time.. Still is.. ;P

well in warp 1 which is the speed of light, you'd have left the solar system in about five hours I think. So mars I'm guessing in less than an hour, ofcourse that's just warp 1.. I read somewhere that when Stephen Hawking(the theoretical physicist) visited the "the next generation" set he stopped beside the warp core,looked at it,and said-"I'm working on that." I wish we could discover peaceful intelligent life out there and soon, if we do then we'd realize we're not alone, and maybe just maybe...world peace would follow..

Yeah, it makes me wish they'd invent the warp drive already...

I love star trek because it basically introduced me to the sci-fi genre', you have a nice day too..

Look for Star Trek 11 the movie in Novemeber 2008. I have felt the same as you. Many times I have been uplifted as a result of good Star Trek content. (Voyager) Spike TV 4:00 and 5:00 pm daily.