MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/opinion/18moore.html?pagewanted=print

A former writer for Star Trek posits that there is nothing “geeky” about it; indeed, that it is anything but:

“‘Star Trek’ is often reduced to kitsch…But it was more than escapism and rubber-suited aliens. It was a morality play, with Capt. James T. Kirk as a futuristic John F. Kennedy piloting a warp-driven PT-109 through the far reaches of the galaxy. Kirk, for me, embodied an American idea: His mission was to explore the final frontier, not to conquer it. Week after week, he confronted the spectres of intolerance and injustice and…found a way to defeat them without ever becoming them. Jim Kirk may have beat up his share of bad guys, but you could never imagine him torturing them.”