Why I love Star Trek

I've been a Trekkie my whole life. I grew up in an all white town where everyone was pretty much the same, I felt like I was going to school with the kids from the Village of the Damned. Since I wasn't adopted until half way through the third grade, the other children basically viewed me as the "Smelly Cat" Phoebe sung about on Friends.


I craved diversity. When I moved to new towns and cities that have more of a mixed culture, I noticed a lot of prejudicism. Watching Star Trek, I saw how not only different members of the human race living and working together but different alien races as well.


Knowing that there are others that believe in a future where we will all get along, then I have hope in humanity.