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.
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.
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.
Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
