simonwood, I may not agree with every artistic choice he makes, but I do love RTD: ‘you’ve got to be the best to be aboard the Enterprise. You are the elite…Star Trek always feels very demotic and down to earth, but if I was alive in the 24th century, they wouldn’t let me on the ship. They’d say, “No, you’re banned. You’re a fire hazard. Get out.”’
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