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I didn’t know that meeting a Star Trek fan would change my life.

— Nichelle Nichols Interviewed on Trek Nation (2010)

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Gene's whole vision was that minorities weren't on set because we were minorities, we were on set because in the future our diverse world would all be working together as equals.

Star Trek represented, and still does represent, the future we can have, a future that is beyond the petty squabbles we are dealing with here on Earth, now as much as ever, and are able to devote ourselves to the betterment of all human kind by doing what we do so well: explore.

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