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She's-- She's just
a person in authority.

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I get a great deal of mail
from women who say

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that they watch Voyager
with their daughters

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and how good it makes them feel
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to be able to point
to the screen and say,

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"See? You can be anything."
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What do you want to do
when you grow up?

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Be an astronaut.
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Mae Carol Jemison--
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first African-American
woman in space.

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She flew on the shuttle--
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became a scientist first
and then an astronaut

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because she saw
Nichelle Nichols

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on the original
Star Trek series

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and said, "You know what?
That's for me."

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There were two little girls
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around 9 years old,
8 years old,

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when Star Trek
first came on,

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and one of them told me
years later,

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"l looked on that television
and I saw you.

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I saw this black lady,
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and I ran through the house
screaming,

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Come quick! Come quick!
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There's a black lady
on television,

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and she ain't no maid!"
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Ha ha ha!
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And she said,
"l knew right then and there

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I could be anybody
I wanted to be.

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I could be anything
I wanted to be."

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And so she decided to be
a superstar.

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Ha ha! And her name
is Whoopi Goldberg.

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I'm Joyce Mason.
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And I'm Evelyn de Biase.
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And we host a radio show called
Talk Trek and Beyond.

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The way it got started was,
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we were on our lunch hour
one time at work,

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and we thought
about Trek-- talking Trek.

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You know, it's a lot of fun,
something we do a lot of,

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so we decided it would be
a great radio show.

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How do you do it?
Well, I called up

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the directory assistance
on the phone,

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and I asked for the telephone number
of a radio station,

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and she asked me...
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"Which one do you want?"
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I didn't know,
so I said, "Pick one."

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And she did.
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She picked out
this radio station--KAV.

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We packed up our things,
went over.


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