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who was a political cartoonist,
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an English lady named Sue Coe.
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But when she saw Star Trek...
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it gave her a vision,
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not of a world, necessarily,
that she could live in,
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but it gave her a vision that--
it gave her an understanding
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that there were people who
were thinking those thoughts,
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the people who were
making the show.
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The reason most of the people
I know like Star Trek
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is it expresses issues that
can't normally be expressed
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in today's society without
somebody coming down on you
1:18:37
or looking at you funny
or hauling you off.
1:18:40
My father grew up
in, um, in the Nazi era.
1:18:44
He was in Poland
when it was taken over,
1:18:46
and because he was a German citizen, or
considered German, they were protected.
1:18:50
When they came
to the United States,
1:18:51
he came to realize that the principles
that he grew up with were wrong,
1:18:54
and when we watched Star Trek,
he would tell me,
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"The things that they're doing there
is the right thing to think."
1:18:59
The right things, you know, like
treating people like they're equals
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and treating people
with respect.
1:19:04
I would love to believe that
everybody can get along in the future.
1:19:08
We struck a note, a chord,
with the youth of this country,
1:19:14
and particularly those who came back
from Vietnam and the hippies.
1:19:20
Plus the fact it came
at a very turbulent time
1:19:23
when the future
of society, the planet,
1:19:26
everything was up for grabs.
1:19:27
Nobody knew where we were going.
1:19:28
For the first time,
people--on television,
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people saw themselves...
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men and women, as equals.
1:19:39
I think I like the hope
and the chances it gives people.
1:19:43
Especially gay men
and lesbian women,
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they're living in a world
and a society that's not accepting.
1:19:48
There's a dream that
one day down the road,
1:19:50
there will be acceptance.
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I think Gene Roddenberry,
at that time,
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offered a vision of hope
and that we would have a future.
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Not only did we not annihilate
ourselves on this planet,