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things in europe and some some musicals on the East Coast. I've had a very, very active time of it since Star Trek, I've never, I would say 98 of the work that I'm getting is because of star trek. On the other hand, there probably are certain

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parts that I would like to play in certain specific situations which I'm not getting because I am closely identified with the spot character. So you know, you give a little, take a little, there's a whole group of star trek freaks. I mean a lot of them

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don't call these people free. That's not nice. What is that? It's a very negative connotation. Why do people get so hung up on a program like Star Trek? Star Trek in particular? Well, there are a lot of reasons for it I think uh to begin with

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you you must start with the the traditional science fiction fan and they can be very avid and cult oriented in that sense. And and Star Trek very strongly appealed to them because it really was good science fiction as opposed to science fantasy or science horror. Do

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you find that reality though? What was Skylab and so on is coming awfully close to the kinds of things and yes, you see that's a good point. When we started making the show in 1966 we have not yet been to the moon and at that point

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people were saying so far out, well while we were doing the show we had men landing on another planet. We really did that look out at night and see this other planet to know that there were human beings up there. So the show started to come

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into focus in a strange new way. Suddenly people said oh wait a minute now we're sending a ship into space with three people on it. How long ago was it that Orville and Wilbur Wright just barely got got an aircraft off the ground for a couple

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100 ft and we call that flight. And now today we send three or 400 people around in an in an aircraft. If we can send three men to the moon, we can put a spaceship into space just like the enterprise with a crew of 400 if

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we want to, if there's a need to do what we can do it.