For all the negative comments about Trek, a major element of its enduring appeal is now gone. That element is the production of new stories about an intrepid crew from our future, doing things that no one has ever done before.
From its founding, America has been on a trek of its own. It's blazed new trails into the future, becoming a new Greece, a new Roman Republic, a new embodiment of great ideals.
And for the past four decades, in this sense, Trek has been America's America, in much the same way as California has been the new American Dream for those who already live the original one.
In Trek's place, we have darker shows, whose ironic sense of beleaguerment invite sympathy, perhaps, more than inspiration.
All things have a time and place, and all good things must pass. It is my hope and belief that Trek's time is not past. It is, after all, about the future.
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