Can you describe the mix of characters in the crew.

I suppose it was somewhat unusual. Certainly there had been African Americans on television series, regulars. I don�t know if there had been a show that had quite the mix that we did having Japanese American and African American and Scottish and Russian as well as corn fed Iowans and southern doctors and of course the Vulcans. I think that was certainly an unusual mix and I think that�s probably as much a reason for its appeal as anything.

We were stating tacitly that peoples of all races and creeds, nationalities could not only co-exist but care for each other deeply and in doing so we were heralding a future that was very optimistic and one that I think that appealed to the audience, to which they gravitated. We would like to believe that the future is not an Armageddon kind of situation as has been so frequently depicted in film, but one where there�s considerably harmony and a kind of one world environment.