Was the moral a major thing in script readings?

No, not really. I think we were all reasonably intelligent people and it was very easy to discern that that was the statement that Mr Roddenberry was making. He didn�t have to come down onto the set and spell it out to us.

I think perhaps you know that�s more the province of the director who has to put everything together and who has an overall concept. We were really focusing on our individual roles and making them truthful. The rest of it, was really when it came from the writers and from the director. We were well aware that we were making some socio-political statements that were trenchant and cogent and that were worth being made and it�s nice to feel that if you have to be identified with one programme for so many years, at least it�s a programme whose ideology you can support, and certainly I think we all felt that way.