How did these things you admired in Star Trek directly relate to your work?

In the case of the original series, Roddenberry was trying to create human life on board a starship five hundred years in the future. On Farscape, we�re trying to do something that�s modern day, but at another end of the universe.

Absolutely every aspect has to be created. There�s nothing that you can really relate to. It�s really quite fascinating to me that he was able to take all the research that he�d done, and apply it and project it in this way, five hundred years into the future, in a way that�s still incredibly relatable to us.

Another aspect of the original Star Trek that I really admire is the fact that it gives a positive view of the future. I think this is something that�s carried through each of the various Star Trek incarnations.

Mankind isn�t going to blow ourselves out of existence, we�re not going to pollute our planet so it�s uninhabitable, we are actually going to survive, and there is a another frontier for us to explore.

It certainly gave my generation and every generation since the original series a real hopeful message, which is that we�re going to be around in five hundred years. There�s going to be conflict, there�s going to be villains and there�s going to be dangers to overcome. But there�s a reason to hang in there.