Star Trek – The Next Generation makes me profoundly happy for some bizarre reason. I suppose it is the unabashed idealism; you just don’t see that anymore. The socialist tendencies that abound throughout it don’t bother me, because I realize it’s just fiction. (The obvious authoritarian themes in JRR Tolkien’s work don’t bother me either.)

Also, aliens and phaser pistols make me giddy.

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