We would hear really rough stories of racism and bigotry. My parents were unflinching in telling my brother and I about the ugliness in the world. Do you find yourself struggling with that? And it’s hard for me to see how we end up in the utopia Roddenberry envisioned hundreds of years from now. Your campaign, in many ways, is Gene Roddenberry’s ideal vision. It showed him that we are going to overcome so much of the stuff that rips at humanity now. This idea that we as humans, where we are right now, are literally just not even at the foothills yet of the mountains of discovery that are out there. He was fascinated by the universe and excited about it.
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When that television series “ Project Blue Book” came out, that was another thing. I took it in through that lens because I really believe that was the lens that compelled my father. I think there’s something about that he found really powerful.ĭo you think you took it in differently as a person of color? It’ll be a place where your virtue guides you, the highest of human aspirations. It’s incredibly hopeful and a belief that we’re going to get beyond a lot of these lines. It was a portal to say the future is going to be different. “Star Trek” was more than just an escape. We only have a handful of subscribers from the Klingon home world, so we’re going to have to keep most of this in English. The conversation has been condensed and edited. Booker discussed his fandom, the political leanings of certain Star Trek captains and how the show has influenced his politics. His girlfriend, the actress Rosario Dawson, also adores the franchise. Booker attended San Diego Comic-Con, and a picture of him beaming while flashing the Vulcan salute went viral. Take it from a Trekkie: That’s not casual fandom. Booker gleefully displayed some of his memorabilia, including a set of “Star Trek” PEZ dispensers and the “Star Trek Encyclopedia” from his bookcase. His father, Cary Booker, one of the first black executives at IBM, introduced him to the original series after it had already gone off the air.Īt his home in Newark recently, Mr. Booker, 50, has been obsessed with “Star Trek” since a young age. Booker’s 2020 presidential campaign which he has tried to define in terms of relentless optimism and an upbeat appeal to healing the nation’s divisions. His vision for the future, as conveyed in the franchise’s many iterations, was a progressive utopia where racism and poverty were mostly eradicated in favor of a thirst for learning.įrom there, you can draw a straight line to Mr. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” was an idealist.
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