I wasn`t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you`ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain`s chair.