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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dave Schilling

Star Trek is turning 60 – and the vision it promised feels more distant than ever

Illustration of Star Trek’s Enterprise flying out of a television into a bright blue sky
‘Star Trek posited that life on Earth might be bad now, but fear not, the good guys would win in the end. Humanity would overcome itself.’ Illustration: Fortunate Joaquin/The Guardian

Who among us doesn’t dream of space in their youth?

OK, maybe some of us. Like the ones with lives. While you were out playing hopscotch with little Jimmy and Susie, I was locked in my room mainlining episodes of Star Trek or the weird, sanitized version of Aliens that aired on broadcast TV. Fantastical science-fiction adventure seemed to offer more than playground games and actual human connection. Spaceships over relationships.

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