29/03/2026
Gene Roddenberry believed in a future where no one is made to feel like they don't belong. 🖖🏽
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, we're looking back at our favorite Trek moments that helped create a better future in the real world.
In 1968, a young biracial girl wrote to FaVE! magazine, addressing her letter to Mr. Spock because she saw in him someone who understood what it felt like to exist between two worlds.
"I know that you are half Vulcan and half human and you have suffered because of this," the girl wrote. "My mother is Negro and my father is white and I am told this makes me a half-breed...I guess I'll never have any friends."
Leonard Nimoy, touched by this letter, wrote an equally moving response:
“Spock learned he could save himself from letting prejudice get him down. He could do this by really understanding himself and knowing his own value as a person. He found he was equal to anyone who might try to put him down–equal in his own unique way. You can do this too, if you realize the difference between popularity and true greatness. It has been said that ‘popularity’ is merely the crumbs of greatness."
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