Don't retract that

... no, no, I'm not retracting.

I'm just going on to say because I read the pilot.

That's what happened.

And I said, "Oh, well, oh.

Now, this is very interesting to me." One of the things that attracted me about the Star Trek was that I did not have prosthetic makeup on my face, that in somewhere, some 400 years hence, that I would be human, completely human, and brown too.

See? That is a beneficent fiction born out of the imagination of how we can be.

[laughs]

Yes, sir.

I read the pilot.

That's what happened, and I said, "Oh, well, oh.

Now this is very interesting to me." I mean, defending humankind to some other intelligence in the universe, a man dealing with loss, having to raise a child, indeed a male child, by himself, and be brown, as we spin this tale in the 20th century about the 24th century, I said, "Okay." Excuse me, Captain.

Here's tomorrow's duty roster for your approval.

But how, h- how much harm or suffer-

Well, you know, you have, you have to ask them.

I mean, b- because the, the attendant, the attendant of, of the movement of time, you know, for us all, you know, there, there it is.