We need more of the hopeful sci-fi that ‘Star Trek’ gave us 60 years ago

We need more of the hopeful sci-fi that ‘Star Trek’ gave us 60 years ago

A few years ago, I received a call I’ll never forget. Jeanette Epps, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, Zoomed into my living room from 250 miles above Earth. During our conversation, she told me that one of the reasons she chose her career was a television show my father created in 1966.