The Age of Wonder

I think it is in some ways a human instinct to say, okay, there are planets out there. What's on other planets? And I say that that's, that's a natural human instinct. But one of the most interesting ideas that I encountered when I was writing the book was that it's only possible to do that imagining when science and culture give you the frameworks. It's time we're asking five year olds to think about something happening 65 million years ago. That absolutely starts with Star Trek.