DS9's Dr. Bashir and the Church of Satan

The half alien member of the crew, Mr. Spock played by Leonard Nimoy is incredibly controversial to the studio. NBC really wants to drop him because they say, look, this guy looks kind of satanic,. He doesn't have a goatee, but his eyebrows are doing a lot of work and he's got pointy ears. And Roddenberry made an amazing rebuttal in which he said we couldn't do a space show without at least one person on board who constantly reminded you that you are out in space and in a world of the future. There was a phenomenon, cultural phenomenon that is relatively contemporary, where people in Canada were drawing exactly what Max has on his