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but we are going forth.
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What progress!
1:20:05
With a sense of adventure.
1:20:08
Gene said not only
there is going to be a tomorrow,
1:20:10
but it's going to be a better,
kinder, more gentle world tomorrow.
1:20:14
And he liked to talk about
the things that bug us today,
which was back in the sixties,
1:20:19
and put them in some kind
of a disguised form
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because of course, the network
would never let us talk about
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things that were political
or war or stuff like this.
1:20:27
We couldn't mention
the black/white problem,
1:20:29
so you know what happened--
1:20:31
We painted Frank Gorshin
half-black and half-white
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and his adversary was half-white
and half-black.
1:20:35
We set them at each other,
and it looked so ridiculous up on screen
1:20:39
that everybody had to look at it
and say, "Hey, we get this."
1:20:42
I think this is going to be
my basic prediction here,
1:20:44
that Star Trek will become
the blueprint for the 21st century.
1:20:49
The philosophy, the ideals,
the prime directive--
1:20:52
they're all going to be a genetic map
for a better future,
1:20:57
a better tomorrow,
for better mankind.
1:20:59
My feeling is that
we've had a great time.
1:21:02
We've had 30 years.
There have been tribulations and trials
1:21:05
as well as triumphs,
1:21:08
but, you know, the consensus
is of a very positive nature.
1:21:14
I don't want to be
one of those people
1:21:16
who's still talking about it
20 years--
1:21:19
Well, it is. It's 30 years
after the fact.
1:21:21
God almighty.
I am one of those people!
1:21:23
Oh, my God! No!
1:21:25
We would do these conventions.
We'd say,
1:21:27
"Well, it will probably last another
couple of years and that'll be it,"
1:21:31
you know.
1:21:34
10 years later, we're saying,
"Well, it'll probably last
another couple of years."
1:21:41
20 years later, we're saying, "Good God,
it's going to go on forever."
1:21:44
I don't think that
it will ever die.
1:21:46
I don't think that something
like that can ever die.
1:21:48
You've got a phenomenon. After all,
this is our 20th century mythology.
1:21:52
That's big.
1:21:55
I don't know.
I hope it lasts forever.
1:21:56
It's a good thing.
It's--It's, um...