You know, Star Trek always appealed to, I think back in the old days, 30 40 50 years ago, Star Trek spoke to the disenfranchised. Why do you think that's so important for fans to see themselves in Star Trek ? Something I really love about Star Trek right now and as it's moving forward is that fans are finally really getting to see themselves reflected back from the show. If you want to use the word legacy, I think I want my legacy to be 'Rod Roddenberry carried it on.' Because it's everyone's legacy, right? I mean, the fans embody a lot of Star Trek and everyone who's writing for the show when creating the shows. To be honest, I don't want to be the guy who screwed it up. RODDENBERRY: Yeah, it's a great question. What do you want your legacy with Star Trek to be? When I was working on my questions I was thinking about how we talk so much about your father's legacy, but this is becoming your own legacy as well. So I don't know if that answers it, but it's never a burden. It's just the ideology that I truly love and want to carry on. It's intelligent at times, and it can inspire people and often does. And I believe that is truthfully, the only way we as a species are going to move forward. I can stand here and tell you it's the right thing to do to appreciate everything that's different. Now, I'm not taking credit for necessarily those ideas and philosophies, but every one that I've heard of, I certainly love I mean, IDIC philosophy is the backbone of Star Trek and I genuinely believe in that. ROD RODDENBERRY: Truthfully, well, when I was younger, there was maybe a little weight on my shoulders in terms of - and this is all self-imposed - because I truly became proud of my father's legacy and the Star Trek philosophy because I agree with it.

Collider: For my first question, I wanted to know do you feel like a gatekeeper for your father's legacy, or more like you're giving back to the fans still?

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