On the 50th anniversary of Star Trek last week, Anand Sivakumaran tells us how Gene Roddenberry's cult television series defined him as an individualI remember waiting for 10 am Sunday after Sunday – back then, it was the most important hour of the week for me. I remember memorising the words to Space The Final Frontier and chanting them with way more fervour than my Sandhyavandanam mantras... The memories are endless and how can they not be, for Star Trek (and Star Wars) opened up my imagination, made me believe in the fantastic, convinced me that mundane realities were not all that the world was about. Star Trek taught me to dream, to think wild, imagine realities that no one else would perhaps believe in. And for that I can only say Gene Roddenberry and the whole Trek team – Live Long and Prosper.

Source: dna September 18, 2016 00:56 UTC