STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Takei’s remark highlights what many viewers and participants in the franchise have identified as Star Trek’s defining ethos: an optimistic, humanistic futurism. Rather than treating the future as dystopia or mere technological spectacle, the series imagines social progress—cooperation across cultures, the reduction of poverty and war, and institutions oriented toward exploration and ethical responsibility. Coming from Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu and has spoken publicly about civil rights and his own experiences with injustice, the emphasis on a “positive” vision underscores Star Trek’s role as aspirational storytelling: it offers a model of what society might choose to become, not simply a prediction of what it will be.