I was delighted to hear such a beautifully optimistic take on space exploration from Stacey Abrams’ in her interview with Kara Swisher on the Sway podcast.

After forty minutes of talking about voting rights and how to repair American democracy, Swisher took a hard left turn and asked, “Do you want to go in space?” Abrams’ response (hear it at the 43 minute mark or read the transcript) should be hung on the walls of NASA.

As if that wasn’t good enough, she went on to a completely earnest discussion of how Janeway is her favourite Star Trek captain.

I’ve always loved Star Trek: The Next Generation, but never had much time for the other flavours of Star Trek. Stacey Abrams may have convinced me to try out Voyager. How long could it take to catch up? There are only 172 episodes…