As Trek approaches its 60th anniversary, I’ve been thinking about why its hopeful vision of the future mattered so much to me as a British-Pakistani kid growing up in 1970s London, and why, in an age of AI, division and dystopian sci-fi, that optimism feels more important than ever.

Why do we keep imagining futures to fear, when we could be imagining futures worth building?

👉 Read my new article and watch the video: Star Trek Is Winding Down Just When We Need It Most