ST is only nine years old and seems bogged down in inane trekkie-bopper thinking and yes, commercialism! … if you’re around in fifty or one hundred years. ST is to the 20th century what Aristotle was to the classical period… what Dante was to the Middle Ages. A unique educational medium, and a product of the culture of our time, answering a special need that will make the patterns of our time more comprehensive to the future.

Star Trek fan writing her introduction to the 1975 fanzine WARPed Mind.