User blog:TrekkyStar/I don't hate Star Trek

There have been a lot of people on Memory Gamma who say that I have simply abandon what Star Trek really is. They say that Gene Roddenberry was an atheist---he was. Trust me, I absolutely love Gene's work on Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I'm not trying to destroy it. So I do respect him and his work. Some of Gene's ideas may be flawed and merely fantasy, but I LOVE the idea of a whole crew spending life aboard a starship, exploring stars and nebulas. So what's flawed and merely fantasy? His atheistic views. Now I don't mind that much Gene was an atheist, what I mind is his view of religion and faith. How in the world did Gene think that religion could be absolutely destroyed---it's not logical. Now with over population on the rise, on planet Earth, you could probably say the population on Earth would be about 12,000,000,000 by the end of the 21st century (2200). If even 25 percent of those people are religious, how can you get 3,000,000,000 people to simply forget their religion. Where is the sensibility in that! Plus, it seems that religion is not gone in the Star Trek universe, in episodes like "Court Martial" or "Balance of Terror", there is a Chapel aboard the Enterprise, and Kirk's defendant speaks of the Bible! In one of my past blogs I explained how a civilization cannot survive without believes and/or religion. I would love to be on a starship in the 23rd (or 24th) century butif there is nothing more to life than the maybe 100 years to live, fighting cybernetic Borg drones that want to take away your individuality, and war. Why would any person want to live? So that is why I have put FAITH into my articles, my blogs, my stories, and my characters.