#star trek #sometimes i think about how warp speed is really a thing of fiction #and how agreeing to interplanetary travel in the future #would basically be agreeing to say goodbye to everyone and everything you knew and loved #because those things would be irreperably changed and perhaps even gone by the time you reached your destination #and how even such a cost can't keep us from the stars #because we were born for them and we were born to be among them #no matter what