Aug 12, 2014
When a reader wrote in to say that a recent plotline in David Mack's Star Trek books — one where a Vulcan had an affair with a Klingon spy, and happened to be between two male characters — meant that they wouldn't be reading his books anymore, they didn't expect a response. But they got one. Oh boy, did they get one.
I suspect that humanity will always have to contend with prejudice in one form or another. But that doesn't give us license to stop struggling against it. It is exactly the reason we must press on and continue to do better, to demand better, to show that it's possible.