"I have a sad story to tell you.
It may hurt your feelings a bit.
Last night when I walked into my bathroom,
I stepped in a big pile of ...

Shaving cream, be nice and clean.
Shave everyday and you'll always look keen."
-Benny Bell

Where does the prejudice lie? A character has a tendency to hold monetary gain as a personal ethic, and we assume that this is a bigoted reference to Jews. I am not saying it is definitively not, but our sensitivity projects as much as reflects. I have big ears and a big nose. An inheritance from the French Canadian in me. My Jewish bloodline had more Aryan features than my F.C. forefathers. Yet when I tell people I have Jewish blood in me..."ah, yes, I can see it..."

It isn't that it isn't there, but I would contend that prejudice bigotry and racism exists as much in our expectations as in actuality. And also that this expectation immediately erects walls where communication might have been and by this can create prejudice where none existed originally.

The only two things in the human condition that do not discriminate are prejudice and love. Neither is bound to a particular subset of humanity. Perhaps if we stop asking, "where is your bigotry?" and start asking, "where is mine?" we might be able to stop beating each other into the ground and begin lifting each other into the stars. This, I believe, is the most important message in Mr. Roddenberry's legacy.