For the John Templeton Foundation, I wrote Orbiter magazine.
When describing his mission as managing editor of ORBITER magazine, Mark Moring considers the principal characters in the original Star Trek series. “I think about Spock, who was obviously intensely interested in the science, the technology, and the nuts and bolts of how things worked,” Moring says. “But he never really asked the questions of why things work the way they do. Kirk, on the other hand, was bold to the point of being reckless, sometimes making rash decisions, but unafraid to delve into new things.
“And then you had the conscience among those characters with Dr. McCoy who did as the why question — *Why do we have to do that? or Why is it like that? *He brought what I would call moral character to the story.”