Whenever someone asks me, "Do you like Star Trek?" I feel like I have to construct my answer very carefully so as not to give the wrong impression of myself. There can be such a negative stigma associated with being a Star Trek fan. I would never want this person to think I'm some sort of obsessed fanatic who attends Star Trek conventions, learns to speak Klingon, or wears Spock ears. I begrudgingly admit that yes, I love Star Trek and I hope the response to come isn't entirely negative. Although my taste for Star Trek doesn't extend as far as Dawn Hanna's, I felt an emotional and nostalgic attachment to what her essay Hooked On Trek had to say about Star Trek. In this article, I will demonstrate that Dawn Hanna, in her essay Hooked On Trek (1994), is able to justify her addiction to Star Trek by revealing the program's ability to tackle serious issues, its equivalence with modern mythology and its ability to make her think. Hanna establishes an emotional and nostalgic connection with the reader, allowing him to justify his own taste for Star Trek, thus reinforcing his point. When I was a kid, I'm sure the appeal of Star Trek had more to do with spaceships, aliens, and phasers than anything else, but as I grew up, the subject matter of the episodes I'd already seen was became my goal. Although the original Star Trek series definitely had a strong cornball element, with poor acting and even worse special effects, the subject matter was almost always serious in nature. I remember episodes dealing with complex sociological issues such as euthanasia, homosexuality and racial prejudice. Some episodes dealt with technological premises and scientific principles that I don't even understand and just have to take for granted that the show's writers do. Hanna defends the original series as "a show that dealt with the big questions and hot topics of the time: whether it was Spock confronting a Vulcan-bashing crew member or Captain Kirk confronting his animal self. Or Dr. McCoy facing himself. The prospect of living with a terminal illness” (83). fiction programs, most of what's on TV is just fluff..