What is the future of the human race? Eschatology is a branch of theology that is concerned with the final destiny of humankind. Can we imagine a destiny as described in the TV series Star Trek where, under the Federation of Planets, most beings live in cooperation and acceptance in a socialist utopia? Rev. Lucy ponders the possibilities for the human race from the perspectives of the twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third centuries.

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