pressed to find someone who doesn't know what a phaser is or beam me up or what warp speed is or what a clingon is. these are part of americannoman. >>> according to star trek's newest captain mogrew it's an attitude. >> star trek is about hope. there's a responsibility here. there's a kind of cac che that exists here. >> i think for all it's been very good entertainment and enlightening and illuminating about our lives. given us some insight into the human condition and who we are and who we strive to be and what we are at our best. >> reporter: the late gene roddenberry was honored at the nasa. >> these are gene's own word. why are we traveling into space. it's the make the unknown known. we're on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. >> and the future of the future. >> for us the job is just keep doing it the best we can. >> let's make sure history never forgets the name, enterprise. >> inconceiving of a future's where people work together and make that view a mainstream vision, rodenberry truly went where no one had gone before. >>> the space museum opened a yearlong exhibi