I love love love the original show. Every episode. I also particularly enjoyed the recent Star Trek Discovery.

Back to the original show--the episode Metamorphisis about the relationship between Zefram Cochran and the energy being that turns out to have feminine gender and is in love with him is very near and dear to my heart--after Lindsey died and I formed a human-spirit romance with her soul...my first haiku used an image from that episode: https://medium.com/p/8c4893029a98

I always had the hots for Uhuru..

The title of your piece drew me in as it reminds me of this early work of mine. https://medium.com/illuminations-mirror/its-not-difficult-to-touch-the-sky-fc77a56ebf48 I think you'll enjoy it. It's written with the multiple tangent style I used back then, which we share.