you that much.
Gabriel: Obviously,
someone never grew out of the 1960s.
Y eah. I spent a lot of time
in vans, that's for sure.
We're going to put
a laser beam on the front
so when we're driving
on a foggy day,
we can shoot, like,
a 1,000-foot beam.
My name is Lieutenant Commander
Barbara Adams.
I'm commanding officer
of the U.S.S. Artemis,
which is the Little Rock unit
of the Federation Alliance.
I'm here at the sci-fi
convention in Boston,
where Federation Alliance
has brought some of our things up here.
I've come because a lot of people have
shown a lot of interest in what I did
in going to the trial
in my uniform.
I was selected, summoned for the jury
for the Whitewater trial
in Little Rock, Arkansas.
We've had a lot of curious people
asking about the organization
and also looking into my drawings,
which I do as sort of a hobby.
I studied graphic design,
and I enjoy drawing,
and I also enjoy drawing
the Star Trek people.
One of our charters
in the Federation Alliance
is to perform community service,
and as commanding officer,
I'm the role model for my crew,
and so I felt it was necessary and a
good decision for me to wear my uniform.
For more than a week, everybody's seen
the picture of Barbara Adams...
And each morning, there seemed
to be more and more reporters
because they were waiting to see
if I was going to come in my uniform,
and it got to the point
where there was just a wall
of cameras, tripods, reporters,
and I would literally have
to walk all the way around them
just to get to the door
because they would not move.
It just got ridiculous.
My brother had a picture of her
on our refrigerator for two months
walking out of the courtroom
in Arkansas.
Adams: And one of the newspapers
had reported that every day,
I would walk past the reporters
with a Vulcan-like stoicism.
Wow!
So, they don't know how close
they actually hit the mark,
because usually, before
all this brewed up,
I would always come
to these conventions
and our appearances
as a Vulcan.
There was a bus driver
that I'd already met.
He kept asking me,
"What are you going to do?
Why do you keep wearing the uniform?
What are you going to do if
the president comes down to testify?"
And I said,
"I'll wear my uniform."
He said, "But it's the president
of the United States!"
"I'll wear my uniform."
We came to a stoplight.
He turned around and he looked at me,
and he said,
"You are a brave woman."
Every day, I wear
my communicator badge,
my rank pips,
and my tricorder.
[Badge Beeps]
To me, as being an officer in
the Federation Alliance 24 hours a day,
even when I'm not in uniform,
I still want that known
that I'm at heart
a Starfleet officer.
I used to read about her
in the newspaper, and I saw her,
and I got her autograph.
Basically, the philosophy
behind Star Trek
that she is so,
um, promoting...
is the philosophy
behind an honest juror.
That's what you need on a jury
is an open-minded person.
Based on the ideals of Star Trek, yeah,
I think she'd be an asset.
This is what she wants to do.
This is America.
I mean, we should be able to do
what we want to do.
You know, look how we want to
look, say what we want to say.
I think she's a pretty neat lady
to have the guts to, um,
kind of be herself,
even on an important thing
like being a juror.
You can put on a uniform for football
year-round, nobody cares.
Basketball year-round,
nobody cares.
Put on a Star Trek uniform,
people get a case of the giggles.
I don't want my officers to ever
feel ashamed to wear their uniform.
And...so,
I went to a civic duty.
What we do is community service.
I was performing my civic duty.
I wore my uniform,
just as any other officer
in the military would wear theirs.
I came to meet the stars.
I like to see
a different side of the stars,
the personal side.
DeForest Kelley:
While I was in Florida,
RuthAnn presented me
with this belt buckle
on my