About me

Watching Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as a 7 year old kid, I was inspired by the intrepid crews of the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701 and 1701-D traveling among the stars and meeting alien civilizations. The stories told in those Star Trek episodes told stories that had important moral lessons, and as a kid, I took them to heart and still apply those same moral lessons learned to my everyday living. 

Being implanted with the cochlear implant from a young age, I could relate to Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation in his everlasting quest to become a human. My life journey closely parallels that of Data. He did indeed find his humanity, but not in the manner in which one might expect. He is implanted with the emotion chip and human flesh in the TNG movies to be as close as possible to a human, but in the end, he rejects both and embraces his android nature as part pf his identity, just like I rejected the cochlear implant and my hearing identity at age 21 and fully embraced my Deaf identity along with acquiring my natural language of ASL under the guidance of my wife, Andrea.