Where Do The STARS Go?

Hey, has anyone else wondered where the stars are on Star Trek? When they go into warp speed, you see them kind of whiz by, but they never seem to encounter them close-up.

Didn't our science teachers tell us they were burning balls of fire, thousands of miles away? THen why do they look like dust particles in all the space movies? Well, the Enterprise, I KNOW, is exploring other galaxies, so they must have gone as far as some stars are from earth, yet we never see any. I wonder if there would be a place that instead of being an asteroid field, you'd find a 'star field', with a possy of stars just hanging out together, burning away like there's no tomorrow. Maybe I should write Spoc or Data and share this pondering with them.

Anyone have any idea? Do we even ever see any other suns on Star Trek? I don't think so... yet all the planets are strangely lit by SOMETHING. (Something that looks a lot like studio lighting). So where did all the stars go, where do they live, and are they really just holes poked in the sky? Maybe that's the real answer.

Now I haven't actually seen ALL the star treks there are to see... that would take several years, perhaps, so maybe I'm speaking from a limited perspective, and maybe some episodes, they encounter stars. Who knows? Do you?