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Time is the fire in which we burn.
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.
We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard
Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"
We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.
They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.
I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.
I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
It was 'ST' format to let space and alien worlds, rather than human weakness, provide the conflict and danger necessary to our adventure show.
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.
I have felt many times trapped by 'Star Trek.' It cost me dearly. It won't anymore, because I've come to grips with what it is and where it fits in my life.
Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
When they put out the sales brochure when we eventually went to series, they carefully rounded Spock's ears and made him look human so he wouldn't scare off potential advertisers.
I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.
To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.
The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.
'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.