Gene Roddenberry

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. ”

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad. ”

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. ”

I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling totally in love with 'Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle' and dreaming of having his strength to leap into trees and throw mighty lions to the ground. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name. ”

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. ”

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. ”