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"In 1953, Earth experienced a War of the Worlds. Common bacteria stopped the aliens, but it didn't kill them. Instead, the aliens lapsed into a state of deep hibernation. Now the aliens have been resurrected, more terrifying than before. In 1953, the aliens started taking over the world; today, they're taking over our bodies!"
"There's rioting breaking out through the city. Fire is continuing to burn everywhere. Troops are shooting people. My God, I...I don't know why! There's a woman dying in front of me, and no one's helping her! There are conflicting reports about who or what started the chaos. Will someone tell me what's happening? This is madness! What is this world coming to?"
"Jared Martin as Dr. Harrison Blackwood"
"Lynda Mason Green as Dr. Suzanne McCullough"
"Rachel Blanchard as Debi McCullough"
"Philip Akin as Norton Drake (Season 1)"
"Richard Chaves as Lt. Colonel Paul Ironhorse (Season 1)"
"Richard Comar as Advocate #1 (Season 1)"
"Ilse von Glatz as Advocate #2 (Season 1)"
"Michael Rudder as Advocate #3 (Season 1)"
"Adrian Paul as John Kincaid (Season 2)"
"Denis Forest as Malzor (Season 2)"
"Catherine Disher as Mana (Season 2)"
"Julian Richings as Ardix (Season 2)"
"Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator...and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap...will be the leap home!"
"Oh, boy..."
"It all started when a time-travel experiment I was conducting went...a little ca-ca. In the blink of a cosmic clock, I went from quantum physicist...to Air Force test pilot, which could have been fun — if I knew how to fly. Fortunately, I had help: An observer from the project, named Al. Unfortunately, Al's a hologram. So, all he can lend is moral support. Anyway, here I am — bouncing around time, putting things right which once went wrong. A sort of...time-traveling Lone Ranger, with Al as my Tonto; and I don't even need a mask. Oh, boy..."
"Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert, to develop a top-secret project known as "Quantum Leap". Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator — and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia, and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."
"Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator — and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap... will be the leap home."
"When I pitched this idea to Brandon Tartikoff and he told me to explain it to him in twenty seconds so his mother could understand it, I decided not to get into the physical aura aspect of it."
"Jean-Luc Picard: Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life and new civilizations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!"
"...to boldly go where no one has gone before."
"Patrick Stewart – Captain Jean-Luc Picard"
"Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker"
"Brent Spiner – Lieutenant Commander Data"
"LeVar Burton – Geordi La Forge"
"Michael Dorn – Lieutenant Worf"
"Marina Sirtis – Counselor Deanna Troi"
"Gates McFadden – Doctor Beverly Crusher Season 1, Episodes 2.22–7.26]"
"Wil Wheaton – Wesley Crusher [Episodes 1.1–4.9, "The Game", "The First Duty", "Parallels", "Journey's End"]"
"Denise Crosby – Lieutenant Tasha Yar [Episodes 1.1–1.23, "Shades of Gray", "Yesterday's Enterprise", "All Good Things..."]"
"Gene's hands-on involvement in The Next Generation diminished greatly after the first season."
"Given Roddenberry's goal of a television series revolving around the adventures of a space-age Captain Horatio Hornblower, it is not surprising that much of the international structure would be based upon the law as it existed during the heyday of the fighting sail. In contrast to our contemporary world, in which international telephone communications are instantaneous and where travel from any one point on the globe to any other can be accomplished in under a day's time, the planets on ST:TNG sometimes go for decades without communicating with one another, and the time to travel form one planet to another (even at warp speed) is measured in days, weeks or years - not hours. In such a decentralized legal system, there would not be enough repetition of practice to develop customary law."
"I wrote the bible for that show, not Gene. He took credit for it, of course. And the idea of the older, more mature Captain — that was mine. That way we could keep the Captain on the bridge and make the first officer the Mission Specialist."
"We wanted to get away from the heavy, preachy, moralizing sci-fi of shows like Star Trek: TNG, which in my view took all the joie de vivre out of the original series."
"Star Trek is not like any other show because it is one unique vision, and if you agree with Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future, you should be locked up somewhere. It's wacky doodle, but it's his wacky doodle. If you can't deal with that, you can't do the show. There are rules on top of rules on top of rules...Gene sees this pollyanish view of the future where everything is going to be fine...I don't believe it, but you have to suppress all that and put it aside. You suspend your own feelings and your own beliefs, and you get with his vision...or you get rewritten."
"During the years of Captain Kirk's Enterprise 4% of the galaxy has been charted -- not explored -- since exploration would have required visits to all the approximately 11,000,000,000 stars and planetary systems in that 4% of the galaxy. By the time of our 24th century stories, only 19% of it has been charted. If only one of a million of the stars in the galaxy has worlds and if only one of out of a million of these worlds were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million of those bore intelligent life, there would still be millions of inhabited worlds for us to visit."
"It is hard to overstate how much of a departure the “Star Trek” franchise’s eighties-and-nineties-straddling incarnation, “The Next Generation,” was from the original series. It retained much of the nomenclature and established codes (the inscrutable techno-scientific babble, the ship’s name, the naval ranks, the canonical alien species) but swung almost entirely toward the second, more cerebral form of science fiction. It had no anchor in the present, nor did it genuflect before America’s frontier myths. “The Next Generation” was wholesale utopia, a thought experiment on how humans would behave under terminally improved material circumstances. Civilization, and the future, had won."
"“Star Trek: The Next Generation” has precious little to tell us about our present selves. Or, rather, it tells us who we are not, and who we might become someday. This is not the type of science fiction that we are accustomed to consuming, or that TV and film producers are accustomed to making."
"I was very clear about what to expect. Star Trek: The Next Generation was going to be an utter failure and I would be on my way back to England within a few months. I could make some money for the first time in my life, get a suntan and go home."
"You always said it couldn't happen here... Then one day we woke up and we were living in a Fascist state."
"You know, you're only as free as the leash they keep you on. You tug hard enough, and they'll hang you with it."
"Well, it’s funny…when I did ‘V’ originally, I of course went back and looked at Triumph Of The Will and the kind of propaganda films that Leni Riefenstahl had made for Hitler. There are a number of shots in ‘V’ that are actually framed the way that she framed some of the shots that she made in Triumph Of The Will."
"Marc Singer - Mike Donovan"
"Faye Grant - Juliet Parrish"
"Jane Badler - Diana"
"Richard Herd - John"
"Andrew Prine - Steven"
"Frank Ashmore - Martin"
"Robert Englund - Willie"
"Peter Nelson - Brian"
"Michael Durrell - Robert Maxwell"
"David Packer - Daniel Bernstein"
"Neva Patterson - Eleanor Dupres"
"Blair Tefkin - Robin Maxwell"
"Michael Wright - Elias Taylor"
"Bonnie Bartlett - Lynn Bernstein"
"Leonardo Cimino - Abraham Bernstein"
"Richard Lawson - Dr. Ben Taylor"
"Jason Bernard - Caleb Taylor"
"Jenny Sullivan - Kristine Walsh"
"Diane Civita - Harmony Moore"
"Tommy Petersen - Josh Brooks"
"Eric Johnston - Sean Donovan"
"Warners was anxious to move on and do a television series, because that’s where you really make your bucks as a studio. Although they can be prestigious, mini-series are often pricey and don’t make a lot of money for the studio. They were eager to do the sequel as quickly and cheaply…and dirt [laughs] as it possibly could be done and get it out of the way."
"All of my friends who worked on it told me ‘Don’t ever watch it. Kenny – it is not the script that you guys wrote’…I had three very talented writers working on it with me. But once I left, they brought in a new producing team and a new writer and a new director, who proceeded to rather disembowel it."
"Faye Grant - Juliet Parish"
"Richard Herd - Supreme Commander John"
"Thomas Hill - Father Andrew Doyle"
"Michael Ironside - Ham Tyler"
"Sandy Simpson - Mark"
"Denise Galik - Maggie Blodgett"
"Rafael Campos - Sancho Gomez"
"Viveka Davis - Polly Maxwell"
"Marin May - Katie Maxwell"
"Greta Blackburn - Lorraine"
"June Chadwick - Lydia"
"Jennifer Cooke - Elizabeth Maxwell"
"Faye Grant - Dr. Julie Parrish"
"Jeff Yagher - Kyle Bates"
"Lane Smith - Nathan Bates"
"Mickey Jones - Chris Farber"
"Michael Knight [Hasselhoff’s character] in a way is prototyped by the Lone Ranger. If you think about him riding across the Plains and going from one town to another to help law and order, then K.I.T.T. becomes Tonto.”"
"Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques. But he broke the pact, and it cost him his soul. Now, his niece Micki, and her cousin Ryan have inherited the store... and with it, the curse. Now they must get everything back, and the real terror begins."