119 quotes found
"Ben Browder - Commander John Robert Crichton, Jr."
"Claudia Black - Officer Aeryn Sun"
"Anthony Simcoe - Ka D'Argo"
"Virginia Hey - Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan (seasons 1-3)"
"Jonathan Hardy - Dominar Rygel XVI (voice)"
"Gigi Edgley - Chiana"
"Lani Tupu - Pilot (voice), Captain Bialar Crais (seasons 1-3)"
"Wayne Pygram - Scorpius/"Harvey""
"Paul Goddard - Stark"
"Rebecca Riggs - Commandant Mele-On Grayza (seasons 3-4)"
"Tammy MacIntosh - Joolushko 'Jool' Tunai Fenta Hovalis (seasons 3-4)"
"Raelee Hill - Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu (season 4)"
"Melissa Jaffer - Utu-Noranti Pralatong (seasons 3-4)"
"Gary Cole — Capt. Matthew Gideon"
"Daniel Dae Kim — Lt. John Matheson"
"David Allen Brooks — Max Eilerson"
"Peter Woodward — Galen"
"Marjean Holden — Dr. Sarah Chambers"
"Carrie Dobro — Dureena Nafeel"
"Tracy Scoggins — Capt. Elizabeth Lochley"
"Alex Mendoza — Trace Miller"
"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)"
"Quinn Mallory: [season one monologue/opening] What if you could find brand new worlds right here on Earth? Where anything is possible. Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway."
"Quinn Mallory: What if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimensions. A world where the Russians rule America... or where your dreams of being superstar came true... or where San Francisco was a maximum-security prison. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the problem is... finding a way back home."
"They took the attitude of ‘Oh, we don’t want to get into politics, we don’t want to get into dark humor, we don’t want to get into cerebral stuff. We’ve got four characters, and they’re sliding from world to world, and if they land on the world where everyone’s a pirate, they can chase each other around with swords, so that’s going to be fun. That’s show Number One.’ That was kind of the attitude all year"
"Originally, Ryan was going to be in several episodes at the start of the second season, and I worked out with Jacob Epstein, who was also executive producer that year, the path that Ryan would take. We had in mind three or four shows to do with him. By the fourth show, something shocking was going to happen with him."
"Their attitude was ‘We’ve been off the air for so long no one is going to care, so let’s just say that Quinn got shot but he’s better now, and let’s pretend the other people never came through the gate with them.’ I know people find this hard to believe, but I argued with them over this for months and got the reputation for being a troublemaker or a loose cannon, because I wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer."
"Cleavant Derricks - Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown (all seasons)"
"Jerry O'Connell - Quinn Mallory (season 1-4)"
"Kari Wührer - Capt. Maggie Beckett (season 3-5)"
"Sabrina Lloyd - Wade Welles (season 1-3)"
"John Rhys-Davies - Prof. Maximillian Arturo (season 1-3)"
"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."
"Shiri Appleby - Liz Parker"
"Jason Behr - Max Evans"
"Katherine Heigl - Isabel Evans"
"Brendan Fehr - Michael Guerin"
"Majandra Delfino - Maria DeLuca"
"Colin Hanks - Alex Whitman"
"William Sadler - Sheriff Jim Valenti"
"Nick Wechsler - Kyle Valenti"
"Emilie de Ravin - Tess Harding"
"Adam Rodriguez - Jesse Ramirez"
"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."
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see; Saw the Vision of the World, and all the wonder that would be... -Alfred Tennyson"
"Kate Mulgrew – Captain Kathryn Janeway"
"Robert Beltran – Commander Chakotay"
"Tim Russ – Tuvok"
"Roxann Dawson – Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres"
"Robert Duncan McNeill – Tom Paris"
"Garrett Wang – Ensign Harry Kim"
"Robert Picardo – The Doctor"
"Ethan Phillips – Neelix"
"Jeri Ryan – Seven of Nine [Seasons 4–7]"
"Jennifer Lien – Kes [Seasons 1–3]"
"Beltran: Chakotay was kind of a solitary character, at least from season four to seven. I think the first three seasons there were a lot of interesting storylines, and then I think a shift happened in the series after Jerri Taylor left. I think any time that a character has an interpersonal relationship that shows growth, and you could say that clearly about Chakotay and the captain. But after Seska left, it was only that relationship with the captain that had depth to it. Chakotay and Tuvok didn’t have much. Chakotay and Paris didn’t have much. Chakotay and the other characters, there wasn’t much of a relationship there. I always regretted that because there was a lot to explore."
"Interviewer: You were always honest and open at the time about your displeasure with how Chakotay was utilized on the show. When you raised your concerns, did the powers that be listen?"
"Interviewer: If somehow the Star Trek writers were to tap out one more Janeway story, with an assist from you, what story would you want to see told? Would you want her back on a ship and in command? Maybe you’d like to see her now that she’s been home for a while…"
"Debrah Farentino as Devon Adair"
"Sullivan Walker as Yale"
"Clancy Brown as John Danziger"
"J. Madison Wright as True Danziger"
"Jessica Steen as Dr. Julia Heller"
"Antonio Sabàto Jr. as Alonzo Solace"
"John Gegenhuber as Morgan Martin"
"Rebecca Gayheart as Bess Martin"
"Richard Bradford as Broderick O'Neill"
"Rockmond Dunbar as Baines"
"Marcia Mangus as Magus"
"Walter Norman as Walman"
"Kirk Trutner as Cameron"
"Danielle Fisher as Denner"
"Fredrick Lopez as Mazatl"
"Erin Murphy as Eben Sinh"
"Tim Curry as Gaal"
"Kelli Williams as Mary"
"Omri Katz - Marshall Teller"
"Justin Shenkarow - Simon"
"Mary-Margaret Humes - Marilyn Teller"
"Francis Guinan - Edgar Teller"
"Julie Condra - Syndi Teller"
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