587 quotes found
"Spielfilme"
"Fernsehserien"
"Regie: Stuart Baird"
"Drehbuch: John Logan"
"Genre: Science-Fiction"
"Erschienen: 2003"
"Hauptdarsteller:"
"Worf: "Romulanisches Ale sollte verboten werden." LaForge: "Ist es doch.""
"Picard: "Computer, bereithalten. Selbstzerstörungssequenz Omega. Kennung: Stimmmuster Jean-Luc Picard. Autorisierung: Alpha Alpha 305." Computer: "Selbstzerstörung ist defekt.""
"Janeway: "Was halten Sie von einem Ausflug zum Romulus?" Picard: "Mit dem oder ohne den Rest der Flotte?""
"Regie: Robert Wise"
"Drehbuch: Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston"
"Erschienen: 1979"
"Nein, Logik und Wissen sind längst nicht alles."
"Kirk: "Es tut mir leid." Decker: "Nein, das tut es nicht. Nicht mal ein bisschen.""
"Kirk: "Pille, da draußen ist ein Ding." McCoy: "Wieso wird jedes Objekt, das wir nicht kennen, immer als Ding bezeichnet?" Kirk: "So ist es eben.""
"Regie: Nicholas Meyer"
"Drehbuch: Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn"
"Erschienen: 1991"
"Grundregel bei Attentaten: Tötet die Attentäter."
"Man muss erst einmal das Unmögliche abgrenzen. In dem, was dann noch da ist und sei's auch noch so unwahrscheinlich, muss die Wahrheit stecken."
"Ich nehme an, Sie kennen das russische Märchen vom Aschenputtel. Wenn der Schuh passt, zieht man ihn an."
"Kirk: "Was ist passiert?" Spock: "Wir haben auf das Schiff des Kanzlers gefeuert.""
"Drehbuch: Gene Roddenberry"
"Genre: Sci-Fi"
"Erschienen: 1966-1969"
"Riley: "Menschen haben nun einmal Adrenalindrüsen!" Spock: "Wenn das so ist, dann lassen Sie sie doch medizinisch entfernen!""
"Bailey: "Übrigens, dass ich vorhin so laut geschrien habe, bedeutet nicht, dass ich Angst hatte. Nur dass ich über ein menschliches Organ verfüge, das Adrenalin produziert." Spock: "Das ist aber äußerst unpraktisch. Ich würde an Ihrer Stelle die Drüse entfernen lassen.""
"Spock: "Die Kunst beim Schachspiel ist, sehen zu können, wenn man verloren hat." Kirk: "Nicht Schach, Spock... Poker! Kennen Sie dieses Spiel?""
"Pille: "Ich bin nur ein einfacher Landarzt." Spock: "Das habe ich schon immer befürchtet...""
"Drehbuch: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor"
"Erschienen: 1995-2001"
"Instinkt ist nur ein anderer Ausdruck für Zufallstreffer."
"In diesem Nebel gibt es Kaffee!"
"Ich habe Angst vor dem Tag, an dem alle meiner Meinung sind."
"'Unmöglich' ist ein Wort, das Menschen viel zu oft benutzen."
"Sie wollen mit mir kopulieren? Ziehen Sie Ihre Kleidung aus!"
"Regie: David Carson"
"Drehbuch: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga"
"Erschienen: 1994"
"Jemand hat mir mal gesagt, die Zeit würde uns wie ein Raubtier ein Leben lang verfolgen. Ich möchte viel lieber glauben, dass die Zeit unser Gefährte ist, der uns auf unserer Reise begleitet und uns daran erinnert, jeden Moment zu genießen, denn er wird nicht wiederkommen."
"Was wir hinterlassen, ist nicht so wichtig wie die Art, wie wir gelebt haben."
"Denn letztlich [...] sind wir alle nur sterblich."
"Die Zeit ist das Feuer, in dem wir verbrennen."
"Wie könnte ich dem Captain der Enterprise widersprechen?"
"Kirk: "Ich nehme an, die Chancen stehen schlecht und die Lage ist aussichtslos?" Picard: "So sieht's wohl aus." Kirk: "Das wird sicher ein Spaß!""
"Regie: Jonathan Frakes"
"Drehbuch: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore"
"Erschienen: 1996"
"Wir haben dieses Schiff nicht verloren und wir werden es nicht verlieren! Nicht an die Borg! Nicht unter meinem Kommando!"
"Sie dringen in unseren Raum ein und wir weichen zurück. Sie assimilieren ganze Welten und wir weichen zurück. Doch jetzt nicht. Hier wird der Schlussstrich gezogen. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Und ich, ich werde sie bezahlen lassen für ihre Taten!"
"Er sagte, er redet nicht mit mir, es sei denn, ich trinke mit ihm, also haben wir getrunken, irgendwas, es heißt Tequila. Nur so konnte ich herausfinden, dass er der ist, den wir suchen. Und seit zwanzig Minuten muss ich ihn davon überzeugen, die Finger von mir zu lassen. Und dann kommen Sie und kritisieren meine Untersuchungsmethoden."
"Lily Sloane: "Ich beneide Sie um die Welt, in die Sie fliegen." Picard: "Ich beneide Sie um diese ersten Schritte in eine neue Zeit.""
"Riker: "Wenn wir ihm die Wahrheit sagen, kann er damit umgehen?" Troi: "Wenn Sie meine fachliche Meinung als Schiffs-Counselor hören wollen, und das wollen Sie: Er ist verrückt." Riker: "Gut, ich werde das in mein Logbuch eintragen.""
"Drehbuch: Jack B. Sowards"
"Erschienen: 1982"
""Von allen Seelen, die mir begegnet sind auf meinen Reisen, war seine die menschlichste." (über Spock)"
"Sie sind mein Freund. Ich war und werde immer für Sie da sein."
"Er ist intelligent, aber nicht erfahren. Seine Struktur deutet auf zweidimensionales Denken hin."
"Vorher wollte ich Sie wissen lassen, wer es war, der Sie erledigt hat."
"Rache ist ein Gericht, das am besten kalt serviert wird."
"Regie: Leonard Nimoy"
"Drehbuch: Harve Bennett"
"Erschienen: 1984"
"Die Enterprise kommt mir vor wie ein Haus, das von allen Kindern verlassen worden ist... Nein, sogar noch leerer."
"Hätte ich es nicht getan, wäre der Preis meine Seele gewesen. [...] Weil das Wohl von Einzelnen genauso schwer wiegt wie das Wohl von Vielen."
"Ich war es immer und werde es immer sein – Ihr Freund."
"Vergib mir, T'lar. Ich bin mir meiner Logik nicht sicher, da es sich hier um meinen Sohn handelt."
"Sarek: "Sie haben ihm seine Zukunft geraubt." Kirk: "Ich sah keine Zukunft.""
"Drehbuch: Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer"
"Erschienen: 1986"
"Erfolg und Glück sind auf der Seite der Narren."
"Es gibt auch noch andere intelligente Wesen. Nur die menschliche Arroganz nimmt an, dass diese Botschaft an die Menschen gerichtet ist."
"Dialyse? Mein Gott, das ist ja finsterstes Mittelalter!"
"Die bürokratische Mentalität ist das Einzige, auf das man sich im Universum verlassen kann."
"Wo steht geschrieben, dass die Menschen logisch sind?"
"Drehbuch: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Michael Piller"
"Erschienen: 1993"
"Ein toter Mann kann aus seinen Fehlern nicht lernen."
"Gut, ich log und ich betrog. Ich habe Männer bestochen, damit sie die Verbrechen von anderen Männern decken. Ich leistete Beihilfe zum Mord. Aber das Verdammungswürdigste von allem ist, dass ich denke, dass ich damit leben kann, und wenn ich vor die Wahl gestellt würde, es wieder zu tun, ich würde es."
"Die Wahrheit ist normalerweise nur eine Entschuldigung für einen Mangel an Phantasie."
"Seit Generationen schon hat die Menschheit mehr als genug zu essen, und trotzdem sieht es so aus, als würden sie sich auf ihr Essen stürzen, vor lauter Angst, es kommt einer, der ihnen diesen Teller wegschnappt."
"Große Männer streben nicht nach Macht... Ihnen wird die Macht aufgezwungen."
"Drehbuch: Michael Piller"
"Erschienen: 1998"
"Kann sich jemand an die Zeiten erinnern, in denen wir noch Forscher waren?"
"Captain, die Sona-Crew möchte über eine Feuereinstellung verhandeln. Das mag damit zusammenhängen, dass sie nur noch für drei Minuten Sauerstoff haben."
"In sechs Stunden wird jedes Lebewesen in diesem System im Sterben liegen oder tot sein."
"Wir brauchten Jahrhunderte, um zu lernen, dass man keine Jahrhunderte braucht, um zu lernen."
"Wir haben herausgefunden, dass ein einziger Augenblick ein ganzes Universum sein kann."
"Drehbuch: Gene Roddenberry et al."
"Erschienen: 1987"
"Ich lüge nie, wenn ich Sand in den Stiefeln habe."
"Der Weg von einem legitimen Verdacht zu blindem Verfolgungswahn ist weitaus kürzer, als wir denken."
"Mit dem ersten Glied ist die Kette geschmiedet. Wenn die erste Rede zensiert, der erste Gedanke verboten, die erste Freiheit verweigert wird, dann sind wir alle unwiderruflich gefesselt."
"Lassen Sie uns wenigstens ein paar Steine bereitlegen, mit denen wir werfen können, wenn es zum Kampf kommt."
"Sie sorgen sich um Commander Rikers Karriere, lauschen Counselor Trois pedantischem Psychogebabbel, ermutigen Data bei seinem einfältigen Wunsch, die Menschheit zu entdecken."
"Regie: William Shatner"
"Drehbuch: David Loughery"
"Erschienen: 1989"
"Ich brauche meinen Schmerz, um zu wissen, wer ich bin."
""Steht nicht da wie die Salzsäulen"
"Wozu braucht Gott ein Raumschiff?"
"Ich mochte ihn lieber, bevor er tot war."
"McCoy: "Eins muss ich sagen, Spock: Sie erstaunen mich immer wieder." Spock: "Ich mich auch, Doktor.""
"Regie: J. J. Abrams"
"Drehbuch: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci"
"Erschienen: 2009"
"Ich würde die Vorschriften zitieren, aber ich weiß, Sie werden das einfach ignorieren."
"Spock: "Da Sie noch keinen 1. Offizier ernannt haben, möchte ich hiermit dafür meine Bewerbung einreichen. Falls gewünscht könnte ich auch Zeugnisse über meinen Charakter vorlegen." Kirk: "Es wäre mir eine Ehre, Commander.""
"Drehbuch: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof"
"Erschienen: 2013"
"Ich werde Ihnen erklären, wie die Sache sich verhält. Sie sind ein Krimineller. Ich habe gesehen, wie sie unschuldige Menschen ermordet haben; ich wurde autorisiert, Sie auszuschalten. Und der einzige Grund, warum Sie noch unter uns weilen ist, weil ich es Ihnen gestatte, also... halten Sie den Mund!"
"Geben Sie mir einen Grund, warum ich auf Sie hören sollte."
"Jim, niemand zieht einen Banküberfall durch, wenn das Fluchtfahrzeug einen Platten hat."
"Pike: "Wissen Sie, was für eine Nervensäge Sie sind?" Kirk: "Ja, ich denke schon.""
"Spock: "Unser Schiff hat keinerlei Waffen!" Kirk: "Dafür hat es uns.""
"Star Trek: The Original Series"
"Star Trek: The Animated Series"
"Star Trek: The Next Generation"
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
"Star Trek: Voyager"
"Star Trek: Enterprise"
"Star Trek: Discovery"
"Star Trek: Short Treks"
"Star Trek: Picard"
"Star Trek: Lower Decks"
"Star Trek: Prodigy"
"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds"
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
"Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"
"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"
"Star Trek Generations"
"Star Trek: First Contact"
"Star Trek: Insurrection"
"Star Trek Nemesis"
"Star Trek Into Darkness"
"Star Trek Beyond"
"Star Trek Continues"
"Star Trek: New Voyages"
"Star Trek: Borg"
"Star Trek: Klingon Academy"
"I'm always amused when Ted Cruz says that ‘Star Trek’ is his favorite television show. Because I don't think there is any world where Star Trek is anything but a progressive, liberal vision of the future — in which big government is a good thing, and we can all get along. It's a utopian ethos that is a result of one world government, and not exceptionalism of any particular country."
"One reason why Star Trek has endured from one generation to the next is that most of the stories themselves are indeed moral fables. Though the episodes are obviously self-contained, when taken as a whole they constitute a harmonious philosophy filled with hope. While our Star Trek heroes are far from perfect, they are nonetheless essentially decent beings whose interaction with "new life and new civilizations" is always guided by nobility and morality."
"Burton has said that he got a call to audition for The Next Generation in 1986 because producer Bob Justman remembered how much Burton had loved the original Star Trek; the two had previously worked together and Burton had often talked about the series. Justman convinced Burton to consider The Next Generation by noting the involvement of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the new spinoff series. (Wesley Snipes) also auditioned for the role of Geordi and later hailed Burton as “a greater actor” when Burton got the part instead.) “Gene Roddenberry’s vision was one that really meant a lot to me,” Burton later told NPR. “It said when the future comes, there’s a place for you. Seeing Nichelle Nichols [the Black actress who played Uhura in the original series] on the bridge of that ship meant that when the future got here, there was a place for people who looked like me.”"
"As it turns out, it is possible to name a movie or two, in which the captain or supervisor or organization aren't a blithering idiots. The Fugitive, The Silence of the Lambs, and Apollo 13 all show institutions and public officials functioning well. Incidentally, they were all big hits. One of the core differences between Star Wars and Star Trek lies in how those two franchises treat the question of civilization. In the cosmos of George Lucas, not a single institution is shown functioning or doing its job. Once. At all. Ever. In contrast, Trek always loved to chew on questions like when and how the social compact might work, or fail, or need adjustment, or call for flexibility, or be handled differently by alien minds. Civilization — along with its laws and codes and contradictions — is often a major character in each show. A participant, subject to scrutiny, skepticism, but also sometimes praise. But of course, Star Trek always was an exception to every rule."
"I would have loved to have done a Star Trek crossover. The very first year, we talked about it. Then Star Trek finally went off air. Landing the Tardis on board the Enterprise would have been magnificent. Can you imagine what their script department would have wanted, and what I would have wanted? It would have been the biggest battle."
"The franchise garners the kind of obsession that's endearingly embarrassing: flashing the Vulcan hand salute, having intimate knowledge of Klingon chess, making detailed costumes for conventions. “Trekkie” has become cultural shorthand for a very specific kind of fixation. It suggests, with a patronizing wink, that wanting to be part of the world of “Star Trek” requires a mix of social isolation and naiveté. Instead I think it requires hope, or a profound lack of it."
"According to “Star Trek,” everything we're worried about right now will be OK. There will be other things that go wrong — a species intent on taking over the universe, arguments between factions of aliens — but these concerns are foreign enough that they're intriguing rather than scary. The show depicts its fair share of pain and suffering, but usually it's the aliens who suffer in any permanent way; when humans do, it's an aberration from the new normal that's been created. By the time the Enterprise is exploring new worlds, we've eliminated climate change, war, disease, xenophobia and sexism. On Earth, everything is as it should be. In the rest of the universe, though, these things still exist, and nearly every conflict on the series involves starship crews becoming entangled with random and calculated unfairness, cruelty and moral complication. We get Klingon in-fighting, alien merchants selling slaves, a civilization about to be decimated by its dying star. “Star Trek: The Next Generation” is especially prone to depicting easily-recognizable versions of real quandaries. The characters encounter everything from sex trafficking to territorial disputes on distant planets, and they're forced to confront moral codes that exaggerate the ironies and falsehoods of our own beliefs. Familiar dramas play out: Apartheid is displaced onto a matriarchal society in “Angel One,” and the Israel-Palestine conflict plays out with a group of alien separatists in “The High Ground.” Here lies the ethical problem with “Star Trek,” and also the thing that is so deliciously attractive about it: Every earthly dilemma has been outsourced to an alien species, and we get to be the arbiters of goodness, the agents of scientific reason. Who wouldn't want to buy into this vision of the future?"
"Star Trek often has starships facing each other at close range, making everyone think, “That Admiral Nelson was really on to something with those sailing ships and broadside cannon battles!” While Star Trek is the archetype, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars also feature ships facing off like the British against the French at Trafalgar. After travelling billions of miles and using entire solar systems as their battlegrounds, they fight to the death at ranges of a few feet."
"Captains Kirk and Picard on Star Trek are one-man SEAL teams fighting the enemy whenever they decide to take a break from their real jobs commanding starships, even though they have crews of literally several hundred other people better suited to fighting than the ship's captain."
"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."
"Because creator Gene Roddenberry believed in showing the essential humanity of all sentient species regardless of their planet of origin, extraterrestrial nonhumans also let us look at real psychological processes. While Star Trek explores many aspects of human nature, key issues keep reappearing, particularly those of importance to understanding and resolving conflicts between diverse peoples. Even the ongoing struggle between logic and emotion usually manifests as a cultural issue."
"Each Star Trek series' cast includes a main character who seeks to understand human emotion: Spock the Vulcan-human hybrid (Star Trek, known to fans as The Original Series - TOS); Data the android (Star Trek: The Next Generation - TNG); Odo the shapeshifter (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - DS9); Tuvok the Vulcan and the Voyager's holographic Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager - VGR); and yet another Vulcan, T'Pol, a female for once (Star Trek: Enterprise - ENT). While the Vulcans suppress strong emotions beneath the veneer of logic, emotionless Data seeks to become more human and Odo, capable of mimicking human beings, dispassionately observes human nature with curiosity, rarely envy."
"Star Trek is an optimistic franchise, full of hope for the human race collectively and as individuals. Gene Roddenberry envisioned many struggles ahead of us and many advancements for the whole of humankind. He expected great things for the human condition. Positive psychology can make great use of Roddenberry's creations."
"Moore: Star Trek has very, very strong bones. The original concept was just very strong and, at the same time, flexible. You could play a lot of different kinds of stories in the idea of a starship boldly going, arriving in a new society, a completely alien world. You could play with a whole series of sets of problems and adventures with a starship crew and this society and then leave at the end of the episode and go do it again next week. There's just a huge canvas of stories you can tell. You can just keep riffing on that. It wasn't such a challenge to reinvent it. Even J.J.’s work… there just had been so much Star Trek by that point that it kind of needed to wipe the slate clean and start over. It wasn’t that Trek lacked imagination; it was just that the franchise had been burdened down by its own continuity."
"Interviewer: Frank Hunt asks: What were the most important lessons you took away (as a writer and producer) from your time working on Star Trek?"
"Ultimately, it’s the franchise’s ethical principles, progressive acceptance, and strong sense of justice embedded within each episode that autistic people find themselves relating to. Sara Luterman, an autistic journalist, previously wrote “[Spock] exists in an environment where everyone around him accepts his alternate perspective and never treats it as burdensome or a deviation from the ‘correct’ one.” Another autistic fan, Leena Haque, told me she loved that Star Trek “always promoted the importance of equality.” With crew members believed to be autistic and getting along in a world with fairness and justice, it was easy for some autistic fans to feel that was a world they could live in and feel like part of our real world communities, too. Even while not being a superfan, Star Trek always makes me feel as though I could live in an accepting world that so many of my friends and fellow autistics observed throughout the galaxy and dream of here on Earth."
"Season 2 of the prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will deliver ten more episodic "classic" franchise stories about discovery, optimism and politics. Even for all its accolades, it couldn't avoid the "woke" label from critics angry at the new wave of Star Trek stories. While the definition of the term is as nebulous as the Delphic Expanse, its intention is easy to discern. Any show or movie with a diverse cast focused on stories of empowerment, compassion or inclusion is sure to be hit with the label. When it comes to Star Trek, however, this criticism doesn't make sense as creator Gene Roddenberry designed the series to advance his progressive political ideology about a diverse and equitable future. Star Trek: The Original Series featured the most diverse cast of principal characters at the time. It may have held that title well into the 1990s. This is because of Roddenberry's motto for the future he created: infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Even the tiny details about his future are radical political statements. Earth no longer uses money, and the driving force of society isn't about material gain. There are no longer countries, but rather a single Earth government. Gene Roddenberry was the original globalist, even though not everything in Star Trek held up. In fact, each Star Trek series has been representative of the uncorrected biases of their time. However, what makes Star Trek so progressive is that the franchise evolves to try and be better."
"Star Trek often makes use of present-day events for its own history. A Season 2 episode of The Original Series called "A Private Little War" is a very unsubtle allegory about Vietnam being a destructive, losing gambit before the release of the Pentagon Papers. The Season 3 episode "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield," is an equally unsubtle examination of racism and its destructive nature less than a year after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. Similarly, in its series premiere, Strange New Worlds used footage from the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was shown to a warring alien race as part of a presentation on how Earth fell into World War III."
"Star Trek as a franchise has lasted until today, but its message of hope and prosperity has found increasing difficulty resonating with contemporary audiences."
"When I was a kid, my dad and I never missed an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was fascinated by the adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise's diverse, weird, and wondrous crew of future beings seeking, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard explained in the opening credits, "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." Cue the horns. I was inspired by Star Trek's noble mission. (And I may have had a baby crush on actor Wil Wheaton.) More than that, however, Star Trek was a show that both I, in my budding queerness, and my father could enjoy together. No matter our differences, we bonded for one hour each weekend over our shared love of space adventures. This ability to swoop in viewers from different generations and persuasions is no accident. For over 55 years, Star Trek -- thanks to the vision of creator Gene Roddenberry -- advocated for big-tent inclusion. In doing so, it took historically marginalized people and made them heroes of their own stories. Star Trek: The Original Series not only broke ground when it aired the interracial kiss between Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), it also signaled to viewers that in the future -- and in the present – love is limitless."
"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. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there."
"Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things."
"Believability is everything, is it the most essential element of any Star Trek story."
"While the Enterprises mission is ostensibly "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before," its function is really more akin to that naval vessels in the early age of mercantilism. In describing the similarities, series creator Gene Roddenberry noted: "In those days ships of the major powers were assigned to patrol specific areas of the world's oceans. They represented their governments in those areas and protected the national interests of their respective countries. Our of contact with the admiralty office back home for long periods of time, the captains of these ships had very broad discretionary powers. These included regulating trade, fighting bush wars, putting down slave traders, lending aid to scientific expeditions conducting exploration on a broad scale, [and] engaging in diplomatic exchanges and affairs...."
"“It’s made clear and emphasized several times in the course of the show that the Federation does not have money,” Saadia says in Episode 205 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “You have Captain Picard saying, ‘We’ve overcome hunger and greed, and we’re no longer interested in the accumulation of things.'”"
"“What really makes sense in the Star Trek universe and Star Trek society is to compete for reputation,” he says. “What is not abundant in Star Trek’s universe is the captain’s chair.”"
"I love the Ferengi because they are sort of a 1990s or 2000s American acquisitive businessman. ... The Ferengi are really ignoble, really awful people, and they're really funny as a result. But they do change over time. When you watch the whole arc of the Ferengi in Deep Space Nine, the Ferengi, just by contact with the Federation, become more like the Federation, they become Keynesian social democrats, by the end. Suddenly you have the right to have unions and strikes, and there's health care for everybody. ... I always thought that this story of the Ferengi becoming more humanitarian just by contact with the Federation was a metaphor for all of us becoming better by watching Star Trek."
"The Borg are such great villains because they're so similar to the Federation, when you think about it. The Borg have perfect allocation of goods, and supply and demand, and everybody is connected to everybody in the beehive, and they just seem to be extremely efficient. They're also the other society in Star Trek that could be characterized as ‘post-scarcity.’ Any Borg drone never wants or needs anything, it's always provided by the Collective. So it is the mirror image—and the dangerous image, almost—of what a society that is both redistributive and satiated could look like. It's almost as if the writers tried to incorporate the criticism of the society they propose."
"In Star Trek the post-scarcity economy of the United Federation of Planets did not use money."
"The truth is that, in certain ways, Thiel’s philosophy of tech aligns well with “Star Trek.” In the Trekiverse, technological progress is inseparable from society and politics. As even quasi-fans will recall, the TV shows and films feature a machine called the replicator, which can produce any inanimate matter on demand—food, drink, warp-drive parts. (In his interview with Dowd, Thiel calls this device the “transporter,” in what can only be a swipe at nerds. Surely he knows better.) The replicator solves, albeit fictionally, what John Maynard Keynes once called “the economic question”—that is, the imbalance between supply and demand, and the resulting need for markets and price mechanisms to allocate scarce resources. The society of “Star Trek” has decided not to exact a fee for the use of the machine. Thus the replicator can be an engine both for the equal distribution of wealth and for personal enrichment. It does not bring about social change on its own. The post-scarcity world in “Star Trek” is the result of a political decision, not of pure technological progress. What is anathema to Thiel in “Star Trek” is the notion, drawn from Isaac Asimov’s fiction, that the market is but a temporary solution to imbalances in supply and demand, and that technology and plenty will eventually make it obsolete. “Star Trek” replicators are nothing but Asimov's robots disguised as coffee machines, let loose on the world as a public good. They dissolve the need for a pricing mechanism. They represent the logical endpoint of the Industrial Revolution, when all human labor has been offloaded onto machines. “Star Trek” and Asimov remind us that the market and all the behaviors associated with it are temporary and historically contingent. If that is so, then what Thiel thinks of human nature and motivations—that people are competitive, acquisitive, greedy—is temporary and contingent, too."
"“Star Trek” points to a future in which human civilization is advanced enough to provide everyone with the basic necessities of life. It also shows us the ways in which we have already achieved that society, even if we have not decided to make it available to all."
"The destiny of Google's search engine is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building."
"'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different — the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian. 'Star Trek' is about acceptance and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms."
"Well, you know, Star Trek and the Starship Enterprise was supposed to be a metaphor for Starship Earth. It was supposed to be an idealized representation of what our society should be. In our society, we have a lot of minorities. Asians, African-Americans, women getting on the upward mobility escalator. They're making progress going up, whether it's in the professional world or the business world, or in other various careers. But the problem seems to be that think called the glass ceiling. They make it up to a certain point and then it stops. I kept lobbying to the powers that be at Paramount saying to them, "if Starfleet is to represent that ideal, you just can't keep giving us advances in rank." By that time I was a Commander. The movie before that I was a Lieutenant Commander, but I was still there at the helm punching those same buttons. I said to them, "it's very important that if we are supposed to be that kind of bright, eminently capable people...professionals....we have to get that advancement. We have to be able to show that this idealized society truly works. It's very important than, that we see one of the characters moving up and becoming a captain. Of course, my character being Sulu, I lobbied most vigorously for him. Finally after 25 long years of lobbying, we were able to reach that idealized representation of Starfleet. The glass ceiling doesn't exist with Starfleet. He was a captain then."
"...there's really two things that we can say about that Trekonomics, that economics of Star Trek. The first being that you can't, on logical grounds, actually have an economics in such a world. And the second being that you can, but it will be the sort that Karl Marx was talking about. For the basic premise of the Star Trek universe is that we've conquered scarcity. And as Marx was most insistent about pointing out, communism couldn't arrive until the absence of scarcity."
"There is also the problem of the dignity of work -- people enjoy feeling needed. But human values change over time, and there seems no obvious reason why people couldn't get their self-worth from artistic self-expression, or from hobbies. This is the basic Star Trek future. But actually, I think that the future has a far more radical transformation in store for us. I predict that technological advances will actually end economics as we know it, and destroy scarcity, by changing the nature of human desire. So, there's that one sense that we can't have an economics of such an environment. For economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. But if resources aren't scarce then how can we study the allocation of something that doesn't exist? Of course, you might think that most economists are only discussing angels on pinheads anyway. And if we're honest about it all economists would insist that at least one current major theory is nothing more than that. But in the entire absence of scarce resources, economics would be even more like that. Akin to asking whether those angels could waltz or jitterbug upon their pinhead. However, we do have another guide to what would be happening at this point, in the absence of scarcity. And that's the Bearded One himself, Karl Marx. And the answer is True Communism. Or at least, the way would then be open for True Communism to finally arrive."
"Skinny Pete: What do you think all those sparkles and shit are? Transporters are breaking you apart right down to your molecules and bones. They're makin' a copy. That dude who comes out on the other side? He's not you. He's a color Xerox."
"Make it so."
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
"Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too."
"It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence."
"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."
"Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."
"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."
"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"
"Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you, just in the way you wanted. An equal. Let Data go and I will take my place at your side, willingly without any resistance."
"Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home, Locutus. Data, you are free to go."
"Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, lay in a course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for us."
"Lieutenant Commander Data: Course laid in, sir."
"Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so."
"How many people does it take, admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people DOES IT TAKE, admiral?'"
"Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait."
"If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united."
"[voiceover] Captain's Personal Log. The crew has responded with the dedication I've come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."
"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be."
"Never, never! You still have a choice. Make the right one now."
"I came here to finde safety. But one is never safe from the past."
"The past is written, but we are left to write the future."
"Let's see what this galaxy class starship can do."
"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."
"Let's see what's out there. Engage."
"Sometimes, Riker, the best way to win a fight is not to be there."
"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."
":[Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Bok! Where is Bok?!"
":William Riker: Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it."
":Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. Enterprise, lock on. Beam me home, Riker."
"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. „What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!“"
"Things are only impossible until they're not!"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself."
":Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think."
"The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous."
"You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you."
"The challenge, Mister Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it."
"Our mission is to go forward, and it's just begun. […] There's still much to do. There's still so much to learn."
":[An alien is impersonating Data.]"
":Alien (as Data): What is death?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, is that all. Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness with all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely a delusion."
":Alien (as Data): Which do you believe sir?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond euclidean or other 'practical' measuring systems... and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality."
"He is different, yes. But that does not make him expendable, or any less significant. No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another."
"Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time."
"Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him to servitude and slavery?"
"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits! Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well, here it is. Make a good one."
"Wesley: It's the Yamato, Captain. I can't stop thinking about her. All those people dead. I don't know how you and Commander Riker and Geordi, how you handle it so easily."
"Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance."
"These officers are here to assist you. Not judge, help you. You should make use of them. They are a valuable resource. And by the way, I respect an officer who is prepared to admit ignorance and ask a question, rather than one who out of pride will blunder blindly forward."
"There is a loneliness inherent in that whisper from the darkness."
"Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship."
":Q: What justifies that smugness?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Not smugness, not arrogance. But we are resolute, we are determined, and your help is not required."
"Well, perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency, to prepare us ready for what lies ahead."
"I'm pleased to report that Ensign Crusher's Starfleet exam results permit him to continue his studies on board the Enterprise. Furthermore, any rumours of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated."
"Sometimes, Number One, you just have to bow to the absurd."
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
":Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise."
":Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander."
":Data: Indeed?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader."
":William Riker: You enjoyed that."
":Jean-Luc Picard: You're damned right."
"Brinksmanship is a dangerous game."
"We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime."
"We leave behind a being of extraordinary power and conscience. I am not certain if he should be praised or condemned. Only that he should be left alone."
":Tomalak: I urge you, Captain Picard, surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause."
":Jean-Luc Picard: If the cause is just and honourable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalak?"
"'A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor."
"History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism."
":Lt Cmdr. Data: But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful? I've been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change."
":Capt. Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun."
"Being first at any cost is not always the point."
"Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise."
"There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain."
"You may test that assumption at your convenience."
"Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it."
"Picard: It's something of a tradition, Guinan - Captain touring the ship before a battle."
"The Borg: Captain Jean-Luc Picard. You lead the strongest ship of the Federation Starfleet. You speak for your people."
"I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us."
"The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless... Number One."
"Jean-Luc Picard: They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should..."
"Captain Benjamin Maxwell: You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you and say this man was a fool."
"I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way."
"Trust requires time and experience."
"I am deeply concerned by what is happening here. It began when we apprehended a spy, a man who admitted his guilt and who will answer for his crime. But the hunt didn't end there. Another man, Mister Simon Tarses, was brought to trial and it was a trial, no matter what others choose to call it. A trial based on insinuation and innuendo. Nothing substantive offered against Mister Tarses, much less proven. Mister Tarses' grandfather is Romulan, and for that reason his career now stands in ruins. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy? Admiral, let us not condemn Simon Tarses, or anyone else, because of their bloodlines, or investigate others for their innocent associations."
"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."
"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think."
"Jean-Luc Picard: We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again."
"I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know."
"In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure."
"You hoped this would happen, didn't you? You knew there was a dangerous creature on this planet and you knew from the tale of Darmok that a danger shared might sometimes bring two people together. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. You and me, here, at El-Adrel."
":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, the Homeric Hymns. One of the root metaphors of our own culture."
":William Riker: For the next time we encounter the Tamarians?"
":Jean-Luc Picard: More familiarity with our own mythology might help us to relate to theirs. The Tamarian was willing to risk all of us just for the hope of communication, connection. Now the door is open between our peoples. That commitment meant more to him than his own life."
"We know from our own experience that our shields will protect us. So long as we're in no danger, I will make every effort to communicate."
"Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or on Risa? A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet."
"They've given away their humanity with this genetic manipulation. Many of the qualities that they breed out, the uncertainty, the self-discovery, the unknown, those are many of the qualities that make life worth living. Well, at least to me. I wouldn't want to live knowing that my future was written, that my boundaries had been already set, would you?"
"And that's human. We make mistakes. Genetic manipulation or not, nobody's perfect."
"You told the truth up to a point. But a lie of omission is still a lie."
"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"
"Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
"You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think it is connected to some higher purpose."
"There are four lights!"
"No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!"
"I would rather die as the man I was than live the life I just saw."
"There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life."
"There was no opportunity. There was no pause. (mock Teutonic) He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt. It was really quite hypnotic."
"There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Captain Picard: The Role Model We Need" (16.06.2021) by user "Ryan's Edits"."
"I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone. A lot of things can happen in 25 years."
"We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!"
"Now, this will put the ship at risk. Quite frankly, we may not survive. But I want you to believe that I am doing this for a greater purpose, and that what is at stake here is more than any of you can possibly imagine. I know you have your doubts about me, about each other, about this ship. All I can say is that although we have only been together for a short time, I know that you are the finest crew in the fleet. And I would trust each of you with my life. So, I am asking you for a leap of faith — and to trust me."
"So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit."
"Sitting here, all these years, nursing my offended dignity, writing books of history people prefer to forget. I never asked anything of myself at all. [...] I haven’t been living. I’ve been waiting to die."
"I'm not in the habit of consulting lawyers before I do what needs to be done."
"But murder is not justice. There is no solace in revenge. You have had your humanity restored to you. Don't squander it now."
"Changed? The Borg? They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems, in a matter of hours. They don't change! They metastasize."
"You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed."
"The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools, Rios: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy, and fear, and fear is the great destroyer, Rios."
"Data's capacity for expressing and processing emotion was limited. I suppose we had that in common."
"There's a difference between killing an attacking enemy and watching a wounded one die."
"One more thing. Uh, I have a brain abnormality. I've known for years. Uh, I never had any symptoms, so I never thought much about it. However, just before we left the Earth, I learned that my condition was more acute. The prognosis was terminal, and there is no effective treatment. There will be no further discussion. Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off."
"Well, hope and the odds make poor bedfellows."
"To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination."
"If we wanted to destroy you, Soji, we would've joined forces with the Romulans. We would be training our phasers on you right now. We aren't. We won't! You know why? Because we trust you to make the right choice. I trust you, Soji. I know you. I believe in you. That's why I saved your lives. So that you could save ours in return. That's the whole point. That's why we're here. To save each other."
"It says a great deal about the mind of Commander Data that, looking at the human race with all its violence and corruption, willful ignorance, he could still see kindness, the immense curiosity, and greatness of spirit. And he wanted, more than anything else, to be part of that, to be part of the human family. We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
"Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow."
"We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done, what could have been. Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. And as steps forward go I would like to acknowledge your classmate the first fully Romulan cadet at Starfleet Academy: Elnor. May you all go boldly into a future freed from the shackles of the past. I stand before you the last Picard. My ancestor captained the second ship, behind Jacques Cartier. A great-great cousin Renee Picard was instrumental in early exploration of this solar system. Yet I choose to leave you with the words of my mother, who was no explorer at all. When I was a boy she would point to the night sky and say, "Look up, Jean-Luc, and let's see what's out there"."
"We cannot live in this reality. If we want to save the future, then we have to repair the past."
"Distance offers no protection from time."
"History’s darkest moments can be a tipping point for change."
"Guinan! Don't leave the Earth just yet. I know you're done with listening, but you're not done with humanity. Change always comes later than we think it should."
"Or the promise of legacy revealed the rot that is hidden underneath it."
"There are moments in time we wish we could travel back to. Memories. Pieces of life better lived in reverse. In those moments, tragic endings might rewind into joyful beginnings. Moments of loss into those of gains. I remember now, in a cloudy moment of extreme melancholy, my mother hung herself here in this place. And for all I've lived, all I've seen and done, I suppose this is the moment I've kept myself from remembering, this moment I am so powerless to reverse. My mother was ill, I'm told, but I only ever thought she was inspired. That night, my father had locked her into her room for her own safety. Perhaps for mine, as well. But she begged me to help her, told me how much she needed me, how much she needed my help. And this is the part I've spent my whole life trying not to remember. I thought I was saving her. So, after he fell asleep, I let her out, you see. If only I had left that door closed, she might have become an old woman. I used to imagine seeing her older, offering me a cup of tea and asking for a chat. This skeleton key migrated all over the house. I wish, that day, it hadn't ended up in my hand. I loved her. Desperately."
"I refuse to accept an outcome that has not yet occurred. Come. We have work to do."
"Make a good future."
"There are moments in our lives we fear to relive and others we long to repeat. While time cannot give us second chances, maybe people can."
"Y’know, there will be a time when you will need to remember that no matter how bleak or unwinnable a situation, as long as you and your crew remain steadfast in your dedication, one to another, you are never ever without hope."
"I think we all need connection. Don't we?"
"[to Beverly Crusher] Look, I know that time is precious, but do you think you could give me a moment or two with Jack?"
"You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone."
"Fate has a way of surprising us."
"You don't leave the doors open if you want to keep the wolves out."
"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures."
"Jean-Luc Picard taught me how to speak. I’m pretty sure that I already knew how to say words by the time that I was watching ‘’Star Trek: The Next Generation’’ with my parents, but Patrick Stewart’s captain is how I remember learning that words and communication are noble and important. That you can be strong without imposing yourself physically on others. That making an effort to unite yourself with other people is powerful as well as merely desirable."
"Captain Picard, is the exact opposite of a Hollywood action-hero."
"Jean-Luc Picard! Chief contact with the Q Continuum. Arbiter of succession for the Klingon Empire. Savior of Earth from Borg invasion. Captain of the Enterprises D and E. The man even worked alongside the great Spock."
"Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more then James Kirk—and I’m not gonna get into the Kirk vs Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain—but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek’s vision for the future."
":K'mpec: After I die, you will act in my name to arbitrate the struggle for power."
":Jean-Luc Picard: I will?"
":K'mpec: No one on the Council can be trusted, and I have my reasons for wanting an outsider."
":Jean-Luc Picard: K'mpec, you cannot possibly be serious. A Federation officer has no business in ..."
":K'mpec: Nonsense. You are an accomplished mediator. This is no different than any other dispute requiring your services."
"Picard stands as the bearer of Starfleet's conscience and an exemplar of moral autonomy."
"Captain Picard is perceived to be a gentler soul than Captain Kirk."
"When I was in middle school and watching “Star Trek” I imagined we were moving closer toward the show’s version of the future: egalitarian, democratic, creative. Now when I watch the show, I vacillate between hope and escapism. I want to believe that “Star Trek” is predictive of how things will turn out for humanity. I want us to wander the universe in brightly colored uniforms, listening to operas sung by sentient robots. I hope we will find our way to peace. But if that’s not what the future holds, if it’s more war and injustice and greed that we’re headed for, then all I want is to watch Captain Picard hold court on the bridge one more time."
"Seven of Nine: The USS Voyager. She made her name farther out than... any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now..."
"Seven of Nine: Oh, you are definitely your father's son. He, too, has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen."
"The new captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, is the wise man. He rules the Enterprise with a sagely wisdom."
"As shown in his speech and actions, Picard is a man of intelligence, courage, integrity, compassion, courtesy."
"Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career."
":Jean-Luc Picard: [waking up after the operation] What the hell are *you* doing here?"
":Kate Pulaski: Saving your life."
":Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace."
":Kate Pulaski: True. But you are not a commonplace man."
"Those ... who are familiar with the character Captain Picard, already know him to be the leader that we all wish we worked for, whose leadership gives us confidence and comfort in meeting the challenges we face each and every day, and the type of leader that we should strive to become."
"Picard and his crew were all human carbon copies of Spock—even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. (Spock himself says so of Picard in “Unification,” the one “Next Generation” episode in which he appears.) That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly understand his moral universe. He was nothing like us twenty-first-century humans. He was too alien."
":William T. Riker: Wes, responsibility and authority go hand in hand. I know you're responsible, now we've got to teach you a little bit of authority. One of the reasons you've been given command is so you can make a few right decisions, that will establish a pattern of success and help build self-confidence. If you don't trust your own judgment, you don't belong in the command chair."
":Wesley Crusher: But what if I'm wrong?"
":William T. Riker: Then you're wrong. It's arrogant to think you'll never make a mistake."
":Wesley Crusher: But what if it's something really important. I mean, not just a mineral survey. What if someone dies because I made a mistake?"
":William T. Riker: In your position, it's important to ask yourself one question. What would Picard do?"
":Wesley Crusher: He'd listen to everyone's opinion, then make his own decision. But he's Captain Picard."
"He intrigues me, this Picard. Remarkably analytical and dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There's almost a Vulcan quality to the man."
"The bridge of the Enterprise, under the moderate and controlled command of Captain Picard, is a locus of "enlightened understanding.""
"The new captain, Jean-Luc Picard, was French and enjoyed reading, classical music, William Shakespeare, archaeology, and theatre."
"Captain Picard is not the swashbuckler that Captain Kirk was."
"Only question I Ever thought was hard Was do I like Kirk, Or do I like Picard?"
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
"Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."
"Only a fool fights in a burning house."
"A fool and his head are soon parted."
"The wind does not respect a fool."
"Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat."
"A leader is judged not by the length of his reign but by the decisions he makes."
"Great men do not seek power; it is thrust upon them."
"If you cannot control yourself, you cannot command others"
"Death is an experience best shared."
"Pity the warrior who slays all his foes."
"A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye."
"Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight."
"Yet if my line should die, It dies with its teeth in the enemy's throat, It dies with its name on the enemy's tongue. For just as mere life is not victory, Mere death is not defeat; And in the next world I shall kill the foe a thousand times, Laughing, Undefeated."
"Perhaps today is a good day to die."
"If winning is not important, why keep score?"
"Own the day."
"Negotiation may cost far less than war, or infinitely more: for war cannot cost more than one's life."
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die."
"Live long and prosper."
"Nothing that is is unimportant."
"Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you."
"Infinite diversity in infinite combination."
"Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts..."
"Only Nixon can go to China."
"May your journey be free of incident."
"In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace."
"Nothing unreal exists."
"Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide."
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
"We are here to serve."
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."
"A Vulcan never bluffs."
"One man can summon the future."
"One man cannot summon the future."
"Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")"
"Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it."
"Beam me up, Scotty. - James T. Kirk"
"Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor not a... - Leonard McCoy"
"You're dead, Jim. - Leonard McCoy"
"She can't take much more of this, Captain. - Montgomery Scott"
"Millions of people who have never died before will be killed. - Spock"
"The original Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, was, with a few exceptions, bad in every way that a science fiction television show could be bad. Nimoy was the only charismatic actor in the cast and, ironically, he played the only character not allowed to register emotion. This was in the days before series characters were allowed to grow and change, before episodic television was allowed to have a through line. So it didn’t matter which episode you might be watching, from which year — the characters were exactly the same. As science fiction, the series was trapped in the 1930s — a throwback to spaceship adventure stories with little regard for science or deeper ideas. It was sci-fi as seen by Hollywood: all spectacle, no substance."
"One of the truths I've been telling lately is that Kirk and Spock are not lovers... they're not even boyfriends. They're just good friends. This has offended a whole subculture that is convinced they are... I was at a convention in Milwaukee a few weeks ago. This lady comes up to me with this stuff, and after a thirty minute discussion, I finally said, 'Stop! We're arguing over whether or not two fictitious characters are getting their hands in each others' pants.'"
"There was a sense of fun in the original series, and I think we wanted to try and create three characters as distinctive as Kirk-Spock-McCoy with Kai-Stan-Xev (plus a robot head). I watched the show quite a bit when I was younger, and enjoyed some of its campier moments, i.e. "The Squire of Gothos". I also liked the one with the weird head in the sky that turned out to be Clint Howard."
"Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house. 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!'"
"The original Trek was never consistent; to modern eyes, its frequently ham-fisted writing, sexism, sluggish pacing, and lack of continuity between episodes can take some adjustments to accept. But at the show's peak, those flaws could never obscure the raw energy that drove the adventures of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise, nor the way that energy so often coalesced behind a fundamentally optimistic view of the universe."
"Again and again on the series, we see that communication is the solution to problems, and that understanding your enemy (if they even are an enemy) is the only way to resolve a dangerous situation. It's a concept that seems to belie every piece of Cold War doctrine foisted on the American public. The Red Menace was a danger so insidious, so malignant, that even trying to understand its beliefs and systems meant a form of surrender. This wasn't just a physical force, but a kind of philosophical brain snatcher whose tendrils, if left unchecked, would lay waste to the free world. That kind of paranoid faith in the untouchable—the assumption that some beliefs must be walled away in silence and fear—was something that Star Trek stood against in stark opposition."
"The show, released in the decade of the Vietnam War, American Civil Rights protests, the second wave of the feminist movement and the threat of nuclear war, dared to imagine what peace might look like."
"In Roddenberry's 23rd-century universe, mankind had conquered conflict and catapulted into space as a unified species – men, women, Chinese, Russians, Africans. And it seemed to work. Women weren't intergalactic secretaries, they were full officers. Communications officer Uhura, a woman and black, is fourth in command of the Enterprise."
"In a world preoccupied by the Space Race and the Cold War, the Enterprise looked into the future and saw the Russians as allies, not bushy-browed villains. Young ensign Pavel Chekov was loyal to the crew even as he displayed his love for Russia."
"Fifty years on, as racism, sexism and dying migrants make headlines, it's easy to see how radical Roddenberry’s ideas remain."
"One of the keys to Star Treks success is the fact that almost every aspect of the show is grounded one way or another in real-world concepts. Starfleet, the organization unifying humanity and aliens in the exploration of the galaxy, is one such concept and was undoubtedly influenced by Roddenberry's time as a pilot during World War II."
"I thought she (Uhura) was a glorified telephone operator in space."
"He (Martin Luther King Jr.) felt it was important that children of all races see an African American female appearing on television as an equal."
"A major area of conflict was Bill's concern that Spock was getting ahead of Kirk in terms of problem solving. Bill was worried that Kirk would seem unintelligent by contrast. And so lines of dialogue that had logically been Spock's soon became Kirk's."
"I was a sucker for Star Trek when I was a kid. They were always fun to watch. What made the show lasting was it wasn't actually about technology. It was about values and relationships. Which is why it didn't matter that the special effects were kind of cheesy and bad, right? They'd land on a planet and there are all these papier-mâché boulders. [Laughs.] But it didn't matter because it was really talking about a notion of a common humanity and a confidence in our ability to solve problems. A recent movie captured the same spirit—The Martian. Not because it had a hugely complicated plot, but because it showed a bunch of different people trying to solve a problem. And employing creativity and grit and hard work, and having confidence that if it’s out there, we can figure it out. That is what I love most about America and why it continues to attract people from all around the world for all of the challenges that we face, that spirit of "Oh, we can figure this out." And what I value most about science is this notion that we can figure this out. Well, we're gonna try this—if it doesn't work, we're gonna figure out why it didn't work and then we're gonna try something else. And we will revel in our mistakes, because that is gonna teach us how to ultimately crack the code on the thing that we're trying to solve. And if we ever lose that spirit, then we're gonna lose what is essential about America and what I think is essential about being human."
"Star Trek, like any good story, says that we're all complicated, and we've all got a little bit of Spock and a little bit of Kirk [laughs] and a little bit of Scotty, maybe some Klingon in us, right? But that is what I mean about figuring it out. Part of figuring it out is being able to work across barriers and differences. There's a certain faith in rationality, tempered by some humility. Which is true of the best art and true of the best science. The sense that we possess these incredible minds that we should use, and we're still just scratching the surface, but we shouldn’t get too cocky. We should remind ourselves that there's a lot of stuff we don't know."
"In a time when social divisions seemed unbridgeable and nuclear war appeared imminent, Star Trek offered a positive vision of the future where a united and peaceful humanity explored the stars on behalf of a Federation in which poverty, disease and violent conflict were mostly things of the past."
"Star Trek evoked this sense of technological insecurity when it introduced the Romulan Empire in the gripping "Balance of Terror." Unlike the expansionist Klingons, the Romulans are xenophobic and insular, destroying anyone who violates the Neutral Zone. Thus, the Romulan Empire resembled Mao's isolationist China, then in the grips of the Cultural Revolution — a closed society perceived as a potential threat that might at any moment pour across neighboring borders. The Romulan Neutral Zone also references the Demilitarized Zone separating the divided northern and southern halves of Korea and (at the time) Vietnam."
"In spirit, the original Star Trek was opposed to war and nuclear weapons. However, it could not help sketching a universe in which opposing alliances resorted to espionage, gunboat diplomacy and covert operations. That Cold War influence came across in a different way 25 years after the series debut in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the last Star Trek movie featuring the full original crew. An exploding moon-based power station — shades of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster — leads to an economic and environmental crisis in the Klingon Empire."
"Bill [Shatner] was very upset when Leonard came on particularly strong at the beginning [of the series] because he said, "Am I not the Captain? How come [the writers] don't appreciate that?" It was a very natural reaction. I said to Shatner, "If we had an Eskimo as a second character, you could be sure the Eskimo would get the most delightful lines because of what he is." I advised him not to worry about Spock because all that reflected on Shatner, particularly if Shatner continued to treat Spock properly in the show. I suggested they should show each other a lot of friendship in the show and it would eventually right itself. And, indeed, it did eventually right itself."
"Star Trek offers an almost infinite number of exciting Science Fiction stories, thoroughly practical for television? How? Astronomers put it this way: Ff^2 (MgE) - C^1R1^1 x M = L/So Or to put it in simpler terms, by multiplying the 400,000,000,000 galaxies (star clusters) in the heavens by an estimation of average stars per galaxy (7,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), we have the approximate number of stars in the universe, as we understand it now. And so… …if only one in a billion of these stars is a "sun" with a planet...<br /[A]nd only one in a billion of these is of earth size and composition... [T]here would still be something near 2,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 worlds with a potential of oxygen-carbon life... [O]r...(by the most conservative estimates of chemical and organic probability), something like three million worlds with a chance of intelligent life and social evolution similar to our own."
"The time is somewhere in the future. It could be 1995 or maybe 2995."
"Star Trek was again a very inconsistent show which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches. At other times it was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form."
"Captain Kirk was captain of everybody'sfate. He was a dictator."
"What matters is not what they look like now, but what they looked to others at the time that they prevailed... There is only one spaceship that's earlier than [the original Enterprise], and that's the flying saucer from The Day the Earth Stood Still. So, what matters here is, what did [the Enterprise] look like at the time it came out (1966) compared with anything that had been imagined before? And when you consider that, that is the most astonishing machine that has ever graced the screen."
"The Enterprise was the first ever [spaceship represented in storytelling that was not designed to go from one place to another; [it was] only designed to explore. It was revolutionary in terms of what we would think space would, and should, be about."
"Since its official beginning in New York city in the summer of 1972 with the first fan-organized convention, Star Trek has become a genuine popular phenomenon. So great has been the enthusiasm generated by viewers of the original 1960s series that in fall 1986, twenty years after its first telecast, Star Trek was syndicated in 145 national markets and numerous foreign markets."
"It is not my intention here to recount the history of the series or of the fan phenomenon, as these have been fruitfull explored in a number of popular and scholarly sources. Rather, I want to devote more attention to what I believe to be one of the least discussed aspects of the Star Trek phenomenon-the relationship of the series to the Cold War subtext of the post-war science fiction genre, especially in the context of the show’s original broadcasts during the period of the greatest scalation of the Vietnam War, 1966-1969. The meaning or appeal of any widely popular and enduring classic such as Star Trek is not reducible to any single reading or interpretation However, if we are to understand Star Trek in historical context, its mediation of Cold War themes would seem to be an important underlying element of the series and one worthy of further investigation."
"William Shatner – Captain James T. Kirk"
"Leonard Nimoy – Commander Spock"
"DeForest Kelley – Doctor Leonard McCoy"
"James Doohan – Montgomery "Scotty" Scott"
"George Takei – Hikaru Sulu"
"Nichelle Nichols – Uhura"
"Walter Koenig – Pavel Chekov"
"Majel Barrett – Nurse Christine Chapel/Ship Computer"
"Jeffrey Hunter – Captain Christopher Pike ("The_Menagerie" & "The Cage")"
"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."
"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."
""All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." - John Masefield"
"Avery Brooks – Benjamin Sisko"
"Nana Visitor – Kira Nerys"
"Alexander Siddig – Doctor Julian Bashir"
"Colm Meaney – Chief Miles O'Brien"
"René Auberjonois – Constable Odo"
"Cirroc Lofton – Jake Sisko"
"Armin Shimerman – Quark"
"Terry Farrell – Jadzia Dax [Seasons 1–6]"
"Michael Dorn – Lieutenant Commander Worf [Seasons 4–7]"
"Nicole de Boer – Ezri Dax [Season 7]"
"Contrary to a comment from NY Comic Con, Michael Piller and I pitched our ideas for DS9 to Gene, and he gave us his enthusiastic approval."
"We pitched the concept and characters. We didn't lay-out 7 years of story arcs. It was far too early to know where it was going."
"When Gene died, both Michael Piller and I were involved in creating and writing Deep Space Nine, and we never really got a chance to talk to him about it because he was quite ill at that point. But even with Deep Space Nine and later Voyager, and Enterprise I felt it was important that as long as something had the Star Trek name on it that it stayed true to Gene’s belief of what Star Trek was all about."
"I think Deep Space [Nine] was the show that really took Star Trek as far as you could take it. You have the original series which is a sort of a landmark, it changes everything about the way science fiction is presented on television, at least space-based science fiction. Then you have Next Generation which, for all of its legitimate achievements is still a riff on the original. It's still sort of like, ok, it's another star ship and it's another captain – it's different but it's still a riff on the original. Here comes Deep Space [Nine] and it just runs the table in a different way. It just says ok, you think you know what Star Trek is, let's put it on a space station, and let's make it darker. Let's make it a continuing story, and let's continually challenge your assumptions about what this American icon means. And I think it was the ultimate achievement for the franchise. Personally, I think it's the best of all of them, I think it's an amazing piece of work."
"The truth is that if Gene (Roddenberry) was alive -had been alive- DS9 would have never been made, because he absolutely said “no” to it when it was presented to him. He said ‘Star Trek is about exploring space, it’s not about a hotel in space.’ So, it would never have happened."
"Were Piller and Berman aware of B5 at any time? No. Of that I am also confident. The only question in my mind is to what degree did the development people steer them? One scenario is that they did not steer them at ALL…but knowing of B5, and knowing how swell it would be if they could co-opt B5, if Piller and Berman came up with a space station on their own, they would likely say nothing, even though they might be viewed as being under a moral obligation to say something. Another scenario is that they gave direction to the creative folks without telling them the origin of that direction. There are several ways of dealing with this. One is to launch a major suit with full powers of discovery. The result is that DS9 gets tied up for months, maybe even years in litigation, and maybe the show doesn’t go forward. It also means hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by Warners and me and others pursuing this…not to mention the sense of ill will that will fly back and forth."
"The people that really understand and love Star Trek are no longer there. When Gene Roddenbery passed, that really was the end of Star Trek, as we knew it. The series that came on immediately after was Deep Space Nine, which was the polar opposite of Gene’s philosophy and vision of the future, Star Trek lost it’s way then and now the people at Paramount are all new people. Herb Solow who was the executive in charge of Desilu Studios is now a professor in Wales. We became very good friends and we had dinner with him and his wife before they left, and when I was in London last year I saw an article about a Professor Herb Solow! But, basically the people now at the studio have absolutely no connection with Star Trek as we knew it, sadly."
"I'm working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received."
"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…"
"Things were dictated by the times, by it being post-9/11, but I wanted us to hopefully get back to having a little bit more fun on the show and to get out of that whole Xindi thing. That would have been fun. I think we were pointing in that direction. I think the group was ready to go. The cast was ready to get there, and I think we could have had a blast. But we just didn’t get to go there. And I wanted Archer to kind of grow up and lighten up a little bit."
"Q: The prequel concept sounded so promising, but fans never embraced Enterprise the way they had the other shows. Assuming you agree with that statement, why didn’t Trek fans connect with Enterprise to the same degree they had the previous series?"
"TrekCore: What were the things on Enterprise that you really wanted to do in the fifth season? The biggest tragedy is when it got cut short. Where were you going to take it?"
"It (the romance with Tucker) was so monotonous. There were a lot of feelings, but nothing ever happened. We repeated the same story over and over. Either make it a relationship or don't, but you can't walk this line forever. It's boring."
"I had assumptions, and we all know what happens when we assume. I assumed that the ending would be about our show and not a wrap-up of the conglomerate."
"We started out with 13 million viewers on the pilot, and we somehow managed to drive 11 million of them away."
"Star Trek: Enterprise was the first Trek series to appear after 9/11, and reflected these new realities. The prequel series crew stumbled as they confronted all manner of unfamiliar civilizations, and did not even get along with the Vulcans very well. Then, in season three a 9/11-style attack on Earth forced Starfleet to launch an expedition to go after the shadowy Xindi, who had launched the strike. Making the Xindi potentially scary was the consortium nature of their alliance, including humanoid, arboreal, insectoid and aquatic species. Just as al Qaeda was an international terrorist consortium, the Xindi was more dangerous together than separately — a fact the Enterprise crew use to pry away some of the species from the organization."
"There was a flood of letters from every corner of the world advocating for this Excelsior series and then Paramount suddenly decided they didn’t want fan advice or participation and went ahead and did what they wanted to anyway with Enterprise which was a disastrous failure."
"Well, Enterprise too was literally going in the wrong direction. Gene was always forward looking and in terms of drama he wanted the shock of the new: new life, new civilizations. When you go backward people start nitpicking at the cannon and the technology."
"[opening address to his students] I officially welcome you to the Klingon Defense Forces Elite Command Academy. You have surpassed your peers to earn a place within this distinguished hall... but I tell you, this is not enough. In the days to come, you will be tested beyond your current limitations. Most of you will fail... and failure will mean your immediate dismissal from this institution. Past achievements mean nothing here. I am not interested in the names of your fathers, nor of your family's lineage. What I am interested in... is your breaking point! How will you conduct yourselves in battle? How far will you go to preserve your honor, and fulfill your duty? These are simple questions that will decide the fate of our Empire."
"[lecture before the first simulated starship mission] What a fine collection of warriors... so eager for battle. Are you prepared to destroy your enemies? [the cadets cheer and shout in the affirmative] Really... today, you will fire the first shots in a campaign that will lead to the destruction of the Federation. This campaign is not real... but I assure you, it will be worse than real. If you can defeat them in my simulated trials, you will be able to defeat them anywhere, at any time. I believe you know when an enemy intends you harm... but are you truly prepared? Have you meticulously observed your enemy? Have you discerned his weaknesses, appraised his strengths, discovered his greatest hopes and fears? To know your enemy is to defeat him before you have faced him. Do not wait until you meet him in the coldness of space, for space is the harshest instructor."
"You have all known, since childhood, the symbol of our Empire. It has been called many names throughout the ages. Perhaps the least understood is the "Heart of Virtue", or tiQ ghob, in the ancient tongue. The Heart of Virtue originated from an archaic weapon favored by Kahless, the Unforgettable. It is said he chose this as the symbol of his House and later the Empire because of the weapon's unequaled balance, yet this is inaccurate. Kahless chose it because each of the three blades represents those virtues that are the very foundation of every true warrior: Honor, Loyalty, and Duty, each in perfect balance. Of these three, Duty is the first virtue. It is the beginning and the end of the warrior's path. Without Duty, a warrior becomes the slave of vain glory and reckless self-interest. No true warrior could ever tolerate these vices, neither in his comrades... nor in himself."
"So this is the answer: Polish the blade of Duty, sharpen its edge, until there is nothing it cannot pierce. But do not be lulled into believing this is enough. The longest blade of the Heart of Virtue belongs to Honor. It is the most difficult to master. It has been said, "Mine honor is my life; for that I will live, and for that I will die." What is honor? Honor is the absolute and unselfish adherence to all virtues - to truth, to courage, to forthrightness. It encompasses all these, and yet it is greater. It is the fire illuminating the differences between an armed savage and a true warrior. It is the light that will guide you along the warrior's path."
"[to a much diminished assembly, with the "failures" dismissed] Look around this great hall. What do you see? Many of your peers are gone, yet you remain. That is as it should be. The weak must fall to give place to the strong. Do not allow yourselves to grow careless; security is mortals' chiefest enemy. All true warriors travel the same River of Blood. If one is disgraced, we are all disgraced; if one finds his death in glory, we all share in that glory. No true warrior would allow another to suffer an unjust disgrace, nor would begrudge him the fruits of a well-earned victory. Know this, and your mastery of the Heart of Virtue will be all but complete. Ignore it, and you will ultimately fail yourselves as you fail your comrades. That is why the final blade of the Heart of Virtue signifies Loyalty, because we are all united by our common journey."
"You have come to understand the meaning of the three virtues, and how they may be applied, but understanding does not equate to mastery. True mastery can only be achieved with perfect balance. Therein lies the challenge and mystery of the Heart of Virtue. Any warrior deficient in one aspect is ultimately doomed to fail. Therefore, ask yourselves: Is your honor perfect? Are you unerring in your duty? Is your loyalty beyond reproach? Every warrior's life is the Empire's, but every warrior's soul is his own. This balance is a quest that may require a lifetime to fulfill; it is not a lesson that can be taught. It is something you must discover for yourselves as you travel the River of Blood."
"[regarding the Federation's political acumen] They have successfully knitted together countless worlds of diverse races, plundered their resources, assimilated their technologies, and absorbed their wealth. This is their strength, but it is also their greatest weakness. Their size is difficult to defend, their resources are scattered by time and space, their political system is unwieldy. These races were brought into the Federation not naturally through conquest, but through... diplomacy. This last is the key, for it renders the Federation a brittle unity, unity we will shatter in the days to come. It is war's prize to take all advantages."
"[final lecture] This will be my last address. It marks the end of the Academy's term, and your graduating mission. Whether you fail or succeed in this last trial, I again urge you to remember: You are all Klingons. You carry a legacy in your blood that lends strength to your deeds and strikes terror in the hearts of your enemies. The hope of every Klingon is to die in the service of the Empire. There is no dishonor in falling before a superior foe, if your heart is pure, your actions forthright! What you have been taught will serve you throughout your battles to come, until one day, you earn an honorable and glorious death."
"Christopher Plummer – General Chang"
"David Warner – Chancellor Gorkon"
"Greg Eagles – Torlek (voice only)"
"J. Paul Boehmer – Melkor"
"Deanna Troi: Poverty, disease, war. They'll all be gone within the next fifty years."
"Mr. Spock: Jim, I remind you that this is a silicon-based form of life. Dr. McCoy's medical knowledge will be totally useless."
"Dr. McCoy: Biped. Small. Good cranial development. No doubt considerable human ancestry. Is that how you're able to fake all of this? Very good. Modern museum perfection. Right down to the cement beams. Very, very good. Oh, I'd give a lot to see the hospital. Probably needles and sutures. All the pain. They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures. Oh, the terrible pain!"
"Tasha: Sorry to call you, sir. Not strictly security. It's about the dietary requirements of the Antican delegates."
"Patient: Doctor."
"Intern #1: Did you hear anything?"
"Doctor #1: A simple evacuation of the expanding epidural hematoma will relieve the pressure."
"Vina: They found me in the wreckage, dying. A lump of flesh. They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together."
"Mr. Spock: Doctor, if I were able to show emotion, your new infatuation with that term would begin to annoy me."
"Patrick Stewart – Admiral/Captain Jean-Luc Picard"
"Alison Pill – Agnes Jurati"
"Isa Briones – Dahj Asha, Soji Asha and Kore Soong"
"Michelle Hurd – Rafaella "Raffi" Musiker"
"Santiago Cabrera – Cristobal "Chris" Rios"
"Evan Evagora – Elnor"
"Jeri Ryan – Seven of Nine"
"Orla Brady – Laris/Tallinn"
"Harry Treadaway – Narek"
"Jonathan Frakes – Captain William Riker (Guest: Season 1, Main: Season 3)"
"Marina Sirtis – Deanna Troi (Guest: Season 1, Main: Season 3)"
"Brent Spiner – Lieutenant Commander Data, Dr. Altan Inigo Soong, Dr. Adam Soong, Lore and Daystrom Android M-5-10 (Guest: Seasons 1–2, Main: Season 3)"
"Gates McFadden – Beverly Crusher"
"LeVar Burton – Geordie La Forge"
"Michael Dorn – Worf"
"Ed Speelers – Jack Crusher"
"Amanda Plummer – Vadic"
"Todd Stashwick – Captain Liam Bradshaw"
"Whoopi Goldberg – Guinan"
"John de Lancie – Q"
"Annie Wersching – Borg Queen (season 2)"
"Penelope Mitchell – Renée Picard"
"Wil Weaton — Wesley Crusher"
"Alice Krige – Borg Queen (voice, season 3)"
"Mica Burton – Alandra La Forge"
"Tim Russ – Tuvok (Changeling, original)"
"Walter Koenig – Anton Chekov"
"For what would soon become known as the Vulcan salute, I borrowed a hand symbol from Orthodox Judaism. During the High Holiday services, the Kohanim (who are the priests) bless those in attendance. As they do, they extend the palms of both hands over the congregation, with thumbs outstretched and the middle and ring fingers parted so that each hand forms two vees. This gesture symbolizes the Hebrew letter shin [], the first letter in the word Shaddai, "Lord"; in the Jewish Qabala, shin also represents eternal Spirit."
"So much later, I learned that this is the shape of the letter shin [], Hebrew alphabet shin. Very interesting letter in the language. It's the first letter of the word Shaddai, the first letter in the word Shalom, the first letter in the word Shechinah, which is the name of the feminine aspect of God. ... People don't realize they're blessing each other with this! It's great."