"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."

"The time is somewhere in the future. It could be 1995 or maybe 2995."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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, 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."

"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."

"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."

"Home is the nicest word there is."

"Eva, you're lying! [Eva: Willie and Laura, go to your room! Please!] I'll kill stand the corner! [Eva Beadle: I never sent I was.]"

"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all (Julia Sanderson, 2.08 Remember Me, Part 1)"

"Dakota, don't you walk away of this!"

"Stupid dog!"

"Robber, he bit me!"

"Bad dog! Percival, you are a VERY bad dog!"

"Laura stand the other corner. [Uncle John: (spanking on the Miss Beadle's face) You’re grounded!] No, you can’t ground me and I’m not going jail anymore!"

"[to Pa] This is your fault! You're killed a dog!"

"My pa doesn't know anything about football (Andy to his friends in episode 5.03, "The Winoka Warriors". This comment was an inside joke on Merlin Olsen (as Andy Garvey's father Jonathan) who knew everything about football as he played for 15 seasons in the National Football League (all with the Los Angeles Rams) and appeared in the Pro Bowl for 14 of his 15 seasons)"

"Lemon verbena! Anyone who wears lemon verbena is a friend of mine! (Isaiah to Jenny in, 9.01 Times Are Changing)"

"Hard working folks only smell bad to people who have nothing better than stick their noses in the air! Well, whenever you stick your nose in the air with me, Nellie Oleson, it's going to get punched! (Laura to Nellie in, 2.01 The Richest Man in Walnut Grove)"

"Miss Beadle (and other teachers): [to dog in the school] Get out! Shoo, shoo, shoo! Kill it!"

"Miss Beadle: [sobbing] Nancy, do you hear it. STAND THE CORNER IS DEAD!!!"

"Robber: [to Miss Beadle] Stand the corner is dead! [leaves]"

"Miss Beadle (and other teachers): In the corner, Willie, or I will kill myself! [Mr. Edwards: KNOCK IT OFF, Miss Beadle! You’re (he pokes Miss Beadle's chest) grounded! No TV, no work and no sit down the chair for a whole month!] But, Mr. Edwards, you won't happen again! You can’t ground me, you’re not going to jail anymore! [Mr. Edwards and Miss Beadle begins arguing conflict fighting]"

"Nancy Oleson: You hate me!"

"Mr. Edwards: No peekin'! Can't stand for no peekin'!"

"Seeing you like that, Pilar, reminds me of an old TV show. "The Jeffersons." You're moving on up!""

"Let me out! I have a bride to bludgeon to death."

"Well, we all remember where the bloody corpse dream got the family the last time."

"What's up, Julian? It wouldn't have anything to do with, let's see, a mysterious bird statue?"

"[to Sheridan] "Studies I've seen say the number one reason marriages are successful is because the two people involved have a lot in common. You have a lot. Luis is common."

"[about Beth] "Strike her down now, God! Lightning bolts 'til she's good and crispy!"

"So Charity's like Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker combined?"

"[Timmy speaks to a sleeping Charity] Timmy would lay down his life for you... if Timmy had a life to lay down."

"You know what they say about denial: it's not just a river in Egypt."

"Irma, I don't know where the hell you get these crazy accusations about Eve - that she had a baby with another man. Maybe it's because you're watching those crazy soap operas... the one that comes on after Days of Our Lives, but that's totally unbelievable!"

"[Kay informs Simone that her "chest exercises" have paid off] Get real, girl. There's a lot more than exercises in that bra."

"[about Chad] Isn't he just the tastiest thing you ever saw in your life?"

"[about Edna Wallace] Oh, my God! Alistair rode that old Jalopy? Oh! And people say I'm depraved."

"Theresa is just like that little pink bunny, she keeps lying and lying and lying.""

"[to Whitney] What do you think? If you allow yourself to have feelings for some guy, your arm will just fall off and you'll never play tennis again?"

"I've lost the only man worth dieting for!"

"Oh the mortals these days! Using their Internet, email, cell phones, and text messaging, whatever the hell that is..."

"I've had enough of the Don King routine, Timmy. Do something with your hair."

"Blast that interfering next door neighbor of mine, Grace Bennett!"

"What on Earth has you guzzling Martimmies at this time of day - and out of a shaker no less?"

"Lucy Ricardo caused less havoc when she was smuggling cheese back from Europe!"