"Given Roddenberry's goal of a television series revolving around the adventures of a space-age Captain Horatio Hornblower, it is not surprising that much of the international structure would be based upon the law as it existed during the heyday of the fighting sail. In contrast to our contemporary world, in which international telephone communications are instantaneous and where travel from any one point on the globe to any other can be accomplished in under a day's time, the planets on ST:TNG sometimes go for decades without communicating with one another, and the time to travel form one planet to another (even at warp speed) is measured in days, weeks or years - not hours. In such a decentralized legal system, there would not be enough repetition of practice to develop customary law."

"I wrote the bible for that show, not Gene. He took credit for it, of course. And the idea of the older, more mature Captain — that was mine. That way we could keep the Captain on the bridge and make the first officer the Mission Specialist."

"We wanted to get away from the heavy, preachy, moralizing sci-fi of shows like Star Trek: TNG, which in my view took all the joie de vivre out of the original series."

"Star Trek is not like any other show because it is one unique vision, and if you agree with Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future, you should be locked up somewhere. It's wacky doodle, but it's his wacky doodle. If you can't deal with that, you can't do the show. There are rules on top of rules on top of rules...Gene sees this pollyanish view of the future where everything is going to be fine...I don't believe it, but you have to suppress all that and put it aside. You suspend your own feelings and your own beliefs, and you get with his vision...or you get rewritten."

"During the years of Captain Kirk's Enterprise 4% of the galaxy has been charted -- not explored -- since exploration would have required visits to all the approximately 11,000,000,000 stars and planetary systems in that 4% of the galaxy. By the time of our 24th century stories, only 19% of it has been charted. If only one of a million of the stars in the galaxy has worlds and if only one of out of a million of these worlds were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million of those bore intelligent life, there would still be millions of inhabited worlds for us to visit."

"It is hard to overstate how much of a departure the “Star Trek” franchise’s eighties-and-nineties-straddling incarnation, “The Next Generation,” was from the original series. It retained much of the nomenclature and established codes (the inscrutable techno-scientific babble, the ship’s name, the naval ranks, the canonical alien species) but swung almost entirely toward the second, more cerebral form of science fiction. It had no anchor in the present, nor did it genuflect before America’s frontier myths. “The Next Generation” was wholesale utopia, a thought experiment on how humans would behave under terminally improved material circumstances. Civilization, and the future, had won."

"“Star Trek: The Next Generation” has precious little to tell us about our present selves. Or, rather, it tells us who we are not, and who we might become someday. This is not the type of science fiction that we are accustomed to consuming, or that TV and film producers are accustomed to making."

"Denise Crosby – Lieutenant Tasha Yar [Episodes 1.1–1.23, "Shades of Gray", "Yesterday's Enterprise", "All Good Things..."]"

"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)"

"Home is the nicest word there is."

"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!"

"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'!"

"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.]"