They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.