'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

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

I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.