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.

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

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

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

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

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.