You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was the one that explained American democracy to me. He said, ‘Our democracy is a people’s democracy and it can be as great as people can be, and it can be great… but we are also fallible human beings.’

The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.