I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

All literature is political.

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.