It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.

We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!