Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.