I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

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

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.