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

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

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.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

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

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.