One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

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.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.