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

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

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.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

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

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

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.