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

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

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.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.

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.

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