I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.