The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

I have been accused of never saying no.

A series is filled with compromises.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.