Star Trek Quotes

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
- William Shatner

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
- William Shatner

I never watched 'Star Trek.'
- William Shatner

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.
- William Shatner

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.
- William Shatner

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

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
- Majel Barrett

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
- Majel Barrett

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
- Bruce Boxleitner

Do I look like I watch Star Trek?
- Michael Scott

Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
- Mel Brooks

Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!
- Rick Riordan

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
- Levar Burton

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
- Levar Burton

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
- Levar Burton

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
- Levar Burton

Star Trek?" I asked her. "Really?"
"What?" she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together.
"There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly," I said. "Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking."
She sniffed. "This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both."
"Blasphemy and lies," I said.
- Jim Butcher

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.
- George Carlin

Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.
- Diablo Cody

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
- Terry Pratchett

I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.
- Stephen Collins

Star Trek characters never go shopping.
- Doug Coupland

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave
- John Green

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek.
- Casper Van Dien

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
- Diane Duane

Jax gave him a look, and he nodded, silently agreeing he wouldn't do anything stupid. Like kiss her. Or go to her house to watch Star Trek outtakes.
- Trinity Faegen

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
- Jonathan Frakes

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
- Jonathan Frakes

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.
- Jonathan Frakes

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
- Jonathan Frakes

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.
- Mark Goddard

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.
- Tom Hardy

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.
- Andrew S Hinkinson

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.
- Josh Holloway

We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!
- Carrie Jones

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.
- Deforest Kelley

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
- Deforest Kelley

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.
- Persis Khambatta

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.
- Persis Khambatta

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
- Persis Khambatta

I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
- Persis Khambatta

The word impossible contains the word possible'
What's that-- some Zen thing?'
I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
- Dean Koontz

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
- Gary Lockwood

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
- Colm Meaney

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
- Kate Mulgrew

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
- Kate Mulgrew

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
- Nichelle Nichols

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.
- Nichelle Nichols

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
- Nichelle Nichols

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.
- Leslie Nielsen

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. [...] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
- Gene Roddenberry

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, No, we don't.
- Gene Roddenberry

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.
- Jeri Ryan

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
- Jeri Ryan

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.
- Jeri Ryan

I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
- Dwight Schultz

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.
- Izabella Scorupco

I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.
- Izabella Scorupco

She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.
- Alice Sebold

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
- Robert Sheckley

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.
- Marina Sirtis

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.
- Marina Sirtis

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.
- Marina Sirtis

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
- Marina Sirtis

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
- Brent Spiner

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
- Brent Spiner

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
- Patrick Stewart

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
- Patrick Stewart

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
- Patrick Stewart

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
- Patrick Stewart

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
- Patrick Stewart

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
- Patrick Stewart

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.
- Patrick Stewart

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.
- Patrick Stewart

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
- Patrick Stewart

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
- Patrick Stewart

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
- J Michael Straczynski

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
- George Takei

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
- George Takei

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
- George Takei

I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
- Olivia Thirlby

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
- Tracey Ullman

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
- Sigourney Weaver