List of Gene Roddenberry Quotes

I Wish I Had More Control, More Like Edgar Rice Burroughs Had, But I'm A Realist, Too. I Work In Television. I Don't Know That I Would Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Controlling My Characters.

If 'trek' Is A Hit, We'd Love To Do A Series Of Films - A Regular Event. Look At James Bond's Films. They've Been Around Since The Early Sixties.

When You Get Into An Airplane By Yourself And Take Off, You Find Yourself In This Lovely, Three-dimensional World Where You Can Go In Any Direction. There Is No Feeling Any More Exciting Than That.

Matter Of Internal Security - The Age-old Cry Of The Oppressor. Picard

The Present Blitz About Drugs - I Think It Looks Very Much Like How We Treated Insane People 100 Years Ago -- Throw Them In The Cage - As If That's The Whole Answer. And It's Not The Whole Answer.

In The Fifth Season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] Viewers Will See More Of Shipboard Life [including] Gay Crew Members In Day-to-day Circumstances.

In A Better World, I Can Do Anything. I'll Be There In A Better World. In A Better World, They Will Not Laugh At Me Or Look Down Their Nose At Me.

Its Seems To Me - It's Likely That Heaven's Here Right Now. If You Could Take Life With Its Pain And Misery, Where You Fail And You Sometimes Win, And If You Package It Into A Game, People Would Pay A Fortune To Have This Game. And I Don't Know That I'd Want It To Be Resolved So Peacefully That The Game Would Be All Over.

For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain.

There Was Much To Put Out Of His Mind. Why Was It Difficult To Forget Chekov's Astonished Delight Which Greeted Him At The Command Airlock When He Boarded. And On The Bridge - Kirk! The Mere Name Made Spock Groan Inwardly As He Remembered What It Had Cost Him To Turn Away From That Welcome. T'hy'la!

Picard: There Is No Greater Challenge Than The Study Of Philosophy. Wesley: But William James Won't Be In My Starfleet Exams. Picard: The Important Things Never Will Be. Anyone Can Be Trained In The Mechanics Of Piloting A Starship. Wesley: But Starfleet Academy Picard: It Takes More. Open Your Mind To The Past. Art, History, Philosophy. And All This May Mean Something.

You Can't Take This Speck Of Dust In This Midst Of All This Incredible Panorama Of Birth And Complexifying And Say...this Is The Only Place That [life] Happens. It's Like Turning Your Back On The Whole Idea Of Growth And Evolution.