Matter Of Internal Security - The Age-old

'star Trek' Is A 'wagon Train' Concept - Built Around Characters Who Travel To Worlds 'similar' To Our Own, And Meet The Action-adventure-drama Which Become Our Stories. Their Transportation Is The Cruiser 's.s. Yorktown,' Performing A Well-defined And Long-range Exploration-science-security Mission Which Helps Create Our Format.

The Strength Of A Civilization Is Not Measured By Its Ability To Fight Wars, But Rather By Its Ability To Prevent Them.

We Stress Humanity, And This Is Done At Considerable Cost. We Can't Have A Lot Of Dramatics That Other Shows Get Away With - Promiscuity, Greed, Jealousy. None Of Those Have A Place In 'star Trek.'

We Are On A Journey To Keep An Appointment With Whatever We Are.

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.