Other Star Trek-Related Quotes

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Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek.

My experience with Rick Berman is, you know, he does not understand what he's doing, he does not understand science fiction.
--Andrew Probert, senior illustrator, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1986-1988)

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He's got so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.
--Captain James T. Kirk; Star Trek: The God Thing*

*Gene Roddenberry's unproduced script for what would eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Seven shelters the Doctor in her implants, tonight on Star Trek: Voyager.
--Description of the Voyager episode "Body and Soul" as printed in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal

Klingons build their battle cruisers without toilets; it makes them nastier. Klingons pick on old ladies. Klingons fart in air locks. Klingons drops litter in the streets. Klingons pick their teeth in public. And those are their good points.
--The World of Star Trek, by David Gerrold

I hate being asked anything technical about Star Trek. People ask me, "What is Warp 9?" That's how fast you go, and you can't do it on the freeway.
--Patrick Stewart

We don't get Emmys, but we do get action figures. Having an action figure is wonderful... you can play with yourself in public. Wait, that didn't come out right.
--Robert Picardo on acting in the Star Trek franchise

I don't know what possessed me to put a horizontal color line across the waist of a man with a weight problem.
--William Ware Theiss on designing William Shatner's uniform for Star Trek

I never cared for those pants. A bit too fey for me.
--James Doohan on the old Star Trek uniforms

The genius of Picard actor Patrick Stewart is his apparently God-given ability to deliver absolute crap quality with absolute dignity and authority.
--from "The Facer"'s review of a rough cut of Star Trek: Nemesis