Gene Roddenberry quotes - page 2

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. (Gene Roddenberry)
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities. View quote
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He looked at me and said, ‘The difference between your agent and me is that your agent can't get you out of here at five o'clock on Friday and I can. And all it'll cost you is twenty percent ” "‘Gene, I can't do that to this agent,' I said. ‘He got me the job.'” "And then he said, and I will never forget his exact words, ‘Well, you're just going to have to learn how to bow down and say master.' View quote
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I have had so much trouble with emotion in my life I thought it just would be fun to write someone who didn't have that problem. View quote
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That's been a question, one of the big questions in my life. 'What is a human?' What are the elements that make a human?' It's a search for... how many elements do you get before you say, "Yes, it's human," where before you were saying it's not human. View quote
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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. View quote
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To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike. View quote
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We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. View quote
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Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things. View quote
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For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects. View quote
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Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?" (Gene Roddenberry)
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. View quote
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They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk. View quote
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting. View quote
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'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. View quote
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For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. View quote
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Science fiction is a beautiful game, and a beautiful experience. View quote
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We're capable of great things. And I've no doubt that the creature that follows us will be capable of even more. Evolution didn't stop with us: "Oh great and beautiful mankind! We've made it!" We haven't. Evolution can go on forever. View quote
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Let me dream. View quote
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The question of consciousness has always intrigued me. It starts with the question, 'Are we our bodies or are we our consciousness? What are we made up of? View quote
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. (Gene Roddenberry)
He was a chiseler who wanted a cut of outside money his cast earned, demanded to be called ‘master,' and prohibited poor Nimoy from using a company pencil. View quote
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His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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