For Me Science Fiction Is A Way

The Network Told Me To Get Rid Of Number One, The Woman First Lieutenant, And Also Get Rid Of 'that Martian Fellow'... Meaning, Of Course, Spock. I Knew I Couldn't Keep Both, So I Gave The Stoicism Of The Female Officer To Spock, And Married The Actress Who Played Number One. Thank God It Wasn't The Other Way Around. I Mean Leonard's Cute, But...

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. Religions Vary In Their Degree Of Idiocy, But I Reject Them All. For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain.

They Said God Was On High And He Controlled The World And Therefore We Must Pray Against Satan. Well, If God Controls The World, He Controls Satan. For Me, Religion Was Full Of Misstatements And Reaches Of Logic That I Just Couldn't Agree With.

Why Are We Now Going Into Space? Well, Why Did We Trouble To Look Past The Next Mountain? Our Prime Obligation To Ourselves Is To Make The Unknown Known. We Are On A Journey To Keep An Appointment With Whatever We Are.

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.