The Human Race Is A Remarkable Creature,

For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain. If People Need Religion, Ignore Them And Maybe They Will Ignore You, And You Can Go On With Your Life. It Wasn't Until I Was Beginning To Do Star Trek That The Subject Of Religion Arose. What Brought It Up Was That People Were Saying That I Would Have A Chaplain On Board The Enterprise. I Replied, "no, We Don't.

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.

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.

I Believe In Humanity. We Are An Incredible Species. We're Still Just A Child Creature, We're Still Being Nasty To Each Other. And All Children Go Through Those Phases. We're Growing Up, We're Moving Into Adolescence Now. When We Grow Up - Man, We're Going To Be 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.