To Be Different Is Not Necessarily To

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.'

I Have Always Been Reasonably Leery Of Religion Because There Are So Many Edicts In Religion, 'thou Shalt Not,' Or 'thou Shalt.' I Wanted My World Of The Future To Be Clear Of That.

A Man Either Lives Life As It Happens To Him, Meets It Head-on And Licks It, Or He Turns His Back On It And Starts To Wither Away.

In The Fifth Season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] Viewers Will See More Of Shipboard Life [including] Gay Crew Members In Day-to-day Circumstances.

Picard: There Is No Greater Challenge Than The Study Of Philosophy. Wesley: But William James Won't Be In My Starfleet Exams. Picard: The Important Things Never Will Be. Anyone Can Be Trained In The Mechanics Of Piloting A Starship. Wesley: But Starfleet Academy Picard: It Takes More. Open Your Mind To The Past. Art, History, Philosophy. And All This May Mean Something.