In the theater, we were sort of happy to do what we could get.

It’s a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.

While we were on the WB we were certainly not the number one show.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very thankful for all the aliens I’ve met and loved.

I get an inordinate amount of, diplomatically, let’s say odd, mail and scripts and treatments and story ideas and theories and theorems.

Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.

I’m proud of the show on a lot of levels, but the idea that people are inspired to study anything is good news to me.

As an executive producer who’s not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows...

I wasn’t surprised, because I know that there’s been that kind of loyalty about Star Trek, historically, certainly in the original seasons; the original series was picked up partially because of fan support.

No, I was a psychology major in college.

I must say I was thrilled that that happened for Roswell; that was kind of a treat.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they’ll make another one.

When I produced Roswell, it was clear to me that my value to that show was as a director, because I was not a writer, and I wasn’t a line producer.

So, the premise of the show, that there were in fact aliens from Roswell who had infiltrated the public, I thought was very intriguing and very sellable.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened...

When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it’s sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I’m thrilled...

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us – as actors, writers, directors.

I didn’t know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

I don’t think there’s any reason to be an actor unless you feel deep in your soul that you have to be, because it’s not a career that one can count on working in or...

Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.

I think that I’ve been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this.

I always was – and still am – somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.

But nothing really felt like it was going to take off the way that Star Trek did, before that.

I don’t think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

I think by the end of the first season it was pretty clear that the numbers, if you will, were greater than the projected numbers, and that we were going to be around for awhile.

It’s pretty evident even when you’re a guest actor on a show – you know where the power is.

It took me a long time to get off the Enterprise, but I finally did.

It evolved, in all honesty, into a show much more about the mythology of the aliens than about the angst about teen romance.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens’ background.

I have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.

The last script was so wonderful and the story was so exciting. The film itself did so well and, frankly, it made so much money-it kind of reinvigorated the whole franchise.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

No, though I had done some plays as a kid, because it was fun. But I hadn’t considered it as a profession.

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a story more clearly if there’s an evil element for them to cheer against and...

If it was a guest part, you’d only go in once and read for the producer and director, and you’d know the next day if you were going in to work.

I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.

I was a psych major until I saw how much fun the actors were having, and I decided I’d transfer over to the theater arts department.

I’m sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It’s my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what’s in the budget.

I sort of made a deal with myself that if I was going to spend a year on a project, I wanted my kids to see it at the end so they know where Dad...

Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they’ll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third...