134 Quotes by Gene Roddenberry

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.

I became a reader – thank God I became a reader. I lived in a dream world because it was a hell of a lot better world.

I don’t know if this has a moral or not. Maybe it’s “Don’t sit inside of soap cartons too long – unless you enjoy traveling.

Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.

Listening to you gives me the impression that you divide everything into two parts – things you believe, and things you don’t believe. I look at the world differently – there are a few things I firmly believe, and a few things I don’t believe at all, but in between there is a vast range of things I wonder about, and that’s what makes life interesting.

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say 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 lifeforms.

'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.

I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling totally in love with 'Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle' and dreaming of having his strength to leap into trees and throw mighty lions to the ground.