- Nov 07, 2020
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- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ship's transporters - which let the crew 'beam' from place to place - really came out of a production need. I realized with this huge spaceship, I would blow the whole budget of the show just in landing the thing on a planet.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they put out the sales brochure when we eventually went to series, they carefully rounded Spock's ears and made him look human so he wouldn't scare off potential advertisers.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Russians were responsible for the Chekov character. They put in 'Pravda' that, 'Ah, the ugly Americans are at it again. They do a space show, and they forget to include the people who were in space first.' And I said, 'My God, they're right.'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Star Trek' episodes always insisted that humanity is on its bumpy way to what will be a glorious future in the 23rd century, in which we will have left most of our old selfishness - and old hatreds and prejudices - far behind us.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
- Alien
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 'ST' format to let space and alien worlds, rather than human weakness, provide the conflict and danger necessary to our adventure show.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.
- Faulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
- Move
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
- Excitement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the 'Star Trek' philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have felt many times trapped by 'Star Trek.' It cost me dearly. It won't anymore, because I've come to grips with what it is and where it fits in my life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
- Bomber
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020