Bill Mumy Quotes

So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

In the long run, I think I like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' better as a television series, because it had so much more time and room and space to grow.

It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.

I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

I've never watched an episode of 'Star Trek.' For real.

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

I grew up on all the 'Star Wars' movies and 'Star Trek' and all that. I just haven't really kept current.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I wanted to write other kinds of books, even within what might be termed the fairly narrow overlapping genre categories of hard SF and space opera.

'Star Trek' came along fairly early. And I don't know what they saw in me that said Captain Kruge, because I hadn't done anything remotely like that, but it worked out.