David Gerrold Quotes

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.

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

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

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.

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

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

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.