Robert Picardo Quotes

There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn't why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.

I started watching 'Star Trek' as a kid.

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

I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.

Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

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.

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

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

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

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

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