Nichelle Nichols Quotes

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.

When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.

Aren't we all 'Star Trek' fans? That's the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.

And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid.

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

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

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

'Trek' is probably more cerebral and philosophical. 'Stargate' does seat-of-the-pants adventure and humor better.

Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people.

There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

I like sci-fi.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

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

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.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

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

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.