Steve Hockensmith Quotes

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

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

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

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

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

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.

I'm immensely fortunate to have been involved in the 'Star Trek' universe. It has been a lot of fun, and I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity to have been part of something so important to so many people.

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

I'm a huge Trekkie.

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

Star Trek made dreaming legitimate.

I didn't want to be trapped in an idea of replicating other 'Star Trek' characters; especially Vulcans. But my love and I have Spock paraphernalia all over our house. He's an omnipresence in our lives, we adore him.

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.

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

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

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.

'Star Trek' was inspiring to me.

'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.

Not a big sci-fi guy.

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.

I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.

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.