All Quotes

Star Trek characters never go shopping.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT people across 'Star Trek' fandom. The show always appealed to people that were different - the geeks and the nerds, and the people who felt they were not quite a part of society, sometimes because they may have been gay or lesbian.
‐‐ George Takei

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.
‐‐ DeForest Kelley

'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.
‐‐ Roberto Orci

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

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.
‐‐ Chris Pine

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
‐‐ George Takei

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

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

'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with 'Star Wars: Clone Wars,' we're starting to see a merging, though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something 'Star Trek' was known for.
‐‐ George Takei

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.
‐‐ David Gerrold

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.
‐‐ Regina Brett

'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
‐‐ Aaron Douglas

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.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

'Star Trek''s insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.
‐‐ Chris Pine

'Star Trek' speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

'Star Trek' still - I'm kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone' is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from 'Being Human' sit down and have marathons to get our little 'Twilight Zone' fix.
‐‐ Mark Pellegrino

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
‐‐ Gary Lockwood

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.
‐‐ Damian Loeb

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.
‐‐ David Conyers

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.
‐‐ Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is different to anything I've done before.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
‐‐ George Lucas

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.
‐‐ Mark Hamill

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
‐‐ Michael Franti

'Star Wars' is on my bucket list. Even if it's just a small walk on, I don't care.
‐‐ Ming-Na Wen

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

'Star Wars' is something that I've been a fan of since I was a kid - I played all the video games and I grew up reading 'Star Wars' books.
‐‐ Samuel Witwer

'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.
‐‐ Seth Green

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.
‐‐ Claudia Gray

'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.
‐‐ James Luceno

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
‐‐ Gary Coleman

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.
‐‐ Julian Glover

'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn't something that I should probably disclose.
‐‐ Jack Reynor

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
‐‐ Howard Schultz