I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'


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Star Trek: The Next Generation.
JAMES CROMWELL
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STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION
The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION
Star Trek: The New Generation.
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home, and crawl under your bed. I...
Q
I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am p...
GEORGE TAKEI
I grew up with 'Star Wars,' not 'Star Trek.'
RONY ABOVITZ
I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
RACHEL COHN
'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episode...
GEORGE TAKEI
I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watchin...
OLIVIA THIRLBY
I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
DAMON LINDELOF
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
FARAN TAHIR
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then ...
BRENT SPINER
I was a big fan of 'Star Trek.' But then again, you know, 'Star Trek', 'Star War...
DEEP ROY
I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those...
SAM HEUGHAN
One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong f...
GEORGE TAKEI
I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.
JERI RYAN
I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's create...
JOHN SCALZI
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll se...
WILLIAM SHATNER
My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecu...
MOHSIN HAMID
I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to...
TONY DITERLIZZI
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction ...
MATT GROENING
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the nex...
CHRISTOPHER LEE
I didn't realize it at first, but the Doctor is in the same spirit as those natural 'outside...
ROBERT PICARDO
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my hou...
AARON NEVILLE
What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abr...
ROBERT PICARDO
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking ...
GREGORY BENFORD
Another step for the Federation, ... Star Trek.
BILL SHEPHERD
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek&#...
BLAIR BROWN
I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future,...
SETH MACFARLANE
I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
MANNY COTO
I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would so...
SCOTT BAKULA
Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I coul...
CARY FUKUNAGA
'Lost' is an entity of its own. It's still such a culture touchstone that I think it'...
SONYA WALGER
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myt...
PETER DINKLAGE
I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennesse...
KENNY LEON
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a l...
MING-NA WEN
Star Trek
NICHOLAS MEYER
As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Tr...
ELLEN STOFAN
'Star Trek' fans totally accepted my sexual orientation. There are a great number of LGBT pe...
GEORGE TAKEI
I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was...
GENE RODDENBERRY
It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL
'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they w...
CHRIS PINE
It is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much sh...
GENE RODDENBERRY
I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of peop...
WILLIAM SHATNER
About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I...
JAMES TAYLOR
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.
KIDADA JONES
I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space...
SAM HEUGHAN
'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint...
REGINA BRETT
I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried t...
ROBERT KAZINSKY
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embr...
GEORGE TAKEI
It's either 'Saw' made for $4 million or 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' '...
CHRIS PINE
I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing ...
SCOTT AUKERMAN
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children ...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO
I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm...
KEVIN HART
After 'Star Trek,' I was the commander on 'Stargate Atlantis,' the final season, and...
ROBERT PICARDO
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON
Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS
I have an affinity for this kind of athlete,
BILL POLIAN
People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek'...
DAVID NEWMAN
I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.
LUDACRIS
Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyp...
GEORGE TAKEI
I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'
DANIEL LOGAN
We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and R...
DOUG DUCEY
Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!
RICK RIORDAN
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN
The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation&#...
R. J. CUTLER
'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone'...
MARK PELLEGRINO
Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79...
DAVID GERROLD
The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically co...
STAR TREK
Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ...
STAR TREK
[Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive producer of CBS' upcoming SF suspense thriller, Threshold ,...
STAR TREK
Die Realität in den 1960ern waren total anders. Um zu kommunizieren schrieben wir Briefe auf unsere...
STAR TREK
but based on solid technological advances.
STAR TREK
I watched some of the original series when I was a kid, and watched some of the NEXT GENERATION show...
STAR TREK
[Sep 26 |] Is human nature savage? It's a question that STAR TREK addressed in many ways, ... You'd ...
STAR TREK
Everyone says two sentences and that's it! We can be home in twenty minutes!
STAR TREK
beendete dies Data's Reise zur Menschlichkeit. Indem er sich selbst für einen Freund opferte, wurde...
STAR TREK
. Aber sie tatens. ER überlebte länger, aber beide hielten sich lange. Zwei der neuen SF Serien we...
STAR TREK
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,'...
KATE MULGREW
We're a show-and-tell generation. People want to see behind the scenes. The more involved and in...
EVA CHEN
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campa...
PATRICK STEWART
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'
DANIEL LOGAN
Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can d...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

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JOHN ADAMS
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur...
JOHN ADAMS
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS
The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of...
JOHN ADAMS
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
JOHN ADAMS
When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. JOHN ADAMS You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...
JOHN ADAMS
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
JOHN ADAMS
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS
Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capabl...
JOHN ADAMS
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a...
JOHN ADAMS
Ontario is so far behind in newborn screening that this is a useful baby step, but there are signifi...
JOHN ADAMS
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS