an old woman. . . is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series]. I certainly didn't.
I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.
Initially I objected to the Data makeup. I said, "Why do I need this makeup? Why can't I just look like me?" In fact, I said to Gene Roddenberry, "Don't you think that by this time in history, they would've figured out how to make skin look like skin?" And he said, "What makes you think that what you have isn't better than skin?" And I went, "Um, okay. "
Can't argue with Gene Roddenberry. He was a pretty brilliant guy.
I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they'd write an arc if I'd do it.
They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions