By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.
The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.
There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.