“I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particul...” — Gene Roddenberry Quote

“I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.”

“We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.”

“The ship's transporters - which let the crew 'beam' from place to place - really came out of a production need. I realized with this huge spaceship, I would blow the whole budget of the show just in landing the thing on a planet.”

“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

“I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.”

“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”

“Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.”

“I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.”

“I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.”

“I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.”

“At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.”

“The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.”