Quotes from Judith Reeves-Stevens

What a starship needs is a bar, Kirk thought. A nice lounge somewhere, maybe forward where there'd be a good view, a few tables, a place to go and relax off duty. Perhaps he'd suggest it in his next report.

What would you have me do, Odo? We're all terminal cases. Even our cultures. Even our worlds. A hundred years for an individual and he's gone, only a memory for a hundred more, at most. Perhaps longer if he's someone to whom they build statues. But after a thousand years, whom do we really remember?

The moral had been clear: Between thinking about one's next term in office and thinking about the next generation was a difference in attitude that could save an entire world—or condemn it.

Betazoids could not form empathic or telepathic impressions of Ferengi