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Quotes About Starship

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
~ Paul Kantner
Captain, someone is stealing the Enterprise.
~ James Swallow
What does God need with a starship?
~ William Shatner
The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.
~ Rick Sternbach
We like it here very much. The All-Night Convenience was a fully stocked, self-sufficient organism, like the Starship Enterprise, or the Kon-Tiki.
~ Kelly Link
What does God need with a starship?
~ William Shatner
What else are we going to do? An alien starship, Bartolomeo. As far as we know, this is the first and only time in human history that we have had any contact, any evidence of an intelligent alien civilization. We can't just stop now, leave it all behind as if it didn't exist." That
~ Richard Paul Russo
That a starship could be built, that it could be propelled by laser beams, that humanity could reach the stars; this idea appeared to have been an intoxicant, to people around Saturn and on Earth in particular.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I've always wondered though, " Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?""Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?""Until they learn a new position.
~ Sabrina Zbasnik
The Millennium Falcon rose.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
~ George Takei
A few strands of dark hair floated around her face, escaped from his braid, but the five-point restraints kept her firmly in her seat as the shuttle Leonard Cohen matched velocities with the starship and drifted into position along her central axis.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A shiver went through the shuttle's hide as it latched on the starship like a remora to a shark. Patty laid her hand against the glass, a similar shiver rippling her skin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Nanoprocessors along my damaged spinal cord, improving in its functionality; the reflex boast that makes me potentially able to steer this improbable starship.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Having obviously forgiven me for the incident on the Starship, Stevie Wonder turned up one day and took out a snowmobile, insisting on driving it himself. To pre-empt your question: no, I have absolutely no idea how Stevie Wonder successfully piloted a snowmobile through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado without killing himself, or indeed anyone else, in the process, but he did.
~ Elton John
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.
~ Judith Reeves-Stevens
That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.
~ Michael Cunningham
Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.
~ George Takei
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
~ George Takei
Negative energy may seem like the holy grail to a physicist building a starship, but for a nanotechnologist, the Casimir force is so strong at the atomic level that it becomes a nuisance.
~ Michio Kaku
SPACE... it's fucking big. These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the...
~ Steven Erikson
Space—the final frontier… These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.
~ Gene Roddenberry
When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?
~ Suzanne Brockmann