Starship Quotes

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. (Paul Kantner)
The House of Fantasy is built of stone and wood and furnished in High Medieval. Its people travel by horse and galley, fight with sword and spell and battle-axe, communicate by palantir or raven, and break bread with elves and dragons. The House of Science Fiction is built of duralloy and plastic and furnished in Faux Future. Its people travel by starship and aircar, fight with nukes and tailored germs, communicate by ansible and laser, and break protein bars with aliens. The House of Horror is built of bone and cobwebs and furnished in Ghastly Gothick. Its people travel only by night, fight with anything that will kill messily, communicate in screams and shrieks and gibbers, and sip blood with vampires and werewolves. View quote
George R. R. Martin
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor. View quote
Neal Stephenson
Here we are, sixty something human minds. We've been migrated-while still awake-right out of our own heads using an amazing combination of nanotechnology and electron spin resonance mapping, and we're now running as software in an operating system designed to virtualize multiple physics models and provide a simulation of reality that doesn't let us go mad from sensory deprivation! And this whole package is about the size of a fingertip, crammed into a starship the size of your grandmother's old Walkman, in orbit around a brown dwarf just over three light-years from home, on its way to plug into a network router created by incredibly ancient alien intelligences, and you can tell me that the idea of a fundamental change in the human condition is nonsense? View quote
Charles Stross
Oh yeah, 'Starship Troopers' was one of the best experiences of my life, and I made some lifelong friends. View quote
Jake Busey
I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship. View quote
Scott Bakula
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. View quote
Scott Bakula
If we had a starship, we could move near a black hole, stay there for a half hour and then come out. Outside hundreds of years could have gone. So we could... come away from the black hole into the far future easily. View quote
Carlo Rovelli
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.' Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string. View quote
Neal Stephenson
The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields. ... They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power. (Neal Stephenson)
Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
Do you know what I need? A hammer built out of a starship. It just seems practical. Something like that would have dozens of uses around the home. All of them needlessly apocolyptic, probably, but when you've got a doom hammer, every problem is meaningless once the interstellar dust settles. View quote
Brian Clevinger
The old man was sad as he sat on his porch. He knew so little of the Great Purpose. Why must his seed fling itself starward? He knew that it must - but he lacked a reason. His grandchildren played in the twilight, played space-games, although there was not yet a starship on the planet. View quote
Walter M. Miller, Jr.