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For Most People, Religion Is Nothing More Than A Substitute For A Malfunctioning Brain. If People Need Religion, Ignore Them And Maybe They Will Ignore You, And You Can Go On With Your Life. It Wasn't Until I Was Beginning To Do Star Trek That The Subject Of Religion Arose. What Brought It Up Was That People Were Saying That I Would Have A Chaplain On Board The Enterprise. I Replied, "no, We Don't.

There Was Much To Put Out Of His Mind. Why Was It Difficult To Forget Chekov's Astonished Delight Which Greeted Him At The Command Airlock When He Boarded. And On The Bridge - Kirk! The Mere Name Made Spock Groan Inwardly As He Remembered What It Had Cost Him To Turn Away From That Welcome. T'hy'la!

The Network Told Me To Get Rid Of Number One, The Woman First Lieutenant, And Also Get Rid Of 'that Martian Fellow'... Meaning, Of Course, Spock. I Knew I Couldn't Keep Both, So I Gave The Stoicism Of The Female Officer To Spock, And Married The Actress Who Played Number One. Thank God It Wasn't The Other Way Around. I Mean Leonard's Cute, But...

If This Is Your God, He's Not Very Impressive. He Has So Many Psychological Problems; He's So Insecure. He Demands Worship Every Seven Days. He Goes Out And Creates Faulty Humans And Then Blames Them For His Own Mistakes. He's A Pretty Poor Excuse For A Supreme Being.

It Is The Struggle Itself That Is Most Important. We Must Strive To Be More Than We Are. It Does Not Matter That We Will Not Reach Our Ultimate Goal. The Effort Itself Yields Its Own Reward.