Judith Reeves-Stevens > Quotes

“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, Prime Directive

“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.”
― Judith Reeves-Stevens, Millennium: Fall of Terok Nor/War of the Prophets/Inferno

“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?”
― Judith Reeves-Stevens, Millennium: Fall of Terok Nor/War of the Prophets/Inferno

“Betazoids could not form empathic or telepathic impressions of Ferengi,”
― Judith Reeves-Stevens, Federation

“Oh, I’m a great believer in IDIC, Commander: Infinite diversity in infinite combination. The beauty of it is that nobody’s wrong. Logic, Battle. They’re all facets of the same thing. As if the true reality of the universe, whatever final answers there are to be discovered—if they can be discovered—is like a hyperdimensional string. Look at it one way it’s an electron. Another way and it’s a proton. Yet another one you can see a veteran. But it’s all the same thing, just different ways of looking is all.”
― Judith Reeves-Stevens, The Fall of Terok Nor