Happy Birthday Jolene Blalock!

I'm here for the character rather than the va-va or the voom.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

I don't know where to begin with that one... the final episode is... appalling.

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

I looked at that stage and said damn straight it's mine, and I owned it from that moment forward.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

Before one scene we were trying to get my belly button ring out – at one point we had two pairs of pliers on it and I was in agony. And finally the producer sent me to a tattoo shop down the road, so I went there in my ears, wig and a pink bathrobe. No-one gave me a second look in the street and when I walked into the tattoo shop, the guy didn’t even bat an eyelid. He just looked at my pointy ears – and they look very authentic – then started talking about the belly button ring. That’s LA for you.

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.

Thinking about STAR TREK not being on the air for the first time in 18 years is strange. I'm very grateful and fortunate that I was able to be part of this incarnation. It's sad to see it go, but I really believe in my heart of hearts that it's not gone forever.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

Gene Roddenberry had a concept for Star Trek, which was not to be the good guy vs. the bad guy. It was more about characterization, it was about our relationships with each other. And what we can learn from each other, and what we can accomplish together. Send them out to the middle of nowhere and learn from each other, and not only that but learn, like Gene Roddenberry would say, from the polka dotted people. The polka dotted aliens. And that's what I believe Enterprise is doing.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

Of course, I'm full Vulcan, whereas Spock was half human, so I'm a superior species.

Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.

The best sex is being with somebody that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know loves you. You know?

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

My first impression walking onto the set and seeing that bridge ... it is what you would imagine it would be 150 years from now. It's very realistic what they did and compared to the other shows they look like hotel lobbies. They're very nice, very clean carpets, wood paneling. It's like a BMW or Rolls Royce, and ours is sort of like a Hummer.

I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

Vulcans are really freaky nasty. You would never know it. You'd think it would go total missionary. But no, we are freaky nasty, dirty nasty and yeah, funky.

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock. 

I firmly believe ... that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space. And maybe that'll mean that we multiply and just destroy another planet. But you know what? That's mankind. Get used to it. We're not going to change.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.  

I think my parents were high when they named me.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.