Where do you get the ideas from?

Yeah, so much new knowledge is being generated every day and every scientist who is working is a specialist. There are very few generalists in science any more. There is such a tremendous amount of research going on in so many fields, it�s a matter of just keeping up.

I try to read about 10 or 12 different science journals per week. I just sort of skim through them, seeing what�s going on, what the new ideas and looking for terminology and technical language. For example, what are the terms that are showing up in cosmology or in planetary geology that could be fun to interject into a Star Trek script?

Plus, we invent new terms too because certainly in the next 400 years, in the far future represented by Star Trek, a lot of new language is going to have to be invented for the new discoveries that are going to be made. So we wouldn�t be doing our job well if we didn�t invent some new language from time to time.