Are there specific things on Star Trek that have influenced your programme making?

Roddenberry was creating something that was absolutely new and original, and was really trying to do something based on science, on the research that was available at the time. If you think about the design of the Enterprise, it wasn�t aerodynamic. Everything we�d seen before Star Trek had the cigar shaped aerodynamic spaceship. His research showed that it didn�t need to be aerodynamic, and this was long before we saw the Lunar Module land on the Moon, where we had a touchstone from real life.

I thought it was incredibly bold of him to go with what was a really wonderful design, an exotic design, which wasn�t sleek and sexy. What I find interesting is that every generation of Star Trek since then has actually made the Enterprise�s lines sleeker and more sexy, until you get to the Voyager, which is a terrific looking ship, but flies in the face of what Roddenberry did in the mid 60s.