When people started putting you on the front cover did you want to run and hide?

I could never quite make sense of it. There are several books that I have upstairs - the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain�s chair.