Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.
Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.
I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.
I wasn't onstage projecting to the back row. I was acting for the lens, which was right in front of me. I learnt a lot from that job.
I would say to others in show business is: Think of your last bad review. What could possibly be worse than that?
I'm not into debunking or ridiculing, but I realize that the field is littered with hoaxers and charlatans. And why is that? What can we do to change that?
I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.
In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.
It was a while before I actually went to a convention, but when I finally did I was totally overwhelmed by the people's reactions.
It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.
It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
It's like the old joke about there were more members of the FBI in the Communist Party than there were Communists. It's laughable, because most ufology is junk. So why are they keeping on it?
My mother gets a little frightened for my safety, since some who have spoken out claim to have received threats. But they don't really care about it.
Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.
Of course, the technical quality of the show was spectacular. The TNG sets were some of the finest I'd ever worked on. Gene Roddenberry was still in charge back then and it was a thrill to meet him.
People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.
Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely.
The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.
The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching "Ben Hur" at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
They really do identify with Barclay because he has difficulties. He's not the super perfect Starfleet Officer you often see in Star Trek and the audiences loves him because of that.
They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
This is a scientist, but he wasn't making an inquiry. This was an attempt to debunk. But why debunk something that is so patently stupid?
This is simply a belief - it's speculation. There's no reason to be afraid of it.
This kind of speculation is healthy. It's like H.G. Wells - if you go back and look at his work, he is remarkably accurate in everything he predicted.
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.
'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'
We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
When I saw the rushes the next day, that was it. I was humiliated. I thought, 'if that's the sort of actor I am, then I'm a complete fraud.'
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
Dwight's wife, Wendy, also appeared on "The A-Team," as a veterinarian in the episode "Bounty".
Dwight's wife Wendy now has her own therapy service.
Dwight now does a lot of videogame voiceover work, such as portraying salesman O'aka XXIII in Final Fantasy X.
Dwight is married to former actress Wendy Fulton and has one daughter named Ava.
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