I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

- Jonathan Frakes

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

- Jonathan Frakes

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

- Jonathan Frakes

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

- Jonathan Frakes

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condi…

- Jonathan Frakes

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

- Jonathan Frakes

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

- Jonathan Frakes

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

- Jonathan Frakes

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

- Jonathan Frakes