Tag: Star Trek

Airmanship Quotes

Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Flying Machines

We live in an amazing age, we can fly airplanes. Quote is Starfleet Captain Picard talking to Commander Riker, in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode ‘Booby Trap’. Set in the year 2366.

Airmanship Quotes

Risk is Our Business

“Risk is our business” ~ Captain James T. Kirk, starship Enterprise. In Star Trek Season 2, episode 22. First aired 9 Feb 1968. It’s … Kirk … and … a bit … cheesy.  But he captures some of the difference between safety, static, and risk, active. If safety was our business we would never fly. Risk management is our business. …