Science & Tech Quote by Rene Auberjonois

There’s a quiet flex in Auberjonois’s delight: he’s not praising Star Trek as a sealed-off fandom object, but as a gateway drug to bigger ideas. Coming from an actor who spent years inside one of pop culture’s most codified universes, the line reads like a refusal to be trapped by the franchise label. He’s signaling breadth. Yes, he’s proud of the work, but he’s prouder of what the work recruits you into.

The phrasing matters. “I love the fact” is fan language, not press-junket polish; it’s an emotional tell that he’s talking about audience behavior, not brand management. The pivot - “not only... but” - widens the lens from Trek’s particular mythology to science fiction as a mode: speculation, social metaphor, ethical stress tests. Then he tacks on “and science,” collapsing the usual hierarchy where “real science” is serious and “sci-fi” is escapism. He’s defending the genre as adjacent to inquiry, not opposed to it.

Contextually, this lands in the late-20th-century moment when Star Trek fandom was both massive and routinely patronized. Actors often get asked to validate the obsession or apologize for it. Auberjonois chooses a third move: he dignifies the obsession by reframing it as curiosity. The subtext is generous and a little strategic: don’t just remember me as Odo, remember what Odo helped you practice - wondering, testing reality, and taking imagination seriously.