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I trained to become an actor.

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I'd gone to college at PLU in Tacoma on

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a

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football scholarship

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and played for a couple years and realized that

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that wasn't

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going to pan out for me.

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So I needed something else to do and I

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found myself auditioning for a play

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in the theater Department.

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There was a cute girl who said why don't

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you audition for a play? And I said sure

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and that was

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an epiphany

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my first audition.

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I realized right then and there that I

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To be an actor

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and then I realized also pretty quickly that I

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wanted to be trained.

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So

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I went to

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the University of missouri-kansas

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City

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for their actor training program and I got my

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Master's Degree

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and then

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moved to New York

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acted there for a couple years

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and then moved here

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and

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four years later found myself on Enterprise.

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My experience in the casting process for Enterprise was

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was long.

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I think I had the longest

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drawn-out experience.

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If anybody on

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in our cast

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I had

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during pilot season

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they send you out a whole bunch

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and I had

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a series of three audition days three different projects

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in one day and

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I'm not very good at

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acting unless I know my lines

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and I

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had gone into this

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audition for

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prize

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third one of that day

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and walked in and and just punted it just

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just screw the audition didn't do a very good

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job at all.

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And I know when I do a good job,

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and I know when I stink and I stunk

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and

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Ron surma

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one of the casting directors for the show

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said, okay

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great.

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Can you come back in an hour?

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I thought well

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great.

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I'm going to be warmed over turd an hour

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gray.

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I'm going to come back into those gonna

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be any better.

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So I came back in an hour.

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And for some reason they brought me back again

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or this time.

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I came back for my third audition

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and I had some time to prepare.

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And I believe Brannon

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Braga was in the room

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with

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the rest of the people

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involved

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a nailed that one

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and then I came in for a fourth audition

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and I nailed that one and then I came

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in for a fifth audition

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and

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I thought I nailed it and they came back

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with that.

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They didn't get enough

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all

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out of me as the character of trip.

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I thought it was done.

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I thought I didn't get it and

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I thought they were going to you know reissue

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the the part out to the breakdowns and have

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people come back in and I was checking that

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to see if that was occurring and it wasn't

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so I went off to Mexico for the weekend

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to basically drown my sorrows and forget about it.

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And when I came back there was still no

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answer.

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They said I was didn't say I was out

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of the running or anything, but they but they

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weren't sure that they were going to cast me

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and I came back and

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and

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sag rules stipulate you had a week

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to tell the actor if they have the job

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or not, and

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they were going over that and

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and finally

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My manager weaseled the information out of somebody that

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before I got the official word that

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I can't tell you anything, but you're going to

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sleep well tonight.

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I don't think anybody can be

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particularly as aware of

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the size of

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the

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fan base and the interest that they have in

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the characters and in the show, so

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I had also never seen trekkies and I'd never

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seen Galaxy Quest until I got the job.

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So

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and once I did see those and going to

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my first convention

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until you're actually at one and getting that surge

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of energy from the audience that

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that's for you.

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I don't think anybody would have any real real

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clear idea about really

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how

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How impressive

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that fanbase can be?

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I grew up on the original

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series,

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you know, you come home from school and the

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reruns and Beyond

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and I'm sure I've seen every episode of the

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original one.

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I was never

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I start Trek fan as it were I didn't

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I've seen all the Next Generation stuff.

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Since I've gotten the job

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Honestly by the time

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that stuff was all coming out or I was

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even aware that next generation was around.

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I was in the throes of acting school

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and

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not only do you not watch Star Trek.

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You don't watch TV.

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You don't have time to do anything

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except learn your,

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you know, salic law speech from

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Shakespeare,

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so

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I've become a bigger fan of the show having

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been on it, but that's because

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I've been exposed to Anna.

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pretty damn good series

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Yeah, it's the one where?

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The

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the lady

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whines up being this

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salt

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sucking

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alien who was in love with

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was it Kirk or Spock? But also had this

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other other other

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other husband around I thought that was that was

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always stuck out for me

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and then the other one that's always stuck out

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for me is when they start, you know

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dancing like goats.

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Hey,

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that's because that's funny.