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<v ->Hi, there.</v>

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This is Dominic Keating.

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I play Lieutenant Malcolm Reed on Enterprise.

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What do you wanna know?

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I guess as a child,

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I grew up watching the original series,

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I'm gonna date myself now,

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'cause I originally saw it in black and white.

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And I nagged my dad rotten,

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to get me one of the first colored TV's in our street.

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I was blown away when I watched Star Trek in color,

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and Spock shirt was blue.

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That was a big revelation to me.

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So that was the first time,

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was a big thrill to meet those guys,

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for real, you know.

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Thirty, forty years later.

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(laughing)

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Back then in the sixties, in the late sixties,

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you know, this was ground breaking TV.

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We just didn't have anything like this,

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it was adventure, space.

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You know I remember, it was right after my eighth birthday,

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that the guys came back from the moon,

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it was pretty thrilling stuff for an eight year old.

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So this show was encapsulated all of that.

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And it had the sort of,

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horror stuff thrown in as well

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and you know for a young eight year old also.

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I remember the chiffon clad ladies, Kirk's Brigade

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were my first foray into erotica.

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(laughing)

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And I had it all, I really did,

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that was a big thrill,

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I may not been in Los Angeles about seven years,

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knocked on a lot of doors,

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and I had some successes.

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I had a couple of recurring roles by now

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and some guest stars

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but this was, you know,

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(clicking tongue sound)

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when these guys came calling

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I knew this was the gravy train,

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and god bless it was good to get on board.

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It was a hell of a ride.

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We were slightly robbed not to get the seven years,

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like everyone else but nevertheless,

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you know, they were healthier days,

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they really were solid days.

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We were very lucky to have Scott,

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as our number one.

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Not all Hollywood sets are quite so lovely

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and warm and friendly.

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And he made those years joyous, he really did.

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We had three main sets,

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on stage nine,

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which was effectually known as Planet Hell.

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You'd go in there on a Monday morning

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and they'd, you know, they crashed the comet

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from the week before.

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And suddenly you were in this jungle waterfall setting

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the size of a football field,

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with running waterfalls and lakes

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and it was incredible.

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We got to play around in that.

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So for all the fascia soon at Planet Hell,

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it was a real playground.

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I remember complaining to Scott one time,

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when I was in the EV suit

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which was the mother of all costumes.

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My heart used to sink a little bit

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when I'd read the script and it casually said,

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"They step out in their EV suits".

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Oh god, how many pages.

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(claps)

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but I remember saying to Scott, you know,

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god just put me in a nice tailored suit in a court room.

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When you'd be bored out of your minds on me.

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(laughs)

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So, yeah.

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They were great years.

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Yeah, I got to introduce the Phase Pistol, you know,

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in the Star Trek law,

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the captain was going on in an away mission,

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and yeah, I had the case and opened it up,

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he pulled it out and I said,

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"They have two settings captain, stun and kill.

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It would be best not to confuse them".

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I'll get better than that really.

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(suspenseful music playing)

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Ah, our new weapons.

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They're called Phase Pistols,

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they have two settings,

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stun and kill.

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It will be best not to confuse them.

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<v ->I based Malcolm on a younger version of myself.</v>

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I come from an army background.

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My grandfather on my mother's side

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was a Brigadier General in the British Army.

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He fought in both World Wars.

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He would've been knighted

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and he always said he didn't get on with King George enough

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to get knighthood.

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But he was made an OBE,

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which is an Order of the British Empire.

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Did have aspirations as a seventeen year old.

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At my boarding school to maybe go into the forces.

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And I went to stay with a Scottish Lagoon Guards,

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for seven or eight weeks,

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in a summer holiday.

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To go and test the waters

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and realize that it really wasn't for me.

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I liked all the sort of cowboys and Indians,

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but shooting the machine guns

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and I got to drive a tank.

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First vehicle I ever drove was a Chieftain tank,

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seventeen and a half years old,

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I crashed it.

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On Osnabruck high street, in Germany by the Rhine.

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Probably were thinking,

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let seventeen and a half year old

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drive that tank down the high street.

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But yeah I came home from that (indistinct).

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Had to sort of pluck up the courage to tell my mum

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that it really wasn't the life for me.

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But that's who Malcolm's based on,

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the young version of myself.

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