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For you, Kate, Voyager
was a real trailblazer

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in Star Trek, featuring the
series' first female lead,

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and a captain at that.

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So, can you talk a little
bit about why Janeway

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is still a valuable role
model today in 2020?

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I was overwhelmed initially,
Mica, it happened so fast.

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I only had a few days to get
my wits and find my sea legs,

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which in fact, I did not
find for about six months.

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It was daunting. The technobabble was

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just a spectacular challenge to me

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because I'd always prided
myself on being able

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to endow my, any, character
with nuance and subtlety.

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But that one right out the window,

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just trying to grasp the language itself,

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add to that being the first female

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and the importance of that responsibility.

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And I was really up against
it for a few months,

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until I finally said to myself,

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"You've got to just let it go.

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The audience is going
to come, or it's not."

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You've got to forget the brass.

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The Paramount brass used to
stand there and watch me.

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UPN would come and watch me.

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I don't know, but it translated into

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"They're watching me to wait
to see if I will fail this."

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I was quite nervous about it

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until I just said, "No, no more.

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Stop fooling around with
my hair and my shoes,

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my breasts, my waist, all of it.

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Let me speak the language,

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let me speak it the way
I believe it to be true

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and authentic, and then let's go."

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And I had a remarkable
seven years with these guys.

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It was life altering.

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It really did change everything.

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As it did for these gentlemen, I'm sure.