For you, Kate, Voyager was a real trailblazer
in Star Trek, featuring the series' first female lead,
and a captain at that.
So, can you talk a little bit about why Janeway
is still a valuable role model today in 2020?
I was overwhelmed initially, Mica, it happened so fast.
I only had a few days to get my wits and find my sea legs,
which in fact, I did not find for about six months.
It was daunting. The technobabble was
just a spectacular challenge to me
because I'd always prided myself on being able
to endow my, any, character with nuance and subtlety.
But that one right out the window,
just trying to grasp the language itself,
add to that being the first female
and the importance of that responsibility.
And I was really up against it for a few months,
until I finally said to myself,
"You've got to just let it go.
The audience is going to come, or it's not."
You've got to forget the brass.
The Paramount brass used to stand there and watch me.
UPN would come and watch me.
I don't know, but it translated into
"They're watching me to wait to see if I will fail this."
I was quite nervous about it
until I just said, "No, no more.
Stop fooling around with my hair and my shoes,
my breasts, my waist, all of it.
Let me speak the language,
let me speak it the way I believe it to be true
and authentic, and then let's go."
And I had a remarkable seven years with these guys.
It was life altering.
It really did change everything.
As it did for these gentlemen, I'm sure.