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Celebrating Star Trek:
Voyager's 25th anniversary,
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I am delighted to be joined
by the show's illustrious cast
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to talk about their characters' legacies,
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and Voyager's ongoing
impact on both Star Trek
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and the sci-fi community at large.
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Please welcome my next incredible guests,
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Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo,
Robert McNeill, Garrett Wang,
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Tim Russ, and Ethan Phillips.
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Thank you guys for joining me today.
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It's Star Trek Day! Happy
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Star Trek Day, everybody.
Yay,
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happy Star Trek Day.
Yay, happy Star Trek Day.
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You should be complimented
on your blue background.
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It's very, what's the word.
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If you had a starfield
it would be even cooler,
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but the blue by itself is good.
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Thank you, I didn't pick it out,
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my parents picked it out.
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- Well,
then please extend my--
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Compliment them.
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I shall.
It's a good
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visual effects blue.
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It's a good key blue, yeah.
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Exactly.
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It is a good key blue.
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Well, if you guys want to
key something around me,
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like, a star field it'll
be great, but as for now,
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it's just a nice blue. [laughs]
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Well, as I mentioned earlier,
2020 marks the 25 years
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since Star Trek: Voyager
first aired on television.
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So, to start off with all of you guys,
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how does it feel to have reached
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such a significant
milestone for this show?
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I will jump in and say,
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I remember when we first
started on Voyager,
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Paramount invited us to the
taping of a Original Series...
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I want to say it was the 25th
anniversary of the original,
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the premiere of The Original Series.
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It was the 30th anniversary.
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[Robert] Was it the 30th?
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Do you remember that?
Yeah.
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Everyone was dressed up
at Paramount Studios.
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That was the 30th
anniversary of Star Trek.
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I remember thinking, "Wow,
those guys are so old."
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And here we are--
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Yes? Here we are?
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In the same boat.
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- Really a great
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way to get things rolling
there, Robbie, thanks for that.
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- Yeah.
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You're welcome.
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Time is so strangely telescopic.
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I don't feel that we're old.
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I feel that we're the same.
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I feel that we're just as we were then,
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a bunch of nitwits happily
being blasted out of a cannon,
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at least that's how I
felt, and very excited
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and very privileged in my case, of course.
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And I loved each one of you.
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It was just a great thing,
I still feel that way.
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Oh, it looks like we have, hold on.
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Oh, who?
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Somebody would like to
say "hello" really fast.
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Whoa!
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Holy moly.
Look at that!
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There you go. [laughs]
Oh, my gosh.
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You got the wrong room, man.
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You got the wrong show.
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You're down the hall.
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Is it good to see you all.
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So good to see you.
Great to see you.
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Good to see you LeVar, how are you?
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I'm really well, really, really well.
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Garrett, you're having a good hair day.
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Oh, thank you, sir.
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[laughing]
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LeVar you're a part of our show,
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you're a part of our family,
you directed with us.
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Well, when I told him I
was heading up this panel,
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he said that he would
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So good to see you.
I'm so glad you did LeVar.
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Good to see you LeVar.
It's great to see you.
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I love you all.
All right.
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Love you too, buddy.
Love you, too.
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LeVar, please be safe.
You stay safe.
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Take care LeVar.
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Just to pull it back to where we were at,
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I agree with Kate.
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The two and a half decades, honestly,
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it's gone by so quickly.
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I think the beginning, the
premiere of Voyager really,
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for me, and I think for
the rest of my castmates,
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it really does seem like yesterday.
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It doesn't seem like that much
time has gone past at all.
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Well, after a quarter of a century--
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sorry to keep bringing that up.
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The series continues to stay on the radar
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thanks to some video
and streaming services,
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like CBS All Access, and it
seems like new generations
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of fans are discovering
Voyager all the time.
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So, how often do you find new
people are watching the show
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for the very first time, tweeting
at you, letting you know?
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Oh, I've had that experience
a number of times.
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I sometimes wonder how many photographs
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I've signed over the years.
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And I keep thinking, I must
have covered everyone by now.
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But, in fact, it's because new people are
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tuning into the show and watching the show
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for the first time, or they're
having their kids watch
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the show and all of a
sudden there's new fans.
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It really doesn't matter
where-- when somebody
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starts watching Star Trek,
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if they start watching
with the new J.J. movies,
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they get hooked with that,
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and then they start
investigating backwards.
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They start seeing like,
"Oh, okay, let me watch TNG,
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The Original Series, Voyager, Enterprise."
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So, wherever someone enters
into their fandom of Star Trek,
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they then check out everything else,
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so that's why we always have new fans.
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Wonderful thing about Star
Trek staying evergreen
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is that people constantly rewatch it,
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and we remain in their minds
the way we looked 25 years ago.
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So, that's a good thing, you know?
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And we mentioned earlier how important
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the Star Trek family, not only the fandom,
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but the internal family is.
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So, I gotta know, you guys were so excited
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to see each other coming into this Zoom,
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but do you still keep in
touch after all this time?
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Some more than others, but
yes we do, of course we do.
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John Ethan's in New York, I see him there.
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I'm in regular contact with Robbie McNeill
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because we've shared children
together, as you know, Mica.
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Yes.
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We have to, yeah, keep up
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with the salamander children, exactly.
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Roberto, I see you all the time.
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Tim and I probably, what'd we say?
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We text about 50 times a
day for the last five years.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, Ethan and I are
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in touch via text all the time.
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And I see Ethan all the
time when I'm in New York.
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We have a dedicated
breakfast or lunch place,
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and I see Robbie all the time when I can.
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Tim, I don't see enough, but
I still see Tim at events,
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and the same thing with Garrett.
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Garrett and I talk on the
phone quite a bit, or text,
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so I'm in contact with
pretty much everybody
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at one point or another during the year.
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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.
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And there are multiple Roberts today,
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so I'm gonna address
this one to Mr. Picardo.
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Your character was also
very unique to Star Trek
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being a hologram crew member.
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And I wonder if you can explain what
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fascinated you most
about playing The Doctor?
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It was that I didn't have
to obey the rules that most
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any other actor playing
a Starfleet character
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would have to do. Because
he was a new technology.
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Because we didn't quite
know how he would behave.
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He was supposed to be a
willful piece of technology
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that was designed with
emotional sub-routines.
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So he had a bedside manner,
but most of his emotions
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seemed focused on his
experience rather than yours.
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So I was most surprised, I guess,
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to find out that they had this vision
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that he was going to be
really the... like Data,
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but different because
he had a new capability
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Data didn't have, which was supposedly
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to feel emotion and then
to grow emotionally,
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as well as his technical capabilities.
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And also the character
wanted to make himself
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more useful to the cast,
which was a very nice thing
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to play that he wanted
to enhance his worth
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to his crewmates as he grew to
have more feelings for them.
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Well, now I want to
talk about best friends,
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Tom Paris and Harry Kim.
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So Robert, Garrett, your
characters were always
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so much fun to watch together.
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Why do you think those guys had
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such a strong magnetic bond on screen?
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I think Tom and Harry were
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secretly in love with each other.
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That's pretty much the--
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[Garrett laughing]
Secretly?
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What do yo mean secretly?
Secretly?
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I think it was obvious.
[Garrett laughing]
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Well, you know.
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I would say that...
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Garrett and I started
rewatching this series this year
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on a podcast we decided to do
together during quarantine.
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And it's been really fun
for me because I was amazed
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in that pilot episode of how many,
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in so many little subtle ways,
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that relationship was created
in the very first episode,
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by going into Quark's
bar when we were headed
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to the Voyager for the first time.
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And Quark is trying to hustle him
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over some junk rocks or something.
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And Paris comes in--
Lobi crystals.
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Lobi crystals and Paris comes
in and sees what's going on
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and protects him, and then Harry stands up
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for Paris later on to some of the Maquis
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and some of Starfleet, as well.
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When you talking about
duos in Star Trek history,
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you'd be hard pressed to find
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a more popular duo than Tom and Harry.
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Tom and Harry really did make
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a mark in a lot of people's minds.
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And I think part of it is as
individuals, Robbie McNeill
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and myself, if you look
at Chinese astrology,
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the belief is that if
you are four years apart,
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increments of four years
apart-- 4, 8, 12, 16, 24,
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whatever, any increment of four--
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that is the best relationship,
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whether it's business,
personal, or you name it.
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That's the best relationship.
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Robbie is exactly four
years older than me.
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He is year of the dragon.
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I am year of the monkey.
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Monkeys and dragons are
historically very good friends,
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so I think that also
lent to this partnership
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being so well received by the fandom.
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All the seeds of that... My memory was,
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oh, it was seven years of this growing
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relationship where these
characters that blossomed
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over such a long period of time.
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But in many ways, I think the
writers created such wonderful
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characters in the very
first episode we ever did.
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The seeds of what the doctor became,
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the backstory of Neelix and
his relationship with Kes
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and how strong that was,
and Kate's commitment
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to her crew and being
responsible and the relationship
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that Tuvok and the captain
had, all of these things
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were so beautifully done
in that first episode.
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Don't you guys think that the
intensity of the situation
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lent itself to forming
relationships quickly
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and deepening them quickly?
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I don't know if you felt as I did,
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but I was constantly on tenterhooks.
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It was the language, it
was the hitting the marks,
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and the stuff on the bridge
was so diabolically difficult
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that I'd often just lean on you guys,
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look at you for support.
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And it worked, it really did.
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And that franchise was at
its peak in the mid-nineties.
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When we came on, Next Gen was so big
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and DS9 was in the air and
the movies were coming back.
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And this juggernaut of a franchise,
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Star Trek as a franchise, was huge.
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And I do agree with you, Kate,
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I think we all felt a sense
of terror on some level.
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That we were jumping into this thing
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that was so big and cresting.
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To Tim, I would really love to know
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how you approached playing the
resident Vulcan on Voyager,
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because it's such a unique
opportunity getting to play
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that sort of measured
performance in Star Trek.
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What was that like for you personally,
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and did you want to differentiate
Tuvok from the other
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Vulcan characters that we've seen?
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And my character actually, obviously,
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had a well-known history in terms of what
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Nimoy put together and some of the other
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characters that had been portrayed.
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So, it was important to me to be able
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to come in at the ground
level with a solid foundation
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of what this character,
what the walk and talk is
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for this character,
and it had to be right.
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It had to be perfect.
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I put sort of an amalgam of
the other Vulcan characters
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that I had seen over the years as a basis
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for him just to get him off the road,
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or off the runway rather, for the series.
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His character was 100% Vulcan,
where Spock's was only half,
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so I kinda added that element
into it a little, as well,
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A little bit more staunch,
a little bit more stoic
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because I wanted to make sure--
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I was attuned to the fact
that the fans might be
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also watching with a
very keen eye as to see
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how that character was portrayed.
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And I made every effort
to make him as Vulcan,
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if you will, as I possibly could.
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Now at the end of the series,
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we got to see Voyager return,
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but we didn't really get
to see what happened next.
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So Ethan, I wanna know for you,
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what's your personal headcanon
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for what Neelix would be up to right now.
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He jumped on an asteroid,
he married a gal named Dexa
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and they had a son named Brax.
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I suspect he opened a restaurant,
maybe McNeelix, possibly.
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I know he had seven other sons.
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Did you say McNeelix?
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He had seven sons.
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Orx, Yax, Grax, Pox-
No, Robbie, Ol' McNeelix.
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Oh.
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Oh, are you goin' into
Ol' McNeelix's today?
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[laughing]
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I think that's not the only time you got
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a cease and desist from
another franchise is it?
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[laughing]
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I don't know, I think
he's probably very happy,
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I think he's very wealthy.
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I know he divorced Dexa.
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Stop it, Ethan, stop it.
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[Robert McNeill] He's got a whole--
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I think Ethan has
actually written a couple,
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like an eight-part novel
series about Neelix
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and what happened to him.
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You know, I was not expecting
all of that for an answer
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but I'm glad we asked this question.
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Neelix was a happy guy.
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Neelix was a guy who got on that ship
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and had lost his entire family,
all his race, and he was,
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I guess he had abandonment issues,
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but he wanted so much to be accepted.
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He wanted so much to have a home
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that that's why he was a little,
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sometimes a little needy, but
I think that stemmed from it.
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That's how I looked at it.
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I loved you, the captain loved you.
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You annoyed the hell out of me.
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- Who doesn't? [laughs]
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[laughing]
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That said, I think that he found a home,
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he found a good home. And
yet, at the same time,
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I think it was great that he left
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because there was nothing more for him
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to gain from those people.
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They had a life to live
back on Earth, he didn't.
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He had to go someplace
with his own people.
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And John Ethan, do you
remember that you were actually
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the first cast member to leave,
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and that really took
it out of me that day.
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We gave you a big clap.
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I think there was champagne.
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Everybody came down, but
it really hit me hard.
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That was hard to do the next two weeks.
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Yeah, it was a bit sad.
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When you're with people for seven years,
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we shot 10 months a year, we
didn't have a long hiatus.
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We were working all the
time for seven years.
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And you get very close,
not just for the cast,
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but to the crew, to all
the ancillary people.
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And when I walked down that
hallway at the end, that last,
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they had everybody, the
crew, in Star Trek uniform,
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so when I was walking down the hall,
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I wasn't just saying
goodbye to my castmates,
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I was saying good bye to everybody
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who worked on that series.
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It was very emotional.
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I feel like when we
finished our seven-year run,
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at least for me, if I'm being honest,
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I was thrilled that it
was ending on one level.
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Like I was ready to move
on, if I'm being honest.
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I was like, "This is seven
years and I want to move on."
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And I think what I realize now,
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all these years later,
is how lucky we were.
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And if I could go back there and have
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another year with these guys,
I would really treasure it.
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Would you do it?
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Would you do it?
Good people.
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Good people. Yeah, absolutely.
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Great.
Absolutely, which is,
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honestly, the perfect segue
into our final question
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to close our little time together out.
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For Kate, I want to know,
in honor of Star Trek Day,
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what does it mean to you
to be a part of this family
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that spans over half a century
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and is still going strong
after all this time?
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It means that it was my moment
of real creative kismet.
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I will return to being
the first female captain
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as something far beyond my wildest dreams.
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And yet as it unfolded and happened to me,
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I was aware of the
privilege, of the magnitude,
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of the size, the universal
size of this thing.
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And then, to add to that,
the friendships that unfolded
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as a result of the casting on
Voyager and the seven years.
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I would say that, although
at the time I thought,
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"Oh, my god. Am I going to survive this?"
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I will tell you now,
that just like Robbie,
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I could step back.
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It was that good, it was that honorable,
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and it was that fine.
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A life altering decade, yes.
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That was so beautiful.
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What a perfect bow, what a perfect bow
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for this beautiful present
that we've all shared today.
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So thank you guys all
so much for joining me,
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and it has been a real
pleasure talking to you
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on this momentous anniversary
for Star Trek Voyager.
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Mica, thank you.
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This has been a great pleasure.
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Yes, thank you.
Wonderful to see
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all you guys.
And wonderful
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to see you guys.
Wonderful to see you guys.
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You and your dad in the frame together.
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Yeah!
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He needed to come say, "Hello."
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And if everybody watching
wants to catch up on Voyager,
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you can stream all seven seasons
right now on CBS All Access
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scientific advancements,
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all very Star Trek things.
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So everyone thank you again for chatting.
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I hope you'll have a
wonderful star Trek day.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
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Take care guys, have a good one.
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Happy Star Trek Day.
Bye everybody.
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Buh-bye.
Okay, bye.