WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:06.142 Hello, I'm Doug Jones and I play Commander Saru. 2 00:00:09.729 --> 00:00:14.192 My first point of contact with 'Star Trek' was 3 00:00:14.192 --> 00:00:17.946 when it first starting airing in 1966. 4 00:00:17.946 --> 00:00:20.281 I was six years old 5 00:00:20.281 --> 00:00:21.241 born in 1960. 6 00:00:21.241 --> 00:00:24.244 So, I was watching it on network television with my family 7 00:00:24.244 --> 00:00:26.413 uh, at it's birth. 8 00:00:26.413 --> 00:00:30.917 So I've lived with it all my life pretty much and so to 9 00:00:30.917 --> 00:00:34.254 finally, after years, after 33 years in a career of 10 00:00:34.254 --> 00:00:36.589 wearing rubber makeup, and playing aliens, and many 11 00:00:36.589 --> 00:00:40.218 films and TV shows - Star Trek, not yet, not yet, not yet 12 00:00:40.218 --> 00:00:42.720 not..ahhh. Discovery. 13 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:45.348 So I've finally found a home with Star Trek 14 00:00:45.348 --> 00:00:46.391 after all these years. 15 00:00:46.391 --> 00:00:48.101 After I thought I was passed my prime too. 16 00:00:48.101 --> 00:00:51.521 I think, if I'm not mistaken, and don't quote me on this, 17 00:00:51.521 --> 00:00:55.066 but, um, I think, it's worth fact checking. 18 00:00:55.066 --> 00:00:59.112 I think I am the oldest series regular to begin 19 00:00:59.112 --> 00:01:01.573 a series with Star Trek. Ever. In the history 20 00:01:01.573 --> 00:01:03.700 of the franchise. I think I am. 21 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:06.953 When we started, it was 2000, I was 56. 22 00:01:06.953 --> 00:01:08.997 So, worth checking out. 23 00:01:08.997 --> 00:01:11.249 Anyone geeks out when you present it with 24 00:01:11.249 --> 00:01:14.127 "Would you like to be in this Star Trek series?" 25 00:01:15.753 --> 00:01:16.838 (laughing) 26 00:01:16.838 --> 00:01:17.755 Right, that's what happened. 27 00:01:17.755 --> 00:01:19.340 So yes, I did geek out, I did fan out. 28 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:23.636 And my favorite thing on any Star Trek ship 29 00:01:23.636 --> 00:01:28.141 any USS vessel, in the star fleet is the Beama 30 00:01:28.141 --> 00:01:30.477 I wanted to be transported. 31 00:01:30.477 --> 00:01:33.521 So when I saw the transporter room on the shinshow 32 00:01:33.521 --> 00:01:37.775 and then discovery. I was like, uh, this, this is it! 33 00:01:37.775 --> 00:01:40.778 I can't wait for my turn to take my first trip 34 00:01:40.778 --> 00:01:42.071 beaming somewhere. 35 00:01:42.071 --> 00:01:44.532 And I have now. Many of times! 36 00:01:44.532 --> 00:01:47.076 Well, some fan questions from the twitter 37 00:01:47.076 --> 00:01:48.703 let's have a look and see what 38 00:01:48.703 --> 00:01:51.039 (humming) 39 00:01:51.039 --> 00:01:53.458 If you could learn any Star Trek alien language 40 00:01:53.458 --> 00:01:57.712 fluently, in an instant, what would it be and why? 41 00:01:57.712 --> 00:02:01.090 Kelpien, because I am a Kelpien, and when they give me 42 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:03.635 lines in my home language it takes me days 43 00:02:03.635 --> 00:02:07.180 to learn one simple line because uh, it's a brand 44 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.557 new language and they're writing it as we need it 45 00:02:09.557 --> 00:02:10.391 (laughing) 46 00:02:10.391 --> 00:02:12.560 and I wish I just kinda knew the whole 47 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.104 thing already, that would save me a lot of time.