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Alice, Brent, and Patrick,
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your three characters share
the pivotal scene of the movie,
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when Picard is willing and ready
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to give himself back to the Borg.
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Right before Picard and Data team up,
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we find out Data's really on our side
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and they sabotage the Queen.
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It's such an incredible
moment in the film.
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It's such an incredible moment
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in the history of the Star Trek franchise.
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I would love for you to talk
about that scene in particular
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and the other scenes that you
had together, the three of you
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and Alice, I would love it
if you would start us off.
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It was a wonderful scene
because it was the first moment,
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I mean, if I talk about it
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from the point of view of an actor,
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in all the build up we've had,
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it's the first moment
that the Queen and Picard
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actually come face to face
with their shared history.
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Just as an actor, the arc
of the writing of the scene
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was wonderful because it's
an extraordinary journey
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through the scene from where
it starts to where it ends.
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Just a beautifully written scene.
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And great to do, because
it's one of those scenes
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that does itself, if you let
it, if you don't mess with it.
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And I think we did it
quite late in the shoot.
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So I think that there
was a sense that everyone
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had really settled into the story.
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Was this shot over, that sequence,
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was that shot over several days?
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Was it in a day? Do you remember?
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We worked an 18 hour day.
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Wow.
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It was 18 off, 18 working and nine off,
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18 working and nine off, so frankly,
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by that time, I was just floating.
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I had lost track of day or night,
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because we literally worked
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18 on, nine off, 18 on, nine off.
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So day and night got
scrambled, which was great
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because that was like the
Borg headspace, at that point.
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I was just floating, which is
a wonderful feeling. [laughs]
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It feels like that is
energetically appropriate
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for the Queen, as well,
because you are at a point
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where it seems like
everything's going her way,
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everything that she has pushed
for this moment to represent
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is going to happen, everything
is going according to plan.
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And then Data says, "Ah,
actually," it turns out not.
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Talk about that moment, Brent.
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Oh, well, you know,
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it was an incredibly
satisfying thing to play.
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I haven't seen the film in a long time,
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but I don't remember, did
Picard, Picard didn't know?
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He thought I was gone, too,
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or Data?
Yeah, yeah.
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We all thought, the
audience thinks you're gone.
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Everyone thinks you're gone.
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So does the Queen!
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You know, you knew that should
would have a blind spot.
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I mean, she gets hoist on
her own petard, doesn't she?
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That's right.
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You know what?
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It was such a satisfying
script all the way around.
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I mean, that moment, of
course was wonderful to play
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and climactic, but I
thought the whole script
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was unusually satisfying for all of us.
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We all got to play things
that were a dream to do,
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and they all landed so nicely.
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And even the denouement to that scene,
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the scene after Patrick or Picard
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kills the Borg Queen,
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or pulls her down-- or Data
pulls her down into the,
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whatever the substance
is that destroys her.
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But the sequence,
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the denouement sequence
with Picard and Data,
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when Picard snaps the spine.
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And we talk about Data having been tempted
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in that moment,
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and was he ever really on her side?
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And just that beautiful
line that I don't remember
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the specific number, but it had to do
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with a very infinitesimal amount of time
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that he actually considered it.
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It's like, it's like 0.68 seconds,
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I think is the number,
something like that.
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Just a beautifully written piece,
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but Rick and Brannon and Ron just did
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a fantastic job with the script.
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After he says, 0.68 seconds, he says,
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"Which is an eternity for an android."
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For an android, yeah, exactly.