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Madam President.

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Madam President.

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[Rillak] Welcome.

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I am so pleased that you've come.

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One of the reasons I love Star Trek

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is that it is not one thing.

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It is so many different shows

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and it's so many
different vantage points.

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It has this idealized
notion of what can be

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but a very grounded understanding

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of how hard the work will
will be to get there.

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And what has been so remarkable
about every iteration

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of the show is that they
take that same construct

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but they do it so differently
and so well

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that you never get
bored with the journey.

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It's very special to me to
get to welcome you home.

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The Discovery crew meeting
the president is a big deal

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because it finishes an arc that began

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at the beginning of Season 3.

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The Federation and Starfleet

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haven't been on Earth
for a hundred years.

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It was incredibly well
plotted out by Michelle

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and Alex to know that we
would get to this moment.

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United Earth is ready right
now to rejoin the Federation.

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That kind of means, well,

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Federation is back, it's whole again.

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- Captain, may I have a word?
- Of course.

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I'm so grateful to her for
gracing us with her presence

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and for the writers for
getting her in there.

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We knew that she was a fan of the show

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and I had read an interview
with her at some point

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where she was talking
about her love of Star Trek

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and her love of Discovery,
specifically in Burnham.

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And we reached out to her people

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and were like we wanna
just ask about this.

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And she's so lovely and
was so excited about it

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and genuinely excited to get to do it.

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And it was just the neatest thing.

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So I went to
performing arts high school.

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It was nothing like this.

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So, I mean, I've been very
lucky to get to sit in a chair

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and have someone do my hair
and my makeup

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in ways I wouldn't have imagined.

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I'm not wearing prosthetics.

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I don't get new ears or a new forehead

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but my hair is different.

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And then I got to be
outfitted for my uniform

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and that was just an
extraordinary experience.

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And I get a communicator

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which I'm going to probably
sneak into my pocket.

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They give such care to how
they craft spaces and worlds.

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Whatever the story was, I
wanted to be a part of it

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because watching Michael
Burnham come into her power

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as a captain, watching this
hardy crew reclaim itself

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not only in a new era,
but in a new space,

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that is so reminiscent
of what they remembered,

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but so different.

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That to me, speaks of why we
do the work we do in politics.

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It's about giving people hope
and giving them a better life

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and creating this vision
of what is possible.

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And so regardless of the role
that I was gonna get to play

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I wanted to be a part of it.

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There's a lot of work to do.

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Are you ready for that?

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I am.

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Let's get to it.