-: Very human guy, he's very emotional,
very much more in the vein of Kirk,
which is again, how, when they pitched this idea to me,
that's what they were talking about for the captain.
And, but very heart-on-sleeve,
flies in the face of, you know,
authority and everything else.
And I think he's gonna be a lot of fun.
I think he's got a lot of...
The challenge is to give him enough dimension
and enough place to go
so that if we're lucky enough to be around for a few years,
then I'll have things to, you know,
to keep discovering and keep finding with him.
So, and I think, I think he's kind of evolving nicely.
This character is a Starfleet brat.
He grew up in the system.
His lifelong dream has been
to captain and pilot a ship like this.
The fact that he gets to be the first one
is a great stroke of fortune for him.
So, he is fulfilling a dream.
Now whether that, you know, permeates the entire show,
that each character is, or whatever, but he is...
being the first group of humans to go, really go,
out into space with an idea of peaceful exploration.
Without giving away too much in the pilot,
we're given an opportunity to finally go out into space
to return someone who ended up on Earth
who wasn't supposed to be there.
So the notion is that we're just heading out
to do this one mission,
and how that evolves into how we end up staying out there,
it has a much more of a temporary feel to it than...
There's not a big five-year plan
or seven-year mission that we start out with.
It's, again, the whole thing is a much more improvised feel.
And so we don't know, we may be back, we're not...
We don't come back at the end of each hour back to Earth,
but we may...
I don't think there's anything that's gonna keep us
from coming back to Earth if needed.
Yeah, I think that's the great excitement
about this new series is that
because we're the first people going out at this warp level
so we can really travel and really go places quickly,
where it's the Wild West.
It's, we're the pioneers, it's the right stuff.
It's all those things that I think make it really exciting.
So instead of, oh, another week,
another planet, another species,
you know, we are dealing with a ship
that doesn't work 100% all the time.
We're discovering what it's like to be bored in space.
We're discovering what it's like to be afraid,
to have things not be what we had anticipated them to be.
And there's a reality about this series,
I think that's, again, gonna be...
it's gonna grab the fans,
because it's only 150 years from today.
We can almost in our minds get...
we can get our heads around that,
what 150 years is gonna be like now,
and as opposed to 300 years from now, or 400 years from now.
So, the idea of tying that to more today,
with the more, you know, the suits and everything,
and we're, they're just a little bit more of today,
makes it seem like a possibility.
And with that possibility,
then you just, you do the next logical avenue,
which is, well what would that really be like?
What if I really was the first captain
and we were out there for the first time
and didn't know what was gonna be around the next corner.
Just like you could tune in to watch any series,
you're tuning in week after week
to see the relationships and how they evolve.
We have that happening already on this show,
and hopefully it's just on a spaceship.
It's not in an ER room, or it's not in a law office,
it's on a spaceship.
But the things that are happening
around us in the world also,
are obviously big and dramatic and exciting,
but at the core of it,
it's how do these human beings exist together
on a day-to-day basis, and what makes each of them tick,
and hopefully they've created some interesting characters,
I believe they have, that people wanna come see.