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This week, Jonathan
Frakes, aka Will Riker,

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and Elizabeth Dennehy,
aka Elizabeth Shelby,

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chat with me about the shocking events

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of this week's episode.

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We explore the beautiful
Enterprise-D bridge set

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and we commemorate Frontier
Day with a look back

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at the crew of the first Enterprise.

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Step through the mysterious
store and into The Ready Room

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for all this and more.

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Hey, nerds! I'm Wil Wheaton,
and this is The Ready Room,

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your official behind the scenes hub

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for all things Star Trek Universe.

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This week's episode of Star
Trek: Picard titled "Võx",

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commemorates Starfleet's founding with a

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galactic Frontier Day party.

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But in case your invitation
got lost in subspace,

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I am calling for a red alert!

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Those collective voices
you're hearing in your mind,

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they're full of spoilers,
but resistance is not futile.

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If you haven't seen this week's episode,

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then say hello to your
favorite chair, stream it,

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and then beam back here to The Ready Room.

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I'm so excited that Jonathan
Frakes and Elizabeth Dennehy,

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who play Will Riker and
Elizabeth Shelby are here to chat

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with me about their experiences
battling the Borg for

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three decades, and what
being an unforgettable part

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of Star Trek has meant to each of them.

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Speaking of Admiral Shelby,

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she, of course, returns to Star
Trek in this week's episode

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as part of the Frontier Day celebrations,

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which marked the 250th
anniversary of the first

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Starship Enterprise's historic missions.

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Later, we'll take a look
back at the long road

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The Enterprise NX-01 traveled,
setting the stage for the

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founding of the United
Federation of Planets,

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and what we now know as Starfleet.

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But before we get to
any of that, this week,

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Geordi La Forge surprises his
friends when he reveals that

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he has spent the last 20
years restoring their beloved

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U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

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I have to say,

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seeing that bridge again
felt like a homecoming to me,

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and I imagine it did for you too.

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I recently joined the legendary
Star Trek Graphic Designer

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Mike Okuda for a tour of
that recreated bridge set.

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And let me tell you, it
was very much coming home.

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It is just like I remember
it, down to every last detail,

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and I cannot wait to share it with you.

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Control room, engage.

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This is kind of the way Wesley
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the bridge of the Enterprise-D,
and it is the first way

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adult Wil Wheaton is getting to experience

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the bridge of the Enterprise-D.

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This is Mike Okuda.

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Mike is responsible for
all of the graphic design.

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Mike invented LCARS, we're
gonna talk about that today.

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Mike, let's start at the science stations.

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Perfect.

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I think LCARS is amazing.

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I remember you talking about the software,

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the system being
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system responding to the
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When I was first starting
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I had a meeting with Gene and I said,

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"Here's what I wanna
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what Matt Jeffries did in
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Yeah.

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And Gene, to his very
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"I don't wanna do what
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I want this to be different.

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I want this show to be so
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And that's really the genesis of this.

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Now, Star Trek: The Next Generation,

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We had just shot our first
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Yes.

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And you could tell Marina
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And I said to Marina, "Look, these buttons

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are software defined. The
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It responds to your
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to what's happening right now.

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So the button that you
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just remember that."

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Let's go to tactical.

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[Mike] Let's go fire some phasers.

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Let's fire some phasers.

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Let's talk about tactical.

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was this something you had to
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like with Herman, or whoever was doing the

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physical shaping of this horseshoe?

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Did that matter for you at all?
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the graphics are gonna lay
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Well, this is an incredibly
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It's compound intersecting ellipses.

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literally weeks and weeks to assemble.

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Art Director Liz Kloczkowski
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sweated these details.

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Because, before you can build
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and you have to be able to dimension it.

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what the angles are and what are the

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Bézier curves and all those things.

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And these guys sweated the
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isn't this perfect.

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On the original version of this console,

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it was a problem because
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It was actually too thin
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So this particular
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neon lamps, which was a lot
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And Geoff Mandel actually recreated

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this graphic for this set.

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But notice how he's given
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than everything else here.

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and that's what he recreated.

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I can't not see that now.

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That is why this feels
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'Cause it's like there's
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If we did it today.

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- Which we did.
- Which we did.

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What did we put behind it?

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We used LED lamps.

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The Picard set lighting department
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cool, color controllable LED arrays.

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the 1987 television set.

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And the result is, you saw
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it feels like you're coming
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a home that was torn down in '95.

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And you'd like, you never thought

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you'd be there again.

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And you walked into here and
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the way you remembered it.

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Let's go where that kid got to sit.

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I'm gonna head down to conn and ops.

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We are in my wheelhouse now.

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Welcome to my office.

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Does it feel familiar?

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Yeah, it does.

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if Picard was like, "Lay in a course for,

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blah, blah, blah, mark, blah."

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And I would go, "Okay,
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mark, blah, blah, blah.

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Great, course laid in."

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"Terrific. Take us to warp whatever."

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"Okay. Warp seven, warp
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And that's how the ship
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And I love that you used the framing bars.

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Now, do you have course and speed laid in?

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Yes, sir, they are.

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Standing here in front of this chair,

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I just had this wonderful,

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like, almost a flashback memory.

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When this set was on
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We'd been here for 25 minutes
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while the camera's set up.

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And I'm all kinds of not
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I notice you're not sitting in the chair.

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Because there's a protocol.

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Because there are rules, right.

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So, I texted the cast and I said,

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"Ready Room wants me to sit in the chair.

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I need one of you to give me permission

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before I can do that."

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Brent replies, "No. Absolutely not."

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And then a second later,
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Permission granted."

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I just got a text from Jonathan Frakes,

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who as it turns out, is one
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And Frakes said, "Mr.
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There you go.

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because Frakes gave me the bridge,

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would you please sit in
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I would be honored.

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Feels nice too.

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It feels different than
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I just wanna say thank you
to everybody involved in

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everything that had to happen for me to be

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right here, right now.

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Helm, take us out of orbit.

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Lay in a course for The Ready Room set.

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I am so excited and so
grateful to have our beloved

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Captain Will Riker, Jonathan Frakes,

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and now-Admiral Elizabeth
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here with me today to talk
about Star Trek: Picard's

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penultimate episode.

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Johnny, thank you for
returning to The Ready Room.

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Pleasure's mine.

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Elizabeth, welcome back to Star Trek,

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almost 35 years later.

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What's it like being back?

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It's surreal.

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I'm really grateful that
the character of Shelby has

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lived in the imaginations of fans.

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And that, I was just saying
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call out of the blue
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[Elizabeth] Amazing.

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We were talking before we started talking,

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all of us kind of
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we don't think Shelby actually
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back on Next Generation, right?

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Lieutenant Commander
Shelby, that was all they,

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that was all she wrote. And so-

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- All she needed.
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[Jonathan] Lieutenant Commander Badass.

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[Wil] Yeah, right.

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[Elizabeth] Thank you.

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And so Elizabeth works, Elizabeth Shelby.

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[Wil] Shelby appeared in
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important and consequential
episodes of The Next Generation.

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"Best of Both Worlds,
Part One" and "Part Two,"

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making her a very memorable guest star.

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I intend to convince Captain Picard that

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I'm the right choice for the job.

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Job? Which job?

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Yours, of course.

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This season, we get some
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guest stars and cameos.

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I'm going to read some of
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Shelby.

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Very cool.

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[Wil] Ro Laren.

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Also cool.

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[Wil] Moriarty.

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Great idea.

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[Wil] Tuvok.

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[Jonathan] Right?

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[Wil] Yeah.

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[Jonathan] Surprising.

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Yeah. Did you expect to be reuniting with

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any of these characters?

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I had no idea. Terry,
who sort of teased me

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with the season,

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didn't tell me anything
about who was gonna be in it.

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As each of you returned to Star Trek,

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we had to revisit the character dynamics,

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especially between Riker and
Shelby, which is not so great.

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There's a little bit of friction there.

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You do an end run around me again,

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I'll snap you back so hard you'll think

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you're a first year cadet again.

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May I speak frankly, sir?

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By all means.

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You're in my way.

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[Jonathan] Didn't like Riker.

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You know, it's,

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very interesting because I
had never watched any version

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of Star Trek before I got it, I was like,

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"Oh, you're Riker,"

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literally on the set, like, so clueless.

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But also, when we were
shooting the first part,

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we had not seen the second
part. We had absolutely-

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Nobody knew what the
second part was gonna be.

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One of my favorite stories
ever is Michael Piller,

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who wrote those episodes,
saying, "I wasn't coming back

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for part two so I just made
it as bad as I could for them

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and I'm gonna let somebody
else clean it up."

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And then Gene's like, "Yo,
I need you to come back

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and clean this up."

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And he was like, "What do I do?"

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Yeah. We had no idea where this was going,

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what was happening.

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And we had conversations
about, we have to play

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every kind of variable.

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So, I would tell people, that's
why you would sometimes get

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some snotty little side
eye from me because,

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are we gonna end up hating each other?

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Or are we gonna end up in love
with each other? Or maybe.

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Is Picard gonna end up dead
or a full-time Borg and not

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come back? That's what
it really felt like.

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That's why the cliffhanger
was so effective, because-

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Maybe I'm a double agent.
Maybe I'm a Borg in disguise

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who's been taken over
and put in a human body.

283
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We had to play every
eventuality, planting the seeds

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for what could have
come in the second part.

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And what did come into Picard.

286
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You could have easily
been a Borg in Picard.

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But for real, I see
Shelby on the viewscreen

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and I'm like, I don't
know man, I'm thinkin'

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maybe she's a Changeling. Like, I'm not,

290
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I super don't trust anybody.

291
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Yeah. It's good writing.

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Star Trek has its own language.

293
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We have our own technobabble.

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We have our own weird laws of physics.

295
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And every now and then we are
tasked with extraordinary,

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difficult, and weird language things.

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Did your experience
working on a soap opera,

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where you don't get a ton
of time with the material

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before it's given to you,

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did that create a skillset
that you were able to

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draw upon to handle all
of that technobabble?

302
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Very good question.

303
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The soap opera I did, I
was on The Guiding Light

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for a year with Michelle Forbes.

305
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What it did give me for
my life is a facility for

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learning lines very, very quickly.

307
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Okay.

308
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But what helped me with the
technobabble was training

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in Shakespeare, actually.

310
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Okay.

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I think that the vocal
dexterity that is required in

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speaking verse, but there are lines that

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I will never forget.

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Do you wanna say 'em?

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"Separate the saucer section.

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Assign a skeleton crew
to create a diversion."

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Separate the saucer section.

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Assign a skeleton crew
to create a diversion.

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That line took me hours and
hours and hours because you have

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to sound like you talk
like this all the time.

321
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We're looking at each
other like, that's so easy.

322
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It takes up so much
real estate in my brain.

323
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It is going with me to my grave.

324
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I will never, ever forget that.

325
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God forbid you have a sibilance.

326
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Exactly.

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Do you have a memory of, do you,

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is there a technobabble line that

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set up space in your
head that won't leave.

330
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I was so blessed with not
having to do technobabble.

331
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With the exception of,

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"It wasn't him. It never
was. It was his assistant."

333
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It wasn't him. It never
was. It was his assistant.

334
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Oh.

335
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But, generally.

336
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"Where None Have Gone Before."

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"Where None Have Gone Before."

338
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Generally, my participation in
the technobabble scenes was,

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"Report".

340
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And then LeVar would take
it or Brent would take it,

341
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Oh, how did Brent?

342
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And then I'd say, "Thank
you." It was great.

343
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It was so great.

344
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So easy!

345
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How did they do it? I would
stand back in an amazement.

346
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It's what you just said.
It was, well for me anyway-

347
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[Jonathan] It's a muscle.

348
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It's a muscle, and it's
a meter and it's a tempo,

349
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and it's just committing to it.

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"Oh, this is a K-fold contra-variant of a

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remanier tensorfieldld."

352
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Like, that's what, and just
over and over and over again,

353
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until like, yeah, it doesn't
mean anything to me at all.

354
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But it feels right.

355
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Can I tell you.

356
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Before you go to bed, you have to have it.

357
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That's the other thing.

358
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- Can I tell you a secret?
- [Wil] Yeah.

359
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I thought I was gonna be
fired after my first day.

360
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I don't know if you remember this,

361
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I was horrible my first day.

362
00:14:49.710 --> 00:14:50.543
Really?

363
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Oh my God.

364
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"Projections suggests that a Borg ship,

365
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like this one could continue
to function effectively even if

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78% of it were rendered inoperable."

367
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Could not say it, I could not say it.

368
00:15:00.413 --> 00:15:01.920
I mean, you're killing it now.

369
00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:04.535
I was gonna say, you're killing it now.

370
00:15:04.535 --> 00:15:06.570
I went home and I cried,

371
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my first day I was terrible.

372
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- [Jonathan] I had no idea!

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I was terrible.

374
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I was terrible. And I couldn't say it.

375
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My very first day, the very first scene.

376
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And I can't even watch the show because

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I can see the terror in my eyes.

378
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- I thought you were so cool.
- Oh!

379
00:15:22.291 --> 00:15:23.942
[Wil] Yeah. That was my-

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And so well cast.

381
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I have a very similar memory.

382
00:15:26.747 --> 00:15:27.726
Oh, that's so funny.

383
00:15:27.726 --> 00:15:28.590
Of just like, yeah.

384
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Oh, she's cool and she's a badass.

385
00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.471
Well, I thought I was gonna be fired.

386
00:15:32.471 --> 00:15:33.304
I could not get the line out.

387
00:15:33.304 --> 00:15:34.263
Cliff Bole directed.

388
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He was, he was a love,
from whom I stole a lot.

389
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He was the best.

390
00:15:38.982 --> 00:15:41.256
He was elusively good.

391
00:15:41.256 --> 00:15:43.020
Did you have a good
experience with Cliff Bole?

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He was one of the ones
who really treated me like

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a person and not like a kid who could

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just be moved around by the elbow.

395
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He had done hundreds
of hours of television.

396
00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:51.270
- Yeah, yeah, you felt it.
- Solid Director, yeah.

397
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He gave me one of the best acting notes

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I ever got in my life.

399
00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.850
And I don't know if you
remember the scene where I say,

400
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"I suppose this is why someone
like you sits in the shadow,"

401
00:15:59.580 --> 00:16:01.110
our big confrontation scene.

402
00:16:01.110 --> 00:16:04.650
And he said to me, because you
were so much taller than me,

403
00:16:04.650 --> 00:16:07.920
he said, "I know that you
can't look him straight

404
00:16:07.920 --> 00:16:10.140
in the eye, but your strength can come.

405
00:16:10.140 --> 00:16:12.780
You can find a lot of strength
from acting as if you can

406
00:16:12.780 --> 00:16:14.670
look him straight in
the eye." And he said,

407
00:16:14.670 --> 00:16:17.400
"So, when you're like
this, I suppose it looks

408
00:16:17.400 --> 00:16:20.797
like you're like a little
kid looking up." He said,

409
00:16:20.797 --> 00:16:24.210
"Just square your shoulders
and look at him as directly as

410
00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:26.940
you can and lower your voice."

411
00:16:26.940 --> 00:16:30.510
And when I did that, all
of a sudden I felt taller.

412
00:16:30.510 --> 00:16:33.720
If you can't make the
big decisions commander,

413
00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.973
I suggest you make room
for someone who can.

414
00:16:39.900 --> 00:16:40.890
[Jonathan] That's a great note.

415
00:16:40.890 --> 00:16:42.600
Fantastic note. I loved him.

416
00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.450
When we see Shelby, and Riker sees Shelby,

417
00:16:45.450 --> 00:16:48.030
there's that moment of like (inhales).

418
00:16:48.030 --> 00:16:51.510
In case of the unthinkable
fleet-wide incapacitation,

419
00:16:51.510 --> 00:16:54.270
this system will protect
our crews and our continued

420
00:16:54.270 --> 00:16:58.983
exploration of what still
remains our final frontier.

421
00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:01.110
There it is.

422
00:17:01.110 --> 00:17:04.260
Right from the mouth of
Admiral Elizabeth Shelby.

423
00:17:04.260 --> 00:17:08.460
The irony of her endorsing
something so Borg-like.

424
00:17:08.460 --> 00:17:10.710
Happy Frontier Day, everyone.

425
00:17:10.710 --> 00:17:15.377
The huge reveal, that the
Borg figured out a way to get

426
00:17:15.377 --> 00:17:16.843
- To get into the transporters.

427
00:17:16.843 --> 00:17:19.470
into the biological
infection vector through

428
00:17:19.470 --> 00:17:20.340
the transporters.

429
00:17:20.340 --> 00:17:21.480
It's genius.

430
00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.000
It kind of retcons

431
00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.580
all this stuff in Star
Trek over all these years.

432
00:17:26.580 --> 00:17:29.550
You can go back and look at
these things and go, and wonder,

433
00:17:29.550 --> 00:17:32.010
was that person being
manipulated by the Borg

434
00:17:32.010 --> 00:17:33.141
and we don't know?

435
00:17:33.141 --> 00:17:35.470
Also, all those little
fun, all those little

436
00:17:35.470 --> 00:17:37.320
blinking lights, what was in there?

437
00:17:37.320 --> 00:17:38.857
It turns out that could
have been Borg-centric.

438
00:17:38.857 --> 00:17:39.690
Yeah.

439
00:17:39.690 --> 00:17:42.240
I love how everything is,
there's follow through on

440
00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.330
everything, you know. You don't
have a lot of red herrings.

441
00:17:45.330 --> 00:17:47.970
Like it's, you know,
could conceivably be true.

442
00:17:47.970 --> 00:17:51.960
So, some of us are maybe
holding out a little bit of hope

443
00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.693
that maybe Shelby wasn't blasted to death.

444
00:17:56.340 --> 00:17:58.410
But we lost Ro earlier this year.

445
00:17:58.410 --> 00:18:01.447
We lost Tuvok earlier this year. I...

446
00:18:01.447 --> 00:18:04.050
Are you ever really, really, really dead?

447
00:18:04.050 --> 00:18:05.820
So, that's the big question, right?

448
00:18:05.820 --> 00:18:07.612
So, it's like a soap, like you never.

449
00:18:07.612 --> 00:18:08.445
Exactly.

450
00:18:08.445 --> 00:18:10.110
Is she dead or does she just have amnesia?

451
00:18:10.110 --> 00:18:12.000
Yeah. Or there's a twin.

452
00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.136
It's a little fitting
though, I think, that Shelby

453
00:18:15.136 --> 00:18:19.999
potentially, has finally been
defeated by the Borg. Right?

454
00:18:19.999 --> 00:18:22.230
Would we, could we make that,
could we make that case?

455
00:18:22.230 --> 00:18:23.550
Or is a Borg...

456
00:18:23.550 --> 00:18:26.220
Oh, this goes deep folks.
This goes very deep.

457
00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:29.754
That's what I, completely
buy that as a possibility.

458
00:18:29.754 --> 00:18:32.160
Let's talk about the Enterprise-D.

459
00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.663
Oh, did it give you the-

460
00:18:35.663 --> 00:18:36.930
It gave me all the feelings.

461
00:18:36.930 --> 00:18:38.610
Yeah, it gave me all the feelings, too.

462
00:18:38.610 --> 00:18:41.075
It gave me all the
feelings when we did it.

463
00:18:41.075 --> 00:18:42.780
It gave me all the feelings
when I took you over there.

464
00:18:42.780 --> 00:18:43.740
[Wil] Yeah.

465
00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:45.930
[Jonathan] That was the best.

466
00:18:45.930 --> 00:18:48.150
Wil and I saw the set together.

467
00:18:48.150 --> 00:18:50.190
And had our moment with it,

468
00:18:50.190 --> 00:18:53.040
which was the character of our
lives for however many years

469
00:18:53.040 --> 00:18:54.000
we were on that thing.

470
00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:54.900
Wow.

471
00:18:54.900 --> 00:18:57.090
When I walked into that set,

472
00:18:57.090 --> 00:18:58.710
I was on stage eight again.

473
00:18:58.710 --> 00:18:59.543
[Elizabeth] Wow.

474
00:18:59.543 --> 00:19:01.410
- [Wil] Was it as fun
to have everybody there?

475
00:19:01.410 --> 00:19:02.243
Was it as-
- It lived up to-

476
00:19:02.243 --> 00:19:05.670
As emotional and as meaningful
as I thought it was.

477
00:19:05.670 --> 00:19:08.190
Completely. As fulfilling,
and it was for everybody.

478
00:19:08.190 --> 00:19:11.010
I love that moment when
Worf's like, "Well, you know,

479
00:19:11.010 --> 00:19:12.150
actually..."

480
00:19:12.150 --> 00:19:15.412
I prefer the weapon systems on the E,

481
00:19:15.412 --> 00:19:16.245
additional phaser arrays, torpedo-

482
00:19:16.245 --> 00:19:17.078
Worf.

483
00:19:18.210 --> 00:19:19.440
She is perfect.

484
00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.180
Another tribute to Terry Matalas.

485
00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:22.013
[Wil] Yeah.

486
00:19:22.013 --> 00:19:24.990
Those moments of levity are
one of the great secrets to

487
00:19:24.990 --> 00:19:27.330
making Star Trek really, really work.

488
00:19:27.330 --> 00:19:30.270
Johnny, we last saw you
here in The Ready Room

489
00:19:30.270 --> 00:19:33.090
in Episode 3, which
feels like forever ago.

490
00:19:33.090 --> 00:19:34.350
There have been some really big moments

491
00:19:34.350 --> 00:19:36.286
for Riker since then.

492
00:19:36.286 --> 00:19:40.200
Is there anything that really
sticks out in your head from

493
00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:44.010
Season 3 that was like an
especially important Riker

494
00:19:44.010 --> 00:19:45.060
moment for you?

495
00:19:45.060 --> 00:19:46.407
Yeah. Let me share this with you.

496
00:19:46.407 --> 00:19:48.000
You always bring this out of me.

497
00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.290
Okay.

498
00:19:49.290 --> 00:19:52.050
I was stressing about going
back to work as an actor.

499
00:19:52.050 --> 00:19:53.610
I was stressing about learning the lines.

500
00:19:53.610 --> 00:19:55.620
I was stressing and
stressing and stressing.

501
00:19:55.620 --> 00:19:56.760
Because Terry had warned me

502
00:19:56.760 --> 00:19:59.850
there's gonna be a lot of
Riker, which blessedly there is.

503
00:19:59.850 --> 00:20:01.300
And the Riker is really good.

504
00:20:03.441 --> 00:20:05.520
And I'm married to Genie
Francis, as you know,

505
00:20:05.520 --> 00:20:08.460
who learns 20 or 30 pages
of dialogue a night,

506
00:20:08.460 --> 00:20:11.730
and has been on and off
General Hospital for 46 years

507
00:20:11.730 --> 00:20:15.180
and is a fantastic actor.

508
00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:18.573
And she said to me, when she
was running my lines with me,

509
00:20:20.130 --> 00:20:24.240
"You don't have to worry about pretending

510
00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.520
to be a leader, or
pretending to be a captain,

511
00:20:26.520 --> 00:20:29.490
or pretending to be
command, all these things.

512
00:20:29.490 --> 00:20:32.490
This is what you do when you go to work,

513
00:20:32.490 --> 00:20:35.940
you lead your team

514
00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:37.500
through your day."
- Yeah.

515
00:20:37.500 --> 00:20:39.720
That's exactly who Riker is.

516
00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.830
It's who you are, too.

517
00:20:40.830 --> 00:20:41.940
And it's who I am.

518
00:20:41.940 --> 00:20:45.600
But I needed reminded
by her, and it made my,

519
00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:49.097
it informed me in a way
that was so helpful.

520
00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:50.700
It's like Cliff Bole's note to you.

521
00:20:50.700 --> 00:20:51.533
Yeah.

522
00:20:51.533 --> 00:20:54.120
Only bigger, 'cause it came from Genie.

523
00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:57.240
Speaking of Genie, let's
talk about your shirt.

524
00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:58.073
Oh!

525
00:20:58.073 --> 00:20:59.850
[Wil] This is important. I love this.

526
00:20:59.850 --> 00:21:02.490
Tell us the story of the
shirt you chose to wear today,

527
00:21:02.490 --> 00:21:03.930
and how Genie is involved.

528
00:21:03.930 --> 00:21:05.520
This is weird.

529
00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:09.441
I auditioned as, famously, seven
times over six weeks to get

530
00:21:09.441 --> 00:21:11.280
Wild Bill Riker.

531
00:21:11.280 --> 00:21:15.000
And this is the shirt I wore
to all seven of the auditions,

532
00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.340
from meeting Junie Lowry,
all the way through to the

533
00:21:17.340 --> 00:21:19.410
final audition when I used
to go to Gene's office

534
00:21:19.410 --> 00:21:20.670
with Corey Allen.

535
00:21:20.670 --> 00:21:23.730
And it became, I was so superstitious

536
00:21:23.730 --> 00:21:25.680
like a baseball player not wearing,

537
00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:30.470
changing his socks that I
didn't clean it, wash it.

538
00:21:30.470 --> 00:21:34.140
So it was virtually stiff
by the seventh audition.

539
00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:37.098
And I've kept it for 36 years
and it was in my closet,

540
00:21:37.098 --> 00:21:39.090
and I was coming to see Wil today.

541
00:21:39.090 --> 00:21:40.327
And I put it on and Genie said,

542
00:21:40.327 --> 00:21:43.080
"Isn't that that shirt that you
wore, your Star Trek shirt?"

543
00:21:43.080 --> 00:21:44.610
I said, "Yeah, that's why I'm wearing it.

544
00:21:44.610 --> 00:21:47.880
Hopefully Wil will ask me about it."

545
00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.904
Here it is, it still fits.
That's the other part to satisfy.

546
00:21:50.904 --> 00:21:52.217
I'm so impressed. And it looks new.

547
00:21:52.217 --> 00:21:54.221
That's what Genie said this morning!

548
00:21:54.221 --> 00:21:55.112
It looks new.

549
00:21:55.112 --> 00:21:55.945
- She said, "The shirt still looks good."

550
00:21:55.945 --> 00:21:56.778
It looks really good.

551
00:21:56.778 --> 00:21:59.070
I mean that fits with
contemporary fashion for sure.

552
00:21:59.070 --> 00:21:59.910
That's the other thing.

553
00:21:59.910 --> 00:22:02.430
I wish I could remember what
I wore from my audition.

554
00:22:02.430 --> 00:22:04.597
When I got it I remember being like,

555
00:22:04.597 --> 00:22:06.838
"Oh my God, I got that part."

556
00:22:06.838 --> 00:22:07.671
Oh.

557
00:22:07.671 --> 00:22:10.710
That's my most vivid memory is that I was

558
00:22:10.710 --> 00:22:15.390
sort of intimidated, and then
really happy that I got it.

559
00:22:15.390 --> 00:22:18.240
That, you know, it felt like,
wow, this is big league.

560
00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.280
It made it feel big league for me.

561
00:22:20.280 --> 00:22:23.130
And what's so strange is
when I go to conventions,

562
00:22:23.130 --> 00:22:24.787
30 years ago, people would say,

563
00:22:24.787 --> 00:22:27.265
"God, I hated you. You were such a bitch."

564
00:22:27.265 --> 00:22:29.007
Such a great compliment, isn't it?

565
00:22:29.007 --> 00:22:32.937
And I was hearing that, I
don't hear that, ever, anymore.

566
00:22:32.937 --> 00:22:35.880
Think of how much the
world has changed with,

567
00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:38.940
"Nevertheless, She Persisted,"
how comfortable people have

568
00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:41.730
become with women in
power who don't care if

569
00:22:41.730 --> 00:22:42.900
they're liked or not.

570
00:22:42.900 --> 00:22:44.220
Oh, that's great.

571
00:22:44.220 --> 00:22:46.710
So, the world has changed.
So instead of you're a bitch,

572
00:22:46.710 --> 00:22:47.730
it's like you're a badass.

573
00:22:47.730 --> 00:22:50.310
I never hear that anymore.
And I hear it from men.

574
00:22:50.310 --> 00:22:51.143
That's evolved!

575
00:22:51.143 --> 00:22:54.000
"I thought she was a
badass and you didn't care

576
00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.120
if people liked you or not,
and you saw a solution,

577
00:22:57.120 --> 00:23:00.330
and you forged your way through
to pursue your solution.

578
00:23:00.330 --> 00:23:03.960
Whether or not, you didn't
pass on and try to make the man

579
00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:05.460
come up with the idea.

580
00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:07.800
You just came up with the
ideas and went for it."

581
00:23:07.800 --> 00:23:12.720
And I used to get a little
bit, scared, honestly,

582
00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.690
at conventions 30 years ago,
people were so vehement.

583
00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:18.060
And now, I never hear that anymore.

584
00:23:18.060 --> 00:23:21.390
Or what I hear is from older
people, "I thought you were,

585
00:23:21.390 --> 00:23:23.130
but actually you were really right."

586
00:23:23.130 --> 00:23:24.720
How great.

587
00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:28.110
Yeah. So, it's really
interesting how the characters

588
00:23:28.110 --> 00:23:32.760
have grown in 30 years into
being who they needed to become,

589
00:23:32.760 --> 00:23:36.483
but also the audiences have
changed so much, you know.

590
00:23:36.483 --> 00:23:37.410
Thank you, Michael Piller.

591
00:23:37.410 --> 00:23:38.736
Thank you, Michael Piller.

592
00:23:38.736 --> 00:23:39.606
Yeah. For real.

593
00:23:39.606 --> 00:23:40.439
[Jonathan] Awesome.

594
00:23:40.439 --> 00:23:43.116
Nobody ever says. "Yeah, you were right,

595
00:23:43.116 --> 00:23:45.270
but you needed to be nicer to him."

596
00:23:45.270 --> 00:23:46.705
I used to hear that.

597
00:23:46.705 --> 00:23:48.330
Oh, that's, that's.

598
00:23:48.330 --> 00:23:49.320
- Wow.
- [Jonathan] I have hope.

599
00:23:49.320 --> 00:23:51.810
I have some notes to
those dudes who said that.

600
00:23:51.810 --> 00:23:52.740
It's interesting.

601
00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:54.420
It's been really, really interesting.

602
00:23:54.420 --> 00:23:57.150
This really leads me into what is sadly

603
00:23:57.150 --> 00:23:58.600
my final question for us today.

604
00:23:58.600 --> 00:23:59.433
Oh no.

605
00:23:59.433 --> 00:24:01.410
And it is about Gene
Roddenberry's vision and

606
00:24:01.410 --> 00:24:04.980
about what Star Trek
kind of laid out like,

607
00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:09.060
almost 60 years ago, what
we were doing 35 years ago.

608
00:24:09.060 --> 00:24:13.110
Star Trek to me, has always
been about moving forward

609
00:24:13.110 --> 00:24:17.640
and, like, challenging patriarchy,
challenging the construct

610
00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.220
of gender, challenging
the construct of the

611
00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:22.380
racial hierarchies and
all of these things that

612
00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:25.770
Star Trek has always been
about everyone having a place,

613
00:24:25.770 --> 00:24:27.570
and everyone being their very

614
00:24:27.570 --> 00:24:29.220
best selves and being able to do that.

615
00:24:29.220 --> 00:24:33.497
And that makes me feel, like,
that is a tangible example

616
00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:39.000
that we can all touch,
of how we as a society

617
00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.730
have moved that much closer to what

618
00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:45.330
we were trying to model 35 years ago.

619
00:24:45.330 --> 00:24:49.110
I feel like, probably back
then, it was ahead of its time

620
00:24:49.110 --> 00:24:52.230
and she was a character who
was kind of ahead of her time,

621
00:24:52.230 --> 00:24:54.360
and the fact that she was so young and,

622
00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:58.380
but you talk about in the
same show that she reminds me

623
00:24:58.380 --> 00:24:59.760
of you when you started out.

624
00:24:59.760 --> 00:25:00.840
That was a big-
- Yeah.

625
00:25:00.840 --> 00:25:03.180
Part of it, is that what happened to that

626
00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:07.320
ambitious hot head, and I think that

627
00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:11.340
both sides of the hot head, the
ambition, and the not caring

628
00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:14.640
about people liking you, and
then the person looking back,

629
00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.370
it's really the story
of humanity, isn't it?

630
00:25:17.370 --> 00:25:20.280
You know? And being a conscious person.

631
00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:21.113
Yeah.

632
00:25:21.113 --> 00:25:23.100
Being able to look back at the past,

633
00:25:23.100 --> 00:25:25.470
being able to look
ahead to the future and,

634
00:25:25.470 --> 00:25:28.230
what am I gonna have
biggest regrets about?

635
00:25:28.230 --> 00:25:31.801
Doing what I wanna do or not, right?

636
00:25:31.801 --> 00:25:32.970
Good guest.

637
00:25:32.970 --> 00:25:34.770
Yeah. Johnny?

638
00:25:34.770 --> 00:25:35.603
Yes, sir.

639
00:25:35.603 --> 00:25:38.070
I will have you back in The
Ready Room as a director.

640
00:25:38.070 --> 00:25:40.402
I know that is going to happen.

641
00:25:40.402 --> 00:25:44.858
This is probably the last
time you're here as Riker.

642
00:25:44.858 --> 00:25:47.250
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

643
00:25:47.250 --> 00:25:49.380
I need to be prepared for this.

644
00:25:49.380 --> 00:25:51.300
I do too, but I am in denial.

645
00:25:51.300 --> 00:25:53.880
Okay. You can continue to be in denial.

646
00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.393
And I'm gonna say this thing
that's really important to me,

647
00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:00.060
I love Riker.

648
00:26:00.060 --> 00:26:01.410
Oh.

649
00:26:01.410 --> 00:26:03.180
I love how Riker always saw Wesley

650
00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:05.220
the way you have always seen me.

651
00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:06.690
Right.

652
00:26:06.690 --> 00:26:11.310
He means so much to me,
and I know he means so much

653
00:26:11.310 --> 00:26:12.423
to so many people.

654
00:26:13.265 --> 00:26:17.580
If this actually does, kind of represent,

655
00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:19.165
maybe

656
00:26:19.165 --> 00:26:24.000
the last stop of Riker and
Wesley, and all of that,

657
00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.450
I want to say, in public,
how grateful I am,

658
00:26:27.450 --> 00:26:31.170
and what a privilege it has
been to be this enormous part

659
00:26:31.170 --> 00:26:34.320
of a thing together for 35 years.

660
00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:38.350
And I'm so happy that we
are here in The Ready Room

661
00:26:39.184 --> 00:26:40.890
for this moment.

662
00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:43.980
It means so, so, so much to me.

663
00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:44.970
Thank you, Will.

664
00:26:44.970 --> 00:26:45.803
[Wil] Thank you.

665
00:26:45.803 --> 00:26:47.080
It means that to me, too.

666
00:26:48.630 --> 00:26:51.420
You're good at this.
You were born to this.

667
00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:52.410
You really are.

668
00:26:52.410 --> 00:26:53.360
Oh, thanks a lot.

669
00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:56.213
Whew.

670
00:26:56.213 --> 00:26:57.450
Thanks for being here.

671
00:26:57.450 --> 00:26:58.283
- Wow.
- Yeah.

672
00:26:58.283 --> 00:26:59.116
Thank you so much.

673
00:26:59.116 --> 00:27:00.151
Good show.

674
00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:24.330
Way back in 2151,

675
00:27:24.330 --> 00:27:27.870
or is that way ahead in 2151?

676
00:27:27.870 --> 00:27:30.270
We travelers experience
time in a very different way

677
00:27:30.270 --> 00:27:31.290
than humans do.

678
00:27:31.290 --> 00:27:34.530
The first Starship Enterprise
under the command of

679
00:27:34.530 --> 00:27:37.590
Captain Jonathan Archer set
off on its historic mission

680
00:27:37.590 --> 00:27:39.060
to explore the galaxy.

681
00:27:39.060 --> 00:27:41.580
In this week's episode,
Starfleet commemorates those

682
00:27:41.580 --> 00:27:43.167
early missions with Frontier Day.

683
00:27:43.167 --> 00:27:46.170
And that inspired us here in
The Ready Room to celebrate

684
00:27:46.170 --> 00:27:49.740
the legacy of the enterprise
NX-01 and its crew

685
00:27:49.740 --> 00:27:51.933
with this special tribute. Take a look.

686
00:27:53.610 --> 00:27:57.540
Spacedock. This is NCC-1701-F, ready for

687
00:27:57.540 --> 00:28:01.140
ceremonial departure,
Admiral Shelby in command.

688
00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:05.180
Copy that Enterprise.
You're clear for departure.

689
00:28:07.919 --> 00:28:10.200
[Narrator] In Star Trek: Picard, Season 3,

690
00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:13.470
Episode 9, every Starfleet
vessel gathers at

691
00:28:13.470 --> 00:28:15.783
Spacedock to commemorate Frontier Day.

692
00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:19.470
This special holiday
celebrates the voyages of the

693
00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:23.460
Enterprise NX-01, the first
warp five-capable Starship

694
00:28:23.460 --> 00:28:26.880
constructed by human hands,
whose missions led to

695
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.523
the birth of Starfleet as we know it.

696
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.650
The legendary stories of that
historic starship and its crew

697
00:28:34.650 --> 00:28:38.010
are told in Star Trek: Enterprise.

698
00:28:38.010 --> 00:28:39.146
Let's go.

699
00:28:44.051 --> 00:28:46.530
[Narrator] In the premiere episode of

700
00:28:46.530 --> 00:28:50.130
Star Trek: Enterprise, a Klingon
on named Klaang crash lands

701
00:28:50.130 --> 00:28:52.200
in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.

702
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.810
Despite their Vulcan allies' concerns,

703
00:28:54.810 --> 00:28:57.420
the leaders of the United
Earth Starfleet decide

704
00:28:57.420 --> 00:29:00.780
returning Klaang to his home
world is an ideal first mission

705
00:29:00.780 --> 00:29:04.323
for the fleet's new flagship,
the Enterprise NX-01.

706
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.180
Under the command of Captain
Jonathan Archer, accompanied by

707
00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:12.870
his beloved beagle
Porthos, the NX-01 launches

708
00:29:12.870 --> 00:29:16.200
into the final frontier in 2151,

709
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:20.223
250 years before the events
in Star Trek: Picard.

710
00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:24.420
This first enterprise is
made up of uniquely talented

711
00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:28.295
officers, including First
Officer Sub-Commander T'Pol.

712
00:29:28.295 --> 00:29:30.720
This confirms that I was
transferred to your command

713
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.070
at 0800 hours.

714
00:29:32.070 --> 00:29:33.750
[Narrator] The first
Vulcan to serve aboard

715
00:29:33.750 --> 00:29:35.220
a human Starship.

716
00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:38.670
Initially joining the crew as
an observer on behalf of the

717
00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:41.100
wary Vulcan High Command.

718
00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:45.150
Dr. Phlox, the Denobulan
Chief Medical Officer who uses

719
00:29:45.150 --> 00:29:48.750
an otherworldly mix of holistic
and technological medicine

720
00:29:48.750 --> 00:29:50.969
to treat his patients.

721
00:29:50.969 --> 00:29:52.950
Very nice.

722
00:29:52.950 --> 00:29:56.010
[Narrator] Lieutenant Malcolm
Reed, Enterprise's English

723
00:29:56.010 --> 00:29:58.500
Security Chief and tactical officer,

724
00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:01.443
whose Starfleet experience
holds a dark secret.

725
00:30:03.090 --> 00:30:04.950
Ensign Travis Mayweather,

726
00:30:04.950 --> 00:30:07.950
the ship's helmsman who
learned how to fly starships

727
00:30:07.950 --> 00:30:11.160
while growing up on his
family's cargo freighter.

728
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:12.610
You're upside down, ensign.

729
00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:15.030
Yes, sir.

730
00:30:15.030 --> 00:30:16.410
Care to explain why?

731
00:30:16.410 --> 00:30:19.530
When I was a kid, we
called it the "sweet spot."

732
00:30:19.530 --> 00:30:22.050
[Narrator] Lieutenant
Commander Hoshi Sato,

733
00:30:22.050 --> 00:30:25.320
a gifted linguist who serves
as Communications Officer,

734
00:30:25.320 --> 00:30:28.892
and is the first human to
learn the Klingon language.

735
00:30:28.892 --> 00:30:32.340
(speaking Klingon)

736
00:30:32.340 --> 00:30:34.117
He, he wants to know who we are.

737
00:30:35.760 --> 00:30:38.610
[Narrator] And Commander
Charles "Trip" Tucker, III.

738
00:30:38.610 --> 00:30:42.030
The NX-01's Chief Engineer
as well as Captain Archer's

739
00:30:42.030 --> 00:30:43.653
best friend and confidante.

740
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:47.640
Throughout the Enterprise NX-01's journey,

741
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:49.500
the ship and its crew make contact with

742
00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:52.320
more than 30 non-human species,

743
00:30:52.320 --> 00:30:55.422
broker peace between
Vulcans and Andorians,

744
00:30:55.422 --> 00:30:57.480
and Andorians and Tellarite's,

745
00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:00.690
engage in several battles
during the Xindi conflict.

746
00:31:00.690 --> 00:31:02.250
We're in range. Fire.

747
00:31:02.250 --> 00:31:03.630
[Narrator] And play a major role in the

748
00:31:03.630 --> 00:31:05.532
Temporal Cold War.

749
00:31:10.560 --> 00:31:12.540
[Narrator] On Captain
Archer's final mission,

750
00:31:12.540 --> 00:31:15.960
he represents Earth by signing
the Federation Charter,

751
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.080
uniting many of the galaxy's
different worlds under

752
00:31:19.080 --> 00:31:21.630
one banner for the first time.

753
00:31:21.630 --> 00:31:23.940
You wish you could tell
them all that this alliance

754
00:31:23.940 --> 00:31:26.543
will give birth to the Federation.

755
00:31:26.543 --> 00:31:27.930
[Narrator] On Frontier Day,

756
00:31:27.930 --> 00:31:29.820
we look back at the building blocks of

757
00:31:29.820 --> 00:31:32.220
what we now know as Starfleet-

758
00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:34.500
Captain Jonathan Archer
and the crew of the

759
00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:36.510
original Starship Enterprise-

760
00:31:36.510 --> 00:31:39.450
without whom, future
generations of explorers

761
00:31:39.450 --> 00:31:42.660
like Admiral Jean-Luc Picard,
may not have begun their

762
00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:45.570
continuing mission, boldly going where

763
00:31:45.570 --> 00:31:47.223
no one has gone before.

764
00:31:48.060 --> 00:31:49.010
Engage.

765
00:32:32.760 --> 00:32:35.610
In the extremely rare event
that you're not excited for

766
00:32:35.610 --> 00:32:38.640
next week's epic conclusion
to Star Trek: Picard,

767
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.100
I have have an exclusive
clip from that episode

768
00:32:41.100 --> 00:32:43.563
that I suspect will alter your condition.

769
00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:48.150
The fleet has initiated an
attack formation against earth.

770
00:32:48.150 --> 00:32:49.950
Orbital weapon platforms
have been destroyed,

771
00:32:49.950 --> 00:32:53.010
but Spacedock's defenses appear
to be repelling the assault.

772
00:32:53.010 --> 00:32:56.010
For now. Planetary shields
won't hold against that fleet.

773
00:32:56.010 --> 00:32:57.210
Where the hell is the cavalry?

774
00:32:57.210 --> 00:32:59.760
Emergency hails from both
Federation and civilian

775
00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:02.190
ships have now gone silent.

776
00:33:02.190 --> 00:33:05.190
Apparently we are the cavalry.

777
00:33:05.190 --> 00:33:07.830
The fleet is being
controlled by the collective,

778
00:33:07.830 --> 00:33:10.864
a hivemind with a single voice.

779
00:33:10.864 --> 00:33:12.930
The Borg are here. Mr. Data.

780
00:33:12.930 --> 00:33:14.070
Scanning Captain.

781
00:33:14.070 --> 00:33:16.380
If Spacedock falls,
there'll be nothing standing

782
00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:19.050
between an assimilated fleet and Earth.

783
00:33:19.050 --> 00:33:20.773
If Earth falls, everything falls.

784
00:33:20.773 --> 00:33:23.370
Every planet, every system.

785
00:33:23.370 --> 00:33:26.073
Long-range sensors are
picking up a Borg vessel.

786
00:33:26.910 --> 00:33:28.050
Jupiter, sir.

787
00:33:28.050 --> 00:33:29.670
Lay in a course. Maximum warp.

788
00:33:29.670 --> 00:33:30.751
Aye, Captain.

789
00:33:30.751 --> 00:33:31.584
Engage.

790
00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:00.407
Remember my friends,
resistance is not futile.

791
00:34:00.407 --> 00:34:03.870
I have really enjoyed our
time together this week.

792
00:34:03.870 --> 00:34:05.490
Thank you for being here.

793
00:34:05.490 --> 00:34:07.950
And thank you to Jonathan
Frakes and Elizabeth Dennehy

794
00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:10.830
for a truly wonderful chat.

795
00:34:10.830 --> 00:34:13.680
Next week, we will be
exploring every angle of the

796
00:34:13.680 --> 00:34:17.220
series finale episode of
Star Trek: Picard titled

797
00:34:17.220 --> 00:34:19.470
"The Last Generation."

798
00:34:19.470 --> 00:34:22.890
Wow. "The series finale" is
a tough thing for me to say.

799
00:34:22.890 --> 00:34:25.350
Showrunner Terry Matalas
and Seven of Nine herself,

800
00:34:25.350 --> 00:34:29.070
Jeri Ryan, will be here with
me to talk through an adventure

801
00:34:29.070 --> 00:34:31.980
more than 35 years in the making.

802
00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:33.810
We're gonna have some feelings, folks.

803
00:34:33.810 --> 00:34:37.713
Until then, I'm Wil Wheaton.
Live long and prosper.