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Thank you for getting
me out of the Academy.

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Are you actually Lanthanite?

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Oh, a couple of drinks
and you get personal.

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That it, flyboy?

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As an actor,
I just love to jump

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into my imagination
and different worlds

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and that's one
of the great gifts

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that we get being actors.

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You know, one day
you're a bank teller

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and the next day
you're a surgeon

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and the next day
you're someone

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thousands and thousands
of years old.

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I will remind you, half
our crew is on shore leave.

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And we still lack a chief engineer

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as well as a head of security.

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We needed an engineer
because we had lost Hemmer.

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And we just got into a discussion

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as a writers’ room about
what would be an interesting,

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very different energy
to throw into our cast.

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I notice you are short a chief
engineer on this mission.

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Indeed.

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Be happy to sub in.

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Been a hundred years
since I've gone out

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with engines of my own.

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A hundred years, really?

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So we had this idea about
a race of people

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who lived among humans
for thousands of years,

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unknown to us.

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Well, my character Pelia
is thousands of years old,

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come from a tribe called Lanthanites.

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That's the accent.

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You're Lanthanite.

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Guilty as charged.

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After Hemmer's passing,
Uhura's in a lot of mourning.

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She's doing a lot of grieving

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and still trying to figure out

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how to make a home for
herself on the Enterprise,

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now that her best friend is gone.

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And then she meets
Commander Pelia,

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who is Hemmer's essential replacement.

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At first, I think she's
a little cautious,

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a little trepidatious as
anyone would be.

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But I think because of
Pelia's incredible personality

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and just how warm
and exciting she is,

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I think Uhura can't help but
sort of be attracted to that.

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Commander, I am alarmed
at your lack of concern.

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At what?

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At the textbook signs
of a warp core breach?

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You do know that I teach a
course in warp core breaches

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at the Academy, yes?
-I...

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I have taught engineering
for a long time.

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I have come to find
my world as a teacher

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not challenging enough
and kind of boring.

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And then I come to understand that

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in Spock's guidance on the
Enterprise, things are exciting.

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I can think of one reason:

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to steal the Enterprise.

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Hemmer had this notion
of his own purpose

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and as it related to his mortality.

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So we thought, what
would be a flip of that?

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Here's someone who never really
has to face their mortality.

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How would you see life differently
if you were that person?

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And when the opportunity
came to cast Carol Kane

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we thought, "Well, that's a
completely different energy.

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Someone we have never
seen on Trek before."

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And it was very funny 'cause we,

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when we reached out to Carol,

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she was like,
"Are you sure you want me?"

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And we're like, "Yes!

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Yes, we're absolutely
sure we want you.

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You are the energy we want."

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I never imagined being in sci-fi.

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It's very different than anything

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I've ever come close to doing before.

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Do you have a good
reason to steal the ship?

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I am having what
you humans call a hunch.

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A Vulcan with a hunch?

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That's a new one.

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When she comes into any
scene, she is so much herself

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in a way that I think is
kind of perfect for the crew.

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It really kind of throws
people back on their heels.

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It makes them think
about things differently.

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It forces 'em to play things differently.

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I must say, being in scenes

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with this entire cast
has been so much fun.

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And sometimes you feel
a little awkward

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coming in on a second season

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when people have already gotten
very family-like together.

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And I haven't felt that
for one second.

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I think the first person
I was able to work with

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was Ethan Peck, who is just a doll

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and so talented
and handsome to boot,

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which never hurts.

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You wanna know the worst thing

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about living almost forever?

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It's boredom.

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And on that ship of yours,

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there seems to be a shortage of that.

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I like it.

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I might even try
and stick around, huh?