In the beginning
"I really wasn't familiar at all with the show. I had to have people brief me. Someone in the play that I was doing was quite a fan of Star Trek TOS, and so he explained to me what warp speed was and all of the jargon, because I hadn't a clue.
I had done some small amounts of film and television , but I'd never been on a series with the special effects and the set. My first day was filming the mall in space for Encounter At Farpoint. And it was just such a huge set."
"What was toughest about it was that it was almost like a new language sometimes. It wasn't that it was so difficult; it usually was the amount of time that you had to prepare that made it difficult."

Encounter at Farpoint
"It was a very long tome ago, but I very vividly remember my very first day on Star Trek. I was down in San Diego doing a play with Linda Hunt and I jumped onto a plane, flew into Los Angeles airport, got into a car that Paramount sent to pick me up at the airport, and we went straight to the studio and onto the set. My first scene was one with Jonathan Frakes, where we walked down what amounted to a 24th century shopping mall, looking at fabrics. That was quite the entrance. I also played my first scene with Will Wheaton that day. It was all pretty scary, but cool. It was such a big set we were on, a huge scene with cranes and everything. It was a total whirlwind experience, a bit of a blur. I was nervous, but excited. They just put me in my space suit and off I went. And then, after I was done, I had to fly back to San Diego to do the play."
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