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Kate Mulgrew on Janeway’s appearance

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The hair, the bosom, the boots, the voice. I mean, it was a CONSTANT examination of my gender. Until I finally marched into the producer’s office and I said ‘You know, Rick, you’ve GOT to stop this. If those people are examining my bosoms with the same intensity as you all are, it gives Star …

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Nichelle Nichols’ Star Trek Audition

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“We laughed and we joked, and so far we hadn’t even gotten to the reason why I was there…Finally they said, ‘This has really been wonderful,’ and they asked me to read for them. I said, ‘I’d love to.’ They handed me a script and apologized, saying the part I’d be playing would be the …

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Majel on Number One

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Number One was born and bred for her job. I had developed my own backstory for her that on her planet, she was raised in a litter, so she was raised for her job. But she had heart. I think you’d have found as she developed that she would have showed that heart. There would …

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Winn: Space Pope

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[Winn] wanted power and she was ambitious. She was sort of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re doing Star Trek. Who are you playing?’ I’d say, ‘Think the Pope in space, except she’s like an ancient Pope, from the …

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Behind the Scenes: Merri Howard

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July 20: Wishing a very happy birthday to Merri Howard, who made a huge impact behind the scenes on Trek, as an assistant director on TNG and producer on TNG, Voyager and Enterprise. Fun fact: Beverly Crusher’s maiden name was even established as Howard in her honour! According to Merri Howard: I worked on Trek …

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Captain Janeway First Character Description

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Page from a daily Trek calendar, transcribed below “A human, Janeway is by no means the only female Captain in Starfleet. But it is generally acknowledged that she is among the best-male or female. She embodies all that is exemplary about Starfleet officers: intelligent, thoughtful, perspicacious, sensitive to the feelings of others, tough when she …

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Behind the Scenes: On Elizabeth Dehner

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From These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season 1 by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn: Roddenberry wrote to [Sam] Peeples suggesting many changes and specifically asking that Dehner be portrayed as ‘something less than a ‘swinger,’” that she be “a little overly intelligent and inhibited.” NBC’s Donald Bays wrote to Roddenberry after reading an early script where Gary …

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