It's not a puppet, but I remember seeing Lost in Space, you know, "Danger, danger, Will Robinson." [I liked] that character, the robot.

That's the interesting thing, the robot was always for me a character. The way that I played Pilot, was always as a character. I always referred to Rygel as a character, even though I'm standing in front of a puppet, and there are four people by my feet looking up at me. For me I was always playing to Rygel as a character.

Were you in the same room as Pilot when you voiced him?

I was voicing Pilot about two months after they actually shot the episode.

Initially we started out with having yours truly on the set, and then it became logistically impossible to have me working as Crais on one set, and then rushing off to voice Pilot on the other.