You worked on three different versions of Trek. Was there a different feel to each?

There absolutely was. Next Generation was of course a wonderful show, it was great fun to work on, the actors were all very close. There was a real family feeling about that show and it just kept getting better. The writing got better, the characters got better.

But when the show wrapped [at the end of] the seventh season, there wasn't such a feeling of sadness. There was more of a feeling of, "Well, the TV show's never going to be shot again, but next week we're all going to come back and we're all going to make movies." So there was no feeling of it ending, ever.

Whereas on Deep Space Nine, which in my opinion is the best of all the shows, that last day was very emotional. It was an amazing thing to be part of, because we knew that that was it. Those actors, those sets, the crew, everybody was never going to be in that space together again. I wasn't there for the seventh season [of Voyager], so I really can't say how it ended for everybody personally, but again, those people knew they were never going to be at that same place, same time again, because chances are, there's never going to be a Voyager movie, just like there's never going to be a Deep Space Nine movie, probably.

Working on all the shows was an amazing experience, all the way around. In Hollywood, to land on a series that's going to last fifteen, sixteen, twenty years, is unheard of. Most of us go to work on a TV show, whether as an actor or a writer or whatever, and don't know if it's going to last an episode, two, three, or a season. With Star Trek, you're pretty sure you're going to have longevity there.