What did about Star Trek before you actually had your audition for Voyager?

Well, I had been on The Next Generation. I did a guest star on that show. When I did The Next Generation I had gotten a job on a new TV show that was very highly anticipated. It was by the creators of Northern Exposure and ABC, the network at the time, was really excited about it. But it was put on hold for some casting reasons, so I had some time to kill - I had a few weeks where I had nothing going on.

My agent called me and they said, �You know, this show, Star Trek � The Next Generation, they�d love for you to play this role, it�s a guest star role. And since you�re not going to be going off to make this other show for a few weeks we think you should do it. And I went, �Oh, I don�t want to do some space show. I�m going to do this really classy, highly anticipated drama in a few weeks, and I�m just going to relax.� And they said, �No, it�ll be good for you � there�s a lot of people that watch The Next Generation, it�s got a real cult following.� I didn�t know anything about it. They said 'all of our clients that have done this show have really had a great time, and so we think it would be good for you just to go and do it'. So, I grudgingly said, �OK, I�ll go and do the show.� And I had no expectations at all - I had so much fun.

I get to play in an episode where Will Wheaton was guest starring - he had left the show as a regular, but he was guest starring. He was at Star Fleet Academy, and I was this squadron commander, looked like a nice guy on the outside and ended up being the bad guy in the end. We just had so much fun, we laughed, the crew was great it was so much fun - dressing up in the space suit and playing the heightened drama of Star Trek. I just had a great time.