As an actor, how much contact did you ever have with Andre Bomarnis, the science advisor?

I had a bit of contact. You know, I directed on that show a lot of episodes and so I think the most contact I had with Andre was probably when I was directing, trying to figure out either how to shoot something and make it seem real, or at least believable. Or just maybe with the story - does a certain concept work?

That's one thing that was great about Star Trek, was to be able to tell these fantasy stories but let have some root in real science. You felt like you were being a bit more responsible than just a silly fantasy show that just made up its own rules. We really did try to bring in scientific philosophy and scientific ideas that haven�t been proven, or things like that, and bring them into our stories.