Trying to get Warp 11.

That was a lot of fun for me. I know the audience had mixed feelings, some people loved it, some people hated it, but that�s that way with every episode, I think.

It was a lot of fun for me - it was like The Elephant Man episode, I get to transform into this creature! The episode about Warp 11 was called Threshold. The Star Trek legacy says that we can only reach Warp 10, Warp 10 is as high as you can go, is as far as you can go. It�s like the sound barrier was, fifty years ago, people thought, �Well, you can�t break the sound barrier, if you go faster than the speed of sound you�re just going to disintegrate.� So it was that experience translated into Star Trek. But what happened when my character figured out a way to go to Warp 11, to change the shuttle so that it could go to Warp 11... I went into this euphoric experience, it was like a surreal out of my body experience, so when I came back, it was like I had taken this acid trip and just was having flashbacks, and it was just so � everything was so wonderful. And then it started to restructure my genetic make-up.

So the idea in our story was, once you passed Warp 10, you�re gonna speed up your evolution within your own body, so you�re going to start evolving into what humans will be, a million years from now or something. That�s the effect of Warp 11 in our story. So my character got to go from eager break the sound barrier, to having broken it and the euphoria of that, to, all of a sudden, this confusion of what�s happening. My body starts evolving, my skin starts peeling off, I turn into this bizarre lizard like creature, and everyone�s horrified by what�s happening to me. I just think it�s great and I�m very proud of this whole experience, even though I�m turning into this horror creature.

It was a lot of fun, for me, as an actor, to be able to go through all of those really high level emotions and get to put on prosthetics and act, chew the scenery like The Elephant Man.