Did you feel any pressure of the inheritance and legacy, and what you were actually letting yourself into?

I did a little bit, because of The Next Generation, I knew what those actors� experience had been. That show had been such a phenomenon, I mean, there were no other sci-fi shows really popular at the time. The Next Generation also created the direct syndication mould, no one else was doing that. Paramount created that for Star Trek, they said, �Well, if the networks don�t want another series, we�ll just sell it directly to the people,� and it took off, and now it�s spawned all sorts of syndicated hour dramas or action shows. Hercules, Xena, all those shows came out of that Next Generation mould, no one had ever done that before.