What did you know about Star Trek before you started work in the program?

Absolutely nothing. And I think now in hindsight that it stood me in good stead. I was absolutely ignorant of the process.

Of course, I knew of its reality, you�d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to. But I certainly had not researched it and I was by no means a fan. Science fiction was very foreign to me. So I�m fond of saying I was shot out of a cannon, and I think it was the best way for me.