How did you feel about Janeway�s hair?

They tried to kill me with the hair. Oh yes. They were so concerned that they had actually hired a woman to play the role that they couldn�t quite - and this is also anthropologically fascinating - couldn�t quite get to it on a real level, so they targeted the symbol, which was the hair.

Now I watched this with great curiosity because I love to see how men deal with their deepest anxieties� about will this franchise succeed or will it not, with this woman at the helm. �Well let�s find something that we can all busy ourselves with to such distraction that we go mad.� It was the hair.

They changed it five times in the first season, two, three times in the second. You know, my message to Patrick Stewart is, �You lucky devil.� I mean, it was just constantly a source of anxiety for them, and of course it had nothing to do with the reality.

They should have just left it alone. It didn�t come down very often. Had to be real bad war for that hair to come down, and it was down and then it was up and then it was � it was a million things. Of very little interest to me.