How did you feel settling in to your role?

Always had a problem with the holodeck - from a Janewayan point of view, strictly. I thought she was rooted in reality and I argued deeply, interiorly, with her love of fantasy from the beginning. Particularly when I found myself having a love affair with a hologram: then I thought they�d gone too far.

The holodeck, however, is a very compelling argument for the twenty-fourth century, for this kind of intrepid vessel and for this genre: how would people exercise their imaginations and release themselves under those very difficult constraints? So it�s a practical as well as a rather intriguing device.

I loved the bridge and everything about the bridge. [It was] really tough learning the bridge, learning every console and every configuration of the bridge. Engineering was tough, they were always dashing and hither and I couldn�t quite figure that one out.