Would you say playing with sci fi is the most fun that actors and writers can have on a TV programme?

Science fiction, to use Orson Welles� analogy, is the greatest train set of all time. You can portray things that don�t have to have a foundation in our everyday world.

It also makes it difficult, because if you�re doing a lawyer�s show or a doctor�s show, you can research and easily determine what the parameters are of this particular operation or this legal case. On the other hand, you really can let your imagination fly, and it�s just so much fun.

On our show, Farscape, it allows us to create characters and alien civilisations that really are unique, using every bit of our imagination. You really feel like a creator when you�re creating an episode of a science fiction series.

The Borg, Romulans, Klingons, Vulcans, all these have become absolute icons to us in terms of science fiction, not just for television, but for film and books and everything else. Go up to any schoolkid and they probably know what a Vulcan is or what the Borg are, and can very possibly tell you more about the history of the Vulcans and the Borg than they can about their own national history.