Is your job more or less finished on this now or is there a lot more to do?

There�s a lot more to do, and it�s all good, it�s all exciting, because we are re-inventing this franchise, starting over literally from scratch. With Deep Space 9 we had empty stages and a blank sheet of paper, now we have that same condition. There was nothing recycled from the Voyager episodes, there was nothing recycled from Next Generation philosophically. We certainly used some stock but you�ll never see that it�s the same stuff at all.

We�ve spent a great deal of money, we�ve spent a great deal of time. It�s been done in a compressed period of time, so there�s a great deal of energy in the execution, a great deal of energy in the cast. This is probably the most perfect cast I�ve ever seen on a television show. Scott Bakula is the quintessential captain of a starship. I think the fans will relate to him easily as well as they related to James T Kirk.