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- Would you like to finish it, Captain?
- I don't know how.
- That is not true, sir.
- [Hector] Normally, "Star Trek" is thought of
as having near perfect characters
that have no major flaws or vices,
but your character is very complex
and has some troubles.
So what was it like to play this type of character
in the world of the future Earth utopia that is "Star Trek"?
- I love it, I love it.
I think she's perfectly imperfect.
I think she's more human than
any character I've ever played.
You know, maybe not everybody, but I think
the majority of us are haunted by things
that we've done in the past.
Maybe we have regrets, maybe we wish we were someplace else,
maybe we wish we had taken a different turn.
And I love the fact that Raffi's a really smart woman.
She's really trying to be there
for the people who need her.
- It's definitely different than any other project.
We're going in and it's already established
and it already has an incredible fan base.
People are expecting it, people can't wait.
It's kind of (laughs) a dream come true
to have a (laughs) built-in audience
(Hector laughs) already.
But it's also amazing to see how,
going back and watching 'Next Generation,'
and getting to see what elements we take from that,
and then grow on with.
- [Hector] Alison, what was the most difficult
piece of medical technobabble that you had to pronounce?
- I can't remember.
It's so funny, because I honestly, it's not that I get--
- [Hector] You just nailed it
every time. - (laughs) Well,
I don't struggle a lot with babble most,
generally, pretty good with the babble.
But I will also say, yes, there were moments
of real exposition where we just have to talk about
which planet and why, but there's so little fiction
in the midst of the interpersonal relationships
on board that it is kind of an easy story to tell,
because it remains such a human story to tell.
- [Hector] Evan, question for you.
What is your key to playing a Romulan?
- That's actually a really good question.
Before I landed the part of Elnor,
I knew a lot of stuff about Romulan culture and stuff,
(Michelle laughs) but once I read the script,
I found myself having to question a lot of stuff I knew.
All I can really say is, he wasn't raised
the typical way that Romulans were,
he's had a very different upbringing,
and it shows in the show.
I can't say how, but it's very, very obvious.
- [Hector] Does he suffer from any PTSD
from losing his home world?
- He has a sense of abandonment, and there's almost like,
he almost has this blissful ignorance.
He doesn't quite understand how the world operates.
- Mm-hm. - And it was very
fun going into things and just experiencing them
how he would experience them for the first time,
I mean, like lying.
- Mm-hm. - He didn't know
what lying was. - Isn't it great?
- And for him to just, for someone to go up to him
and be like, "I've got a carrot on my head,"
he would take that word.
- [Michelle] (laughs) "Where is the carrot?"
- [Evan] Yeah, "Where is the carrot?
(Michelle laughs) "I believe you,
"but I just don't see it."
- [Hector] Santiago, what was the most difficult part
of fake piloting a futuristic spaceship?
Or was it just super fun?
- Well, it's trusting that they were gonna put
(Hector laughs) the holograms there,
and then-- - But you're still not
entirely certain. (laughs) - Which I'm still
not sure about.
On the train the other day, yeah,
I've done some ADR, and they're not there yet.
(Hector and Alison laugh)
- [Hector] Did you do any research for that?
Did they tell you to look at any--
- Well, I was kind of, the first research
was gonna watch "Star Trek" and just see
how they would pilot when it was just sort of like this,
but we managed to get a little sort of control in there.
And for me, it was looking at maps of the Federation,
where it was, where the other planets were,
where the Neutral Zone was, and I kinda had those
stuck on my wall at home, just to kind of have
some sort of geography of where
we were going. - So you--
- And I ended up coming up with, I would always do
certain patterns for things to be consistent,
so when we took off, it wasn't just a random thing,
I had two buttons and this thingy.
- [Hector] And you'd communicate that
so that, again, the special effects people know--
- Yeah, they're there, so you can ask them anything,
and, yeah, so, like, right.
- It's pretty magical.
- Yeah.
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