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Oh hi Big Bird.
Hi Gordon, I wondered where everybody was.
What ya doin', what ya up to?
Well as a matter of fact I'm on my way down to the department store,
and eh I'm gonna do a little shopping today.
Can I go with you huh?
'cause I love going to big department stores.
Oh well sure Big Bird you can come.
As a matter of fact I was hoping I'd have a little company you know.
Come on. Oh really? Yeah.
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Well I think from the very beginning we've tried to teach respect, eh I don't think we
necessarily felt we had to deal with standing up to intolerance.
I think after 9/11 eh we were all very affected since Sesame Street's produced in New York,
and eh we were in production, and those of us who were travelling to the studio that
day over the triborough bridge saw the destruction, eh saw the cloud, we were very aware of what
was going on, and most of our shows were already written, eh but 4 were not, and so we immediatedly
had a meeting and said 'what can we do in those 4 shows, eh that will somehow resonate
with children?' because children, even though PBS our broadcasting system, and we felt that
Sesame Street should be a safe haven, we said 'Children are not oblivious to what's just
happened, we need to find a legitimate way to deal with it', so we said 'let's do 2 shows
that deal with children's fears, and deal with the trauma', so we had 1 show where Elmo
see's a fire in Hooper store, and it's a powerful show because he's there in the store when
the fire breaks out, and Maria has to tell him to duck
and to get close to the ground and get out of the store.
The fire fighters come, eh they put out the fire, Elmo's scared of the fire fighters,
he's scared of what they're wearing, eh so the fire fighters are wise enough to see that,
and they invite him to come later in the week to the firehouse, and we go to a firestation
in Harlem that actually lost 12 fire fighters in 9/11, and he learns what the fire fighters do,
and he has a lunch with the fire fighters, and we in our own way were paying tribute
to the fire fighters, but also trying to teach children that you can be frightened by things
that are not in your control, but you can see that there are adults who are trying to
protect you, and trying to take care of you.
That was 1 show, and we did another show on fear, and we did 2 shows on the other side,
on standing up to intolerance, so we had Big Bird have a penpal
named Gulliver who was a seagull, who he'd never met.
Eh who says that 'I'm gonna come and visit you, and I can't wait to meet all your friends',
and he comes, and Big Bird wants to introduce him to his best friend Snuffleupagus, and
Gulliver says 'but he's not a bird', eh he said 'no he's a Snuffleupagus', he said 'but
I only play with birds, I can't play with him',
and Snuffleupagus says 'Oh dear you've hurt my feelings'.
So i can represent Enterprise, and you can represent Star Trek: Enterprise.
Of course it only got good once it was called Star Trek: Enterprise.
Exactly
And Bird has to take a stand, and he says 'Gulliver if you can't play with my friend
Snuffleupagus, I can't play with you', and we thought that was an important message for
children to hear, that somehow even as a pre-schooler you have to take a stand about what's fair,
eh and we dealt with another show with a bully.
It was those kinds of messages that we felt were very important we had to teach children.
In the next season we decided to teach cognitively, how to think things through both cognivitely,
how do you ask questions, how do you hypothesize, how do you evaluate, how do you make decisions.
We said socially we need to teach children to be reasonable, to be discerning in order
to become you know citizens of the democracy, how do you think things through socially,
and how do you respect somebody who's different, and those were the kinds of images and messages
that I could tell you in a straight forward way, that our writers are so creative
in coming up with funny ways of teaching it that are both dramatic
and continue to be appealing to children and their parents.
I have a question. OK.
A fan question, I don't think, I don't think I ever got an answer,
why did male crew members wear eh skirts?
Those were dress, the dress uniforms.
You're like what the hell, is that a dude walking?
Ha haha.
(kids playing)
Shut up, everyone just be quiet (dog barking)
I can't think with all this noise, just give me one.
Hi.
I'd like to share the message of Jesus Christ with you.
Oh Jesus.
Yeah.
Uhm you know I have kids here and, and the animals in town and I just, I just, it's a really bad time.
I, see the thing is Jesus and I are really tight,
I mean we talk all the time you know, and he's a...
Oh my God.
What?
Are you staring at my boobs?
What?
The whole Vulcan aspect of the show I stand by 100% Yeah.
Mm hm. Yeah.
A lot of people...
I like that a lot.
I liked it too.
We loved that, just from the beginning, 'cause it to us that was perfect Star Trek.
It was these guys who are friends in Kirk's time.
Right.
We're not friends now.
So why?
But even, even then like what I, there are fans who really still don't like that,
they feel we redifined the Vulcans.
Alright, stay close.
Yeah that felt great, shake.
7 years is a long time to do anything, are you excited about the ending?
Is it a new begiining? Are you sad? How are you feeling?
I'm so relieved haha, you know eh no it's a mixture of, of it's bitter sweet.
It's a mixture of eh, of eh sentimentality that it's over and we'll miss these characters,
but also great relieve that eh, because 7 years is a long time to spend with, with anything.
Right.
Uhm cer... certainly, the photographers bumping into me, get me out of the way eh.
Yeah.
Good that's lovely.
That's a great shot you know let's shake it again.
Yeahhh that's fine.
Shake it again.
Wow wow wow.
Once more.
Give it a good shaking.
Good that's the lot, thankyou very much.
No, I'm kidding.
Uhm but also uhm for me personally moving onto a new series,
this happened on The Next Generation as well,
it's like when one series ends there's another one beginning, so I,
I never feel too sad, I just kind of start to focus on the next one you know, so.
Well let me ask you, how many of you were disappointed with the ending of Voyager?
A good 20% maybe 15% Uhm yeah eh, yeah, I was, I was like beyond uhm, we all were,
except for Kate *laughter* Yeah because she had, she got to play 2 roles, old Kate and old,
and young Kate you know, and so uhm she was having a great time,
How involved were you in writing the final episode?
Just the story, I was only involved in the conception of, of the story and, and the structure
of the story, but I didn't write the script at all.
And are you happy with like how it all came together?
It's great, it's a really good episode, or episodes it's a 2 hour
so, it's, it's very exciting.
It's very exciting.
I sort of looked around and everybody was going
"I actually might have something to do here next week".
and the rest of us were kind of going, we couldn't wait for the show to end,
because that whole season, that whole season the producers were… they couldn't wait for our show, the
Voyager to finish seventh season so they could now start working on their baby Enterprise *laughter*
Where they wouldn't have any Gene Roddenberry influence at all,
they could do whatever they wanted.
Brannon Braga and... so you see what happened with that *laughter* eh little experiment.
So yeah eh we were all pretty much uhm disgusted with the whole final season, I would say.
And the finally the last question, this show has a lot of loyal fans,
the series has a lot of loyal fans.
Why do you think people so identify with this?
It's the, it's the most eh often asked question, uhm and I don't have a simple answer eh to it,
I wish I knew, but I, I think eh part of it has to do with the quality of the show,
you know we tried to, it's very well produced, it's, it's generally well written, sometimes not
eh, and also it depicts a future where people would like to be, unlike a lot of science-fiction
which is very apocalyptic and grim, this depicts a future where we made it, and one thing I've,
and humans are doing OK you know, uhm, and one thing I've found in working on the franchise
for 11 years is that people pass it on to their kids, they want to pass on Star Trek
to their kids for, because they thought it was cool growing up,
and of course you're always trying to get your kids,
and some of the kids probably reject it, and say "Dad you nerd".
Right.
But some of the kids take it, and it's just it's been around for a long time,
there's a new series for each new generation, and people are just continuing to be into it.
It's a mystery really, I, I don't really know.
Haha you have no idea.