They’ve got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they’re not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn’t, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

And so I’ve always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

I love the fact that it’s not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn’t just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn’t a chance to go deeply into the characters.

I’m never going to retire.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don’t recognize you by your voice.

So, yes, the five years that we’ve been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

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