Happy Birthday René Auberjonois! LLAP

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I would not recommend anybody holding their breath, ... Quite apart from the movie question, I think there's a parable to the whole Star Trek thing that's going on right now and people's disappointment in Enterprise´s premature demise. When you have a field, and you plant the same thing in the field year after year after year, there's a certain point where the crop just begins to weaken. You have to let a field go fallow for a while. And I think that's what we're seeing right now ... It's not the end of Star Trek, but I think there will be a period now in which it lies fallow. And then hopefully, because of people like you who keep the dream alive, it will come back. And hopefully it will be strong and vital.

Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke ich, dass es eine Parabel für die ganze Sache um Star Trek und die Enttäuschung über das vorzeige Ende von Enterprise gibt. Wenn man ein Feld hat und man Jahr für Jahr das gleiche anpflanzt, dann gibt es einen gewissen Punkt an dem die Ernte eingeht. Man muss das Feld für eine gewisse Zeit ruhen lassen. Und ich denke, dass sehen wir im Moment gerade... es ist nicht das Ende von Star Trek , aber ich denke, dass jetzt eine Periode folgen wird, in der es brach liegt. Und dann wird es hoffentlich wiederkehren, weil die Leute wie ihr den Traum am Leben halten. Und hoffentlich wird es stark und lebendig sein.

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.

The truth is the worlds of Star Trek that we inhabited were so far apart.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

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

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

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.

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.

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

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

I'm never going to retire.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

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.