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I'd probably say split
between Janeway and Kirk.

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Kirk.
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I like Avery Brooks, too,
but that's because he's cute.

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Crosby: Who's your
favorite captain?

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Ha ha ha! I am.
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I couldn't pick
one captain over another.

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The emissary!
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The emissary
is different.

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You must remember
the emissary.

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He is most important,
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but to place the others
above the emissary

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would not be right.
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When I got the job,
everybody said,

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"Oh, the Trekkers,
the Trekkies."

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Well, in fact,
they're very smart.

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One has to be smart
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to connect science
with the imagination.

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That's what's
really interesting to me--

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that a show could have fans
that span and bridge

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every sort of
classification.

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Stephen Hawking
and Mel Brooks

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and, you know,
Dr. Marvin Minsky--

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who's head of the robotics
department at M.I.T.--

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or the Mercury astronauts.
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Accountants,
these are lawyers.

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These are people who just
really, really enjoy the program.

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There's this preconceived notion
that they are

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a peculiar bunch of people,
you know?

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I don't think I've ever
met anyone--

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Star Trek fan or not--
who wasn't peculiar.

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I mean, we're all peculiar,
aren't we?

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The word "fan" actually is
an abbreviated form of "fanatic,"

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and there are some people
who fit that category,

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who are the people
who really do need to get a life,

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but most fans are pretty normal people
who have a hobby,

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who have a sense
of the desire to escape,

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and they know it's a show,
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and nobody really gets lost
in it, but it's just fun.

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Woman: We are the largest ship
in the San Diego area.

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We do a lot
of community service.

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We go and visit
abused children in hospitals,

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and we work fairs,
and we're having

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a miniature golf tournament
in two weeks, and--

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Dressed as Klingons?
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Yes.
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You play miniature golf
dressed as Klingons?

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Yes, yes. We're going to donate
the money to charity.

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My name is Marc Okrand,
and what I've done

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is develop the Klingon language
for Star Trek.


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