How had it been to work with Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) instead of with Brent Spiner (DATA)?
She answered that it had been marvelous to work with both of them, but also very different. Alice Krige said that she suddenly got panicked one day before going to work on “Endgame”. She had expressed concerns with the producer over the fact that this time everything would be different. With First Contact there had been a lot of sexual energy between her, DATA and Picard. This time, however, her opponent was a woman! He told her not to worry, because the Borg Queen was understood to be “omni sexually,” thus attractive to all sexes! And she thought: “Cool!” – it worked. She was very pleased to come back to Star Trek and into this role. On the first day of shooting she was very nervous. She had worried that the energy of the Borg Queen would be reduced by the fact that “Endgame” was meant for the small TV screen, but it was not like that! She watched the show herself afterwards and saw that nothing had been lost in the transmission. How many hours did you have to spend in the makeup depa
