 
GW: May I ask you a Star Trek question?
NDB: Sure!
GW: Ezri is probably the character you're most known for. Would you have to agree with that?
NDB: Yeah.
GW: After all these years, and I'm sure this is one you get asked all the time, does the ever-greenness of this franchise still surprise you? Even though the television series are in a resting period right now, and now J.J. Abrams is coming back aboard, has this experience changed you in any way? The whole Star Trek experience? Even though you were there for just one season?
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de Boer as Ezri Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
NDB: When I came on -- Hans Beimler -- one of the producers said to me, "This is really going to change your world. This is really going to crazy." And I already had big garbage bags of fan mail on my first day at work waiting for me. So it is crazy, but I really embrace it. I love it. I love the fans.
I've always liked the genre. I was a big fan of [Star Trek] Next Generation. So I was pretty excited to be part of all of that. And I think that it's a great thing. I think the whole J.J. Abrams -- gosh, I would loved to have been a part of that movie.
GW: Paul's in it!
NDB: Yeah, Paul is one of the people! Lucky him, he got to be in it. I think it's kind of cool for it to just be calm for a while and have a resurgence, and do another show where I would be old enough to be captain. [Laughter] And that would be the plan. And then there'd be all sorts of new special effects that we'd be capable of doing by that time. So give it a few years and make me captain.
GW: You don't worry about being typecast? You wouldn't mind coming back to do another Star Trek?
NDB: No, I would totally do it. I really love being in space. It's been fun to do other things that aren't space all the time, but I'm quite comfortable in space. I enjoy it. And you know, you end up doing a lot of stronger things as a woman than just playing some guy's girlfriend or something, if you get guest spots here and there.
A lot of times, non sci-fi it's not that gratifying a role, necessarily, to just be "the chick."
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GW: Yeah, you've got little girls watching you, like Whoopi Goldberg did with Nichelle Nichols. I'm sure you know about that. "There's a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid!" You know?
NDB: Exactly.
GW: Now we have women astronauts. But the world still needs strong female role models with a strong moral center.
NDB: Yeah. And sci-fi is starting to become more like the main stream. That's what everybody's talking about anyway. So I totally embrace it. I love being a part of it.
GW: Yeah, with all the crap in the world, more and more often we need escapism. And that's got to be very gratifying to be a part of.
NDB: It is.
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