Season 5
Season five consists of twenty six episodes beginning with the season premiere interview of Nana Visitor of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This season had the very first in-studio guest interview with Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, and J. Suzanne Rampe from Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager join hosts Bryan and Lili. Typically all interviews are recorded remotely and displayed on viewscreen.
01. Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek
Bryan and Lili interview their biggest and most popular guest ever, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Nana Visitor. Visitor discusses her early family heritage and the Charisse vaudeville dancing, plus learning from her mother as a dancer to working on Broadway in New York. The discussion shifts to her being presented with the script for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot episode "Emissary" where she would take the character motivations for Major Kira Nerys. Nana discusses balancing time with her pregnancy, new-born son and long days on set for Deep Space Nine, plus still playing Kira being pregnant. Nana Visitors talks on a new book with assistance from Ben Robinson, including a chapter of the story where Terry Ferrell and Nana herself didn't really lean on each other during the production of DS9 but became close later. Many other stories, particularly from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are shared.
02. Nana Visitor; Her family, Kira Nerys and Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, Part 2
Nana is asked about sharing a cool story and memories of working with guest role actors as her favorites including Louise Fletcher, Aron Eisenberg, Marc Alaimo. The conversation shifts to Nana Visitor specifically talking about a story in her new book Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek on her feelings around Terry Ferrell leaving the DS9 series in season 7. Other topics include Nana's perspective on Ezri Dax. Played by Nicole de Boer plus the many women like Army Champlain Major Mel Bears O'Malley Star Trek inspiration, B'Elanna Torres, and Beverly Crusher as women heroes for fans. Nana also talks about her favorite theatre to perform in plus Broad Stage in Santa Monica along with her favorite jazz pianist and bassist. Nana gives a Star Trek statement for the ages and also being a part of this incredible Star Trek Community along with prosthetics for her Bajoran nose, Cardassian makeup in the episode "Second Skin" Quark's head prosthetics with her body in DS9's "Meridian"
03. Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond
Actor/Producer Sean Kenney voices a preview of his book "Captain Pike Found Alive!", an autobiography of many memories and details of Kenney's journey. Bryan even replicates a copy of Sean's book and gives it to Lili while she enjoys a Samarian sunset replicated drink in his quarters prior to their "Tractor Beam Me" segment with Joanna Ferbrache. The Star Trek news is shared with exciting details that Kate Mulgrew may return as a live action Kathryn Janeway. A clip from the 1966 two-part episode The Menagerie: Part I (1966) is shared as Bryan and Lili interview legendary talent Sean Kenney. The interview is rounded out with a trio of questions about Bill Theiss wardrobe designer, Lucille Ball and Desilu, Desi Arnaz Jr. and makeup stories doing the disfigured Captain Pike in the wheelchair from Star Trek (1966), the original series only two-part episode
04. Sean Kenney - From an unforgettable face on a disfigured Pike to DePaul in Star Trek and beyond, Part 2
Lili asks Sean what it was like working in the chair as Pike and working with Leonard Nimoy. Sean shares extensive memories of Nimoy rarely breaking character, and if he would it was only momentary. Sean shares memories of meeting Joseph D'Agosta, Casting director, plus meeting Gene Roddenberry and a comparison of Kenney and Hunter with super stories about the casting process among many memories. Marc Daniels, the director of the Menagerie advised Sean Kenney to bring his emotions up as much as he can, Kenney elaborates further on working with the Star Trek: Original series director along with his best scene with Leonard Nimoy and becoming emotional. Sean talks about the Menagerie being his first job, screen credit, and the popularity because of the endomorph, ectomorph, and mesomorph different personalities of the three characters Kirk, Spock, McCoy as writers picked up on this.
05. Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles
Julie shares stories working for her first agency in Napa California and how she booked Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, and Bobcat Goldthwait. She speaks about the role of Vekor, the mercenary in the two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Gambit, Part 1 and Part 2". Moreover, Julie shares meeting and being on the sets forStar Trek and Wayne's World 2 film with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith while at Paramount. Julie discuses doing commercials, theater in New York, working with Cyd Charisse. She rounds out the interview talking about guest roles on TV with Burt Reynolds, working on a film with John Travolta and Adam Baldwin. Julie talks the quick timeline of her acting career and how her makeup was prohibitive working on Babylon 5 as Na'Toth. She discuses landing Ty Kajada on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Passenger". She has a story for the ages about doing a table read for the film "Don Juan DeMarco" with Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, and Faye Dunaway.
06. Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 2
Julie Caitlin Brown returns for the second part of her exclusive three-part interview starting with reminiscing about working with Ted Danson on Becker from the episode "He Said, She Said". Julie shares a very real story of her Puerto Rican vacation with actor Jason Momoa plus friends where she hit her head on an obsidian rock natural water slide which caused a temporary brain blood flow issue via diagnosing with Spect scans. Julie shares very in-depth stories behind working with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Director Paul Lynch on the episode "The Passenger" with Ty Kajeda as a role where she was more than a guest-star. She recognized how she had the respect of the new DS9 cast knowing of her theater background and how she had to stand nose-to-nose with Avery Brooks (Commander Sisco) and Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir). Julie shares behind the scenes moments of her knife stabbing scene and many other scenes
07. Julie Caitlin Brown; The quadruple talent, Broadway, musician to sinister Star Trek and Babylon 5 roles, Part 3
A scene with Ty Kajada and Commander Sisco from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode "The Passenger" is showcased. Julie talks Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Gambit, Parts 1 and 2" where she shares her Vekor character worked mostly with Patrick Stewart, and she had scenes with Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn. Julie shares that she was excited to have Robin Curtis on set, Richard Lynch among the cast made the episodes budget a talking point. Julie and her agent forced a call on Star Trek TNG, which is why Julie feels she may not have been invited back. The death scene of Vekor is explained in great detail also doing her own stunt in the cave (Planet Vulcan ancient underground). Julie shares details about prosthetic issues playing Na'Toth in Babylon 5, plus working with Bruce Boxleitner and Andreas Katsulas, who had an eye condition wearing a contact lens in one eye. Julie rounds out the interview with a hat's off to Rod Roddenberry and Star Trek Picard's amazing cast.
08. John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair
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09. John Putch - Roles a plenty, two benzites, a federation journalist and the directors chair, Part 2
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10. David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds
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11. David Mack - Author, Scriptwriter, and Consultant for Star Trek's Finest Worlds, Part 2
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12. Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe
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13. Star Trek stunt superlatives - Tom Morga, Chris Doyle, Suzanne Rampe, Part 2
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14. Tommy Hinkley, from off Broadway to Hollywood and beyond with a memorable Star Trek stop
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15. Tommy Hinkley, from off Broadway to Hollywood and beyond with a memorable Star Trek stop, Part 2
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16. John D. Adams - Award winning Artist, Star Trek column writer, story-editor
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17. Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond
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18. Kay Bess - Star Trek: Picard La Sirena voice and beyond, Part 2
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19. Lou Wagner - Hollywood hero from Planet of the Apes to CHiPs and Star Trek's spinoffs
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20. Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek
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21. Bobby Clark - stuntman, stunt actor - Gorn to Trek, Part 2
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22. Sage Arrindell: Shaping a career in Star Trek and beyond
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23. Charles Picerni, Jr. - Stuntman, Stunt actor, Stunt Coordinator and second unit director
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24. Charles Picerni, Senior and Junior; A family of stunt work in Star Trek and Hollywood, Part 2
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25. Julie Ann Johnson; Stuntwoman, Charlie's Angeles, Hollywood stunts plus a single 1960's Star Trek experience
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26. Gilbert Combs; Award winning fire stunts, car chase stunts, Hollywood stuntman, stunt actor, and coordinator
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