What do think of Star Trek's success since that first film? I think it deserves the success. I don't think anybody made science fiction as well as Gene Roddenberry.  That man's thoughts! I don't know where he got his thinking from. He was blessed. I mean, every Star Trek episode you saw was just phenomenal.  Gene Roddenberry was a genius. I've got him in a framed picture right here in front of me. He wrote on it, "To my dream alien..." There was nobody like him. He was a lovely person.

Star Trek has a fan following like nothing else. How did you feel about the fans' reaction to you? A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role. I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.  Everyone had told me that I'd be going to a million conventions, but I just went to the one. Maybe my agents didn't tell me when they invited me. Maybe people were trying to protect me because they didn't want me going to any of them, but I enjoyed it and I didn't think it was strange.