By GustavoLeao / 18:07, 27 June 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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NewsOK posted a new interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actress Denise Crosby and here are few excerpts of the article.

Crosby said following the popularity of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek film, she's hoping to make a Trekkies 3 that will touch on the new Star Trek movie and its actors and fans as well as visit places not covered by the previous films.

"Our intention was always to make a ‘3,' to have a triple box set. And there are areas I still want to go to. ‘Trekkies 1' was domestic and ‘Trekkies 2' we went global, but we didn't get everywhere," she said.

"And I'm curious still, to make it a full circle about Asia, Africa and India, like what's going on there. Sort of our ‘Lost in Translation' version of ‘Trekkies.'"

NewsOk also posted a Q&A session with Crosby and here are excerpts.

Q. Do you have any regrets now about leaving "Star Trek: The Next Generation"? (Crosby left the show during its first season.)

A. You know, at the time it was so very frustrating for me. It was just wearing thin that we were a big ensemble cast and so many days and weeks were spent where I'm just going "Aye, aye, captain" and just sort of standing around and not having a story line. I think I was 29 or 28, and you are really hungry then to have some meat to chew on. So for me it was "What is going to happen? Where are we going to go with this?" and I just couldn't see spending six more years doing that. Now at that time, you're young; I don't have children to put through school or house payments to make or all that stuff that gets you to a different place financially. So if you're going to take a shot and roll the dice, that's when you do it. But little did I know how much more involved I would continue to become in this show. I would come back, I would play another character, I would make two documentaries about it. And of course I didn't realize then how this character of Tasha Yar really impacted people. You don't know those things when you're doing it. A lot is revealed through time.

Q. What did bring you back for those guest appearances?

A. I got a call from one of the producers that a script had been written where Tasha is alive on this ship and would I be willing to come in and play. And I said, "Well, yeah. It sounds really intriguing." And they sent me the script, which was "Yesterday's Enterprise," and it was incredible. It was absolutely one of the best-written "Next Generation" scripts, and I was thrilled to do it. And then that coming back opened up the idea that what if, because you don't really know, she volunteers to go back on this ship to fight this battle where everyone dies. But what if she was captured? I came up with this whole idea if maybe she had this baby, and I pitched this story to the producer. And he kind of looked at me, and I thought ... well that'll be it. A couple of months later they wrote the character of her daughter, so I just kept going. I'm always thinking of new scams. What else can you do here? Again, because the genre lends itself to all these possibilities.

And it's intriguing with the new film being so popular and igniting a whole new generation of fans, and all the little kids are discovering "Next Generation" just like we did the original. It's really funny. I have a, well he's soon to be 11 actually, my son. So his friends, sometimes I'll pick them up for the carpool, and they go, "Were you really on the ‘Next Generation'?" I went over to visit his school the other day ... and this boy said, "Were you really on ‘Star Trek'? I said, "Yeah, actually." And he said, "What did you play?" And I said, "Well, I was Lt. Tasha Yar on ‘The Next Generation.'" He said, "Wow! Your mom really is cool!" He said that to my son. It was so funny, I mean priceless, priceless.

Q. The best thing is that he thinks it's cool.

A. Yeah, exactly. It could have gone the other way - just awful. I could have been a principal on "iCarly" or something and he would run away from me.

Q. Do you think it's cool to be a "Star Trek" fan?

A. Well, I think it's finally OK to be a geeky, sci-fi nerd, with all of the - and it's taken a lot of stuff to happen for this to be OK - and that's all of the technogadgets and all of the incredible computer stuff that we've experienced, quickly, in the last 25 years and all of the supergeeks who are like the bazillionaires of the universe and all of this stuff to have happened.

Q. Have you seen the new movie?

A. No, I have not. I tried to; we were invited. I was invited by the Roddenberry family; they had a screening at Paramount, and my son had a lacrosse tournament that day. So I said after lacrosse, "Why don't we go see ‘Star Trek.' He said, "I don't want to see that. That's not the real ‘Star Trek' - you're not in it. And I said, "Oh God, no, no, no, no, no." So it was so sweet; it was the sweetest thing. "That's not real ‘Star Trek'! That's like fake ‘Star Trek.' You guys are the real ‘Star Trek.'" I had to explain, "Well there's been a few of us."

More from Crosby at the full interview here and here