KATE MULGREW ON HAVING A WOMAN IN THE MAIN ROLE

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KATE MULGREW ABOUT HER COSTUME Source: STN

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KATE MULGREW ON TECHNOBABBLE

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KATE MULGREW ON A ROMANCE BETWEEN JANEWAY AND CHAKOTAY

From Mania Magazine, August 1998:

KATE MULGREW: I have begged that Chakotay and Janeway have a deep and intense relationship. I want him as my confidant, and that means that we're going to cross over all kinds of lines together, in the privacy of my quarters, or his. Things will be said between us that nobody else on the crew will know about. We're going to have secrets, like good friends do-- they don't talk about their relationship to their acquaintances. I'm not going to sleep with him; it's too late now, if it would have happened it would have happened before.

From ST Monthly, August 1998:

KATE MULGREW: I think it's time something happened between them. [However, Mulgrew explains that she would like to see her character have a serious relationship or none at all.] I think sex for a female Captain is not the same as for a male captain. I'm not being sexist, but who wants to see their female captain running around having love affairs? I have a ship to run! I don't think I can afford that kind of indulgence at the moment but I can afford an intimate relationship with someone I love very much.

MISCELLANEOUS OFF-SCREEN MOMENTS

Ethan Phillips and Kate Mulgrew off-stage. Source: STN

Kate Mulgrew walks into camera shot and as Janeway she firmly gives the order, "Red alert!" Source: STN

KATE MULGREW INTERVIEW DURING SEASON SIX

Thanks to Andy Weller for sending me this interview, source unknown.

KATE MULGREW: I will be returning for the seventh season of Voyager. So much has happened to me in the past year, from looking at myself in the mirror and realizing that time is very precious. I was prepared, I think, to make some very significant changes at Voyager if my bosses were not inclined to acknowledge my need for time, and they did. I wanted to finish the series because Janeway would not reneg - she would complete this mission, and that's what I'm going to do. My ego is involved in this, my deepest feelings, not the least of which is the fact that I was the first female captain. So I'm going to complete this with as much panache as I can.

I had a great dinner with Brannon Braga, went over my great wishes for this season. I really want a featured episode with Roxann and one with Bob where they are integral to what's happening not only on the ship but with me. I have a very close personal relationship with both of them, and I feel that Roxann has suffered a bit in the past year. We talked about a love interest - I think that there will be love for Janeway this season in an ongoing arc. It's got to be big, and it's got to be real; it's also got to be intriguing. So we're hatching that right now. I want it to be very provocative, I don't want it to be even remotely predictable. I think it's a big, growing surprise to Janeway, it dawns on her, this need, and then she just goes like nobody's ever seen her go before. And we'll see the consequences of that.

I have heard that they are hatching another show as well [which we all now know was [Enterprise]]. In this year that we stand alone, I want it to be really great. It's like being a member of a large family and suddenly everyone goes away to college and you have the house to yourself. I have a pretty good feeling, with the Braga-Moore combination, there's going to be a lot of action, and science fiction at its very best. Brannon is a provocateur, his intelligence is borderline dangerous. I think that he will take science fiction to new heights.

I think Arachnia was a surprise to them - that I do farce, that I do comedy, thatI do love, that I do all of that. Now they just have to let me go, so I can do that in the confines of, say, the bridge, with the same ease. There's no reason there can't be laughter, there's no reason why there can't be badinage and a degree of farce in all of this. We all get to change. Part of it is my relaxing, just letting myself go. I have pretty high confidence now, and I think that they see that. I don't have any problems any more with her professionalism, her demeanor. Her command is in place. Now it's time to give it a much broader base and let everybody else fly too. I feel better than I have ever felt about it. Relaxation and personal happiness have so much to do with what goes on at work. I feel a renewed sense of committment and fun, so I'm just going to go in there and kick it, as my son would say.

From an interview with Kate Mulgrew in ST Monthly, about the final episode:
KATE MULGREW: I hope that we don't wuss out. It should have a very strong, stunning ending. The viewers have invested in the characters, and it's payoff time.

WHAT WOULD KATE MULGREW LIKE TO TAKE WITH HER FROM THE 24TH CENTURY? KATE MULGREW: The tricorder, without question. The most evolved, sophisticated and consummate piece of technology that we have at our disposal in the 24th century. It scans, it assesses; often it can conclude. It is a tool of engineering, a tool of diagnostics - absolutely indispensable. Source: ST Monthly

Tricorder in service configuration TRICORDER: specifications, pictures, and how to operate a tricorder

LIFE AFTER THE SHOW ENDS

KATE MULGREW: [about possibly returning to episodic television] I would have to say, because I'm not stupid, that never say never, and never say die! It's absurd to be definitive about anything at any point in life, because life changes, but I am certainly hoping to take a break, to spend a lot of time with my husband and my sons, and spend some time in the theatre, which is my first and great love. Source: ST Monthly