BEHIND-THE-SCENES: [#162 AND #163 WORKFORCE]

screenshots are from [#162 and #162 Workforce]

KATE MULGREW SPEAKS

This Season's been golden (Season 7), all kinds of wonderful dilemmas for Janeway. I particularly enjoyed those wherein she's really faced with herself. I found that in the two-parter we just did, [Workforce, Part Two], where Janeway is temporally displaced, she's in a different time (not true), she's a different Janeway and her humanity was very fully explored in that one. I had to come back to this reality and the devastation of that, the devastation/true science fiction gesture in that was wonderful to play. I loved that, though.

That was fun, that two-parter. Roxann was directing. Robert Beltran had a great thing to do, and I had a lover in it - wonderful actor (James Read). I had fun.

Kathryn and Jaffen get to know each other, pictured on the left in Umali's Bar, and later she moves in with him

Kate Mulgrew in interview

Both of those Janeways, they were wonderful women - the worker, the young woman working in the plant, falling in love, enjoying her life, having the time of her life, and she's brutally interrupted by Captain Janeway, who's there to remind her that in fact this isn't her reality at all. It was wonderful to play, wonderful. That was Star Trek at its best.

Janeway, leaving Quarra: "It may not have been real, Chakotay, but it felt like home. If you hadn't come after me, I never would've known I had another life."

Source: ST DVD

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