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- I would see it on the
television when I was growing up,

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but I didn't know that much about it.

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I mean, of course, I knew
Nichelle and I knew Avery Brooks

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and LaVar Burton and Whoopi Goldberg,

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and I knew them.

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I felt like I could watch
all of it before I started.

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I only had about three
weeks to prepare, right,

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from learning to being on set.

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And I was like, I'm
gonna watch everything.

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And then I was like, aw, no, no, no,

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there's no time for that.

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This is, you know, 50+ years of content.

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It's gonna take me years
to get through all of it.

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So I find that now,

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just now, where there's
a little bit of distance,

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I can, I've been jumping in.

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And, really, I couldn't at the time.

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It's almost like I couldn't see

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the forest through the trees,

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but now I can.

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- [Interviewer] What show
are you gonna start watching

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once this one is done?

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- Oh, I, well, I want to see,

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what I'd like to do is do an episode,

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like, of each, right?

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So it's like, I don't wanna
go all the way with one.

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I wanna be touching each of them.

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So I've seen quite a bit of "TOS"

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because I used it to prepare.

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I've seen quite a bit of "Enterprise"

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because I used it to prepare,

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'cause they had a Vulcan presence.

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But yeah, "Next Gen."

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"Deep Space Nine" I'm least
familiar with, actually,

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so I'll probably start there.

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Pop over to "Voyager,"
pop over to "Next Gen,"

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you know, some later episodes from "TOS."

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And then there's the movie.

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So the season premiere
of the final season,

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season five of "Star Trek: Discovery"

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it's streaming on Paramount+ April 4th.

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