You are out of Voyager because the series is over. What are you doing now?

Well, it’s been one year since we finished Voyager. I just finished a film for PBS in the United States. I was just in San Antonio, Texas, filming. My last day shooting was this Tuesday and I came to Frankfort on Wednesday. So, that’s the most recent thing I did.

You played Commander Chakotay for seven years, are you being typecast for such a role?

I don’t feel that I was typecast at all. No, it’s just starting over again. For 7 years I wasn’t able to do other projects. The main thing was just getting acquainted with producers and casting directors. The business changes often. Every two or three years there is a whole new crowd of producers and casting directors that you have to meet. I’ve been out of the loop in Los Angeles in the film industry for 7 years because I’ve been occupied with Voyager. It’s a matter to being reacquainted with everybody who’s in the game right now.

Generally speaking, there were rumors that there has been problems working with Kate Mulgrew, Jery Ryan. That there has been much trouble on the set. Could you tell us something about it?

That I don’t like Kate Mulgrew? … No, I like Kate. She is a very strong willed person. However, there are other strong willed people in the cast including myself. Did she do things that sometimes I didn’t like? Yes, so did some of the other cast members and they should feel the same way about me. Did I get angry with her at times? Yes, I did. And she got angry with me at times too; but also other cast members.

Now, that a year has passed, most of that is forgotten. I don’t remember those bad things that bothered me so much at the time. Now I just think of my fellow cast members as good friends that I spent a lot of time with for 7 years. And we still keep in contact with each other.

Let’s leave Voyager now and speak about Enterprise. The new series is out. Have you seen it already and if yes, do you like it?

I haven’t seen Enterprise. I tried watching it, but after having been on Voyager for 7 years, I’m just not interested. I’m not interested in the Star Trek movies either. I’ve already done that, I know what it’s about. I know that there is a certain amount of shakes and bombings and the shields are gonna go down to 20 % , the warp core’s gonna bust and some aliens are gonna try to kill everybody and they’ll make it through. So what’s to see? I already know that. That’s for the fans, I’m not a fan.

If it’s like that, do you still enjoy being to Star Trek Conventions?

I do, because I don’t have my star Trek uniform on, I don’t have a tattoo, and I don’t have to say techno-babble. I can just be myself and I have always said that I enjoyed the fans very much. I enjoy talking to them, I enjoy meeting them, I enjoy answering the questions as honestly as I can. That part of it, I have always enjoyed… Star Trek conventions.

Film business has changed a lot in America during the last seven or eight years, when you were occupied. What is it like for you now?

It’s tougher because big companies now own the television industry and so they've consolidated so much, so that it’s like someone getting out of college and wanting to work for Bill Gates. Where do you start? It’s a huge thing now, the TV industry… If I had my choice I probably would prefer not to do television, just because as an actor it takes so much time when you are doing a series. I would prefer to do film, work for 10 or 12 weeks on a film, finish it and then you are free to do theater which is what I would really like to do. It’s a shame that you don’t get paid as much in theater as you do in television or film. Otherwise I wouldn’t do anything else but theater. That’s why I became an actor.

So everything else is television and films basically. Unless it´s a great role and a great screenplay it´s basically just to stay alive and make money and support myself and live my life. But I don’t go to television for the nourishment of my artistic need. Television is for selling soap.