Star Trek Ladies: Nana Visitor | Deep Space Nine, Part 2

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“Every new Star Trek show ‘ruins’ Star Trek.” – Nana Visitor
In the second episode of their two-part conversation, Susan and Sharon open a channel into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Nana Visitor who starred as “Kira Nerys” on the classic television series. Nana reflects on the differences between working in television then vs. now, balancing work and personal life -- and what it’s like to forever be a part of the singular Star Trek family.

THE CONVERSATION

• GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS: Auditioning for L.A. Law – casting director Junie Lowry told her, “You’re not getting it. But there is a show you’d be great for…” Yes - It was DS:9
• On the demands of a Star Trek television show: "Deep Space Nine was forty-nine of the best years of my life. I know it was just seven. But it felt like forty-nine.”
• On Star Trek - Discovery: “Women are writing, women are directing, women are executive producing... Women being in the room changes the dynamic.”
• On the set: David Hasselhoff or Andy Griffith? Daniel Hugh Kelley or Brian Keith? Who was “lovely”? And who definitely was not?
• On attending a Star Trek convention: “It was like a flock of exotic birds had descended. It was fascinating.”
• Being a role-model: What was it like talking to astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti while she was in orbit on the International Space Station as Cristoforetti told Nana she followed her dreams into space because of Kira Nerys?
• On Sci-Fi fandom: “A percentage of (the fans) are weirdos, but if you take any apartment building in New York – it’s the same percentage. And it’s wonderful.”
• Doing Cameos for parents who named their daughters “Kira”.
• On being a working actress and a mother: “I was in labor on the set. And I went behind the set to get through the worst of it… I tried to have my baby and have it bother no one. And I said to myself, ‘If anyone has to suffer because I’m working and I have an infant, it’s gonna be me’. And that’s not sustainable.”

So join Susan and Sharon – and Nana – as they talk Avery Brooks, podcasting with your son, managing fear -- and “Opening A Channel” to greater opportunities for women!
AUDIOGRAPHY
Visit the “Nana Visitor Library” on Youtube.
Listen to Nana Visitor’s podcast, Sunday Dinner with Nana and Django.
Find Nana Visitor on Instagram and Twitter.
Pre-order Nana Visitor's book: Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek
Where to begin? How to Watch Star Trek in chronological and release order on ToyNK.
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