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Date Posted: 20:53:33 09/29/01 Sat
Author: Barbara
Subject: Transcript of the Mark & Brian show Part 1 9-26-01

M&B: 8 O'clock UPN tonight, it's an amazing thing; we're all really excited.

S: Hi fellas!

M&B: How are 'ya? It's been awhile.

S: I'm happy. I just noticed that you have these little spit protectors on your mike, and I don't have those.

M&B: You have a spongy thing there.

S: Yeah, but it's not the same.

M&B: We're the big-time deejays. You got spit in there.

S: Oh. That's right, I'm the guest! I got it!

M&B: Oh, he has spit-protector envy. Give Scott a spit protector.

S: I would have been here earlier, but I was circling the studio waiting for the air to clear. I have to follow fart jokes. What was that?

M&B: Biblical fart jokes.

S: Oh. Oh. I say again, "oh!"

M&B: I'm not even sure there's another actor that we can say we have worked with him, not once, but twice. We worked with this man, Scott Bakula, the first time was during QL, we had a call the other day, that episode re-aired the other night, they saw it, and then we worked with him again....

S: I like to think about that as YOUR episode.

M&B: Thank you, we carried it, as we always do. The corn-cob pipe.

S: Always a good choice.

M&B: And then again, was it Clive Barker?

S: It WAS Clive Barker.

M&B: The name of the film....uh....um....

S: I'm not going to help you out. You walked out in this hall all by yourself there, Sonny.

M&B: "Lord of Illusions"

S: I hope you don't have Clive on anytime soon.

M&B: Let me just say, that by this time, Scott and us are friends. We're standing there for this scene in this Clive Barker film, Scott and another actor are going to walk by us at a Magic Club. They go down the hallway, and we're going to be seen in the background. We're supposed to be admiring a painting, we have cocktails in our hands....

S: Was that her name?

M&B: Yes, so, we're standing there and we're taking this very seriously, and in the corner of my eye, I catch Scott just staring at us from the doorway he was supposed to walk out of, off-camera. And we're going, "OK, I'll hold the drink in my left hand, and why don't you give me some shoulder here, and that way we can effect...."

M&B: I wish this wasn't radio so you could see what I'm about to do, but Scott just went.... "oooh, (exasperated sound)". Just dropped his head in disgust. At one point during rehearsal, Scott walked by us and whispered, "Lighten up, boys, it's a movie." So we've worked with him twice, and now he returns to us....by the way, the movie that you did, and I don't know the name, the baseball movie...

S: ML3BTTM

M&B: That was really too good. It was just too good. Liked everything about it. Loved that movie. Who was the actor, he was in "Happy Days", he played your nemesis in that?

S: Ted.... Ted.... Ted McGinley.

M&B: Always fine work, but he went so far over the top. He was great.

S: He was perfect, and there was nothing left to eat on that set. He had eaten it all. Ted's fantastic.

M&B: Some of his looks were hilarious; he didn't even need lines. "It's real!" Now what was your take on that movie after it was all said and done, were you pleased?

S: I loved the message of the movie, and the man that wrote it and directed it, John Warner, was really a great guy. When they called and said, "Do you want to do the third ML?" I said no and hung up the phone. And then they called a couple weeks later and said, "All we hear are great things about the script and the guy directing it is really great, will you just go meet the guy?" And I said no and hung... And then another couple days go by, and they say "just, please, go meet the guy." I met him, and he was fantastic. I said, let's see, go to South Carolina, Charleston, and play baseball for 10 weeks. Oka-a-y, and they're paying me, too! Take the family and live at the beach. Okay, in the fall, it was one of those great jobs.

M&B: That thing were you get beaned by the ball in the back of the head... how loose did they have to make your glasses to fall off like that?

S: I don't remember if we actually made them loose or put a wire on them. We may have put a little.....Oh, gosh! Giving away another show biz secret! Oh, I hate that!

M&B: Plus, don't they put peanut butter under your lip to make it look like you talk?

S: That was Miss Piggy, I think.

M&B: All right, with that response to that question kind of brings us to this next one. You are going to, starting tonight, starring in the next Star Trek. When they made THAT phone call, understanding that this is four or five seasons deep now into one story line, was there any reservation on your part?

S: Well, the first instinct was "no." But it was quickly followed by "it's going to be a prequel." "You're going to be the first captain on the first starship to ever go out to leave this planet." And the carrot got a little bigger then. Well, the FIRST captain, well, that's a whole 'nother story! Cause they're like talking to the ego, there. I go, well, you know! People are asking me "how does it feel to follow Shatner?" And well, technically, he followed me! So the carrot got a little bigger. And I said, we'll see. And I was looking to be in business with.... the guys who run Paramount Television (two names) ran Universal Television when I was doing Quantum, so we go way back. I have a production company with them and we've been looking to do something together, and I said, let me see the script when it comes in. This was before the script ever came out. And then the carrot got a lot bigger because the script was fantastic. And I liked this character so much. The challenges when you're looking at something that's probably going to run a few years, is there going to be anything left? Is there a character you can have fun with a long time? And this guy definitely has enough problems that we can do something with it for a long time.

M&B: Now is this also some of the ST people that have brought us ST over all these years?

S: That was the third piece of the puzzle, that I need to meet Rick Berman and Brandon Braga. I didn't know them; I'd heard nice things about them. But we're going to be talking a lot so I wanted to see how we were going to get along. And they're fantastic guys. Unbelievably collaborative. And my only other big concern was how, what was everybody's level of enthusiasm after all these years. Would it match mine? And that goes down to the crew and the creative people, the designers and everything. And again, being a prequel, everybody's so jazzed. You can't believe what they're doing.

M&B: It has an element of excitement that's amazing.

S: Well, they're reinventing the wheel. The ship's new, the wardrobe's new, and the make-up's new, the sound effects are new, all the special effects are brand new.

M&B: And there are students of the show that will tell you, "no, you can't go down the left hallway because that didn't exist in the first three seasons...."

S: Yes, but not anymore. They were starting to tell me stuff like that in the beginning, and I said, "No, no! no, no!" Said, "where do you think 'stun' would be on this phase pistol? There wouldn't be one." And I said, "no no no no. I'm telling you now, this little lever, this is stun." So, we're having fun with it that way.

M&B: One of the reasons it's such a success over the years, is that each of the characters, it's an ensemble cast, is a microcosm of so many people. Tell us about the crew.

S: Well, there's six other regulars besides myself. My chief engineer is played by Connor Trinear, and he's a southern boy, got the whole (accent) thing going, and he's terrific. So he looks at everything with kind of a little southern twinkle. So he's great. And he and I probably have the most history, we've been on trips before, we have a relationship. My Vulcan science officer is a she.

M&B: Mmmmmm.

S: Oh, we just lost him! He's gone! Shall we just go ahead and go to..... aw!

M&B: Vulcan's been naughty; needs to be punished. Is there a special hallway for that? I've got a Vulcan grip; I'd like to get hold of her!

S: Okay, this'd be time for a cigarette! Anyway, she's great, and she has the unenviable task of playing a Vulcan.

M&B: Is that her? (referring to magazine)

S: That would be Jolene. Jolene Blalock is her name.

M&B: Give her a little nipple grip.

S: She has a very....

M&B: Oh, my gawd! All right, we'll just take a pause.

S: I WAS talking! But now that Maxim is on the table....and you know... meanwhile....

M&B: Let me ask you this....

S: This just became a reading show! You guys were talking about "dead air" before....

M&B: Well, we're just looking at her ni....... She's on the cover of Maxim; that's what we're looking at. In one of the movies, the Vulcan, once we discovered warp drive, a Vulcan ship came down and said, ok, now you're able to come into the brethren of space travel. This happens 150 years from now?

S: It's 2151 today. So the Vulcans have been on earth, and they've been educating us. They've been bringing us along. Our story is based on the fact that as they've been giving us information to build warp engines, and we're finally the first warp 5 engine to go out, which means that now we can seriously go....

M&B: So Vulcans are our friends here?

S: Well, not really. Well, they are and they aren't. Because they... my character's father.... what's great about this show, is that it's very much based here on this planet to start out with. I live in San Francisco, grew up in San Francisco, the opening sequence takes place in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, which is the title of the episode. So the Vulcans have been teaching us and giving us information but at their own pace. My father's an engineer; he's worked on the engine, and I'm basically a space brat, and I grew up in the system. So the Vulcans have... I'm not fond of the Vulcans because they had all the information; they chose not to give it to us in a timely fashion, and my father doesn't live long enough to see this first flight. So I'm not crazy about Vulcans. So our relationship on the ship is not very good. I'm kind of stuck with her. She's the science officer.

M&B: So there's that sexual tension going on, 'cause she's a looker!

S: Well, no there isn't, because she A. is my science officer, and B. she's a Vulcan. And I'm not fond of Vulcans.

M&B: Scott, actor's choice! Fine! Fine!

S: That was the pilot. So then I have Anthony Montgomery is my helmsman and he's a very young, energetic, good-looking young fellow who's....

M&B: So there's sexual tension there.

S: Oh, yeah, actually the show's a very sexy show 'cause everybody... just in the pilot, though! He's a space boomer.

M&B: Captain, do you want to go swimming?

S: No, you go with the rest of the crew, I'll just watch in my private video room.

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