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Jonathan Llyr, HypaSpace host.
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Llyr: "Enterprise" is in the middle of a three-episode arc that deals with the Vulcans. We spoke with the actor who plays Admiral Forrest, Vaughn Armstrong, and asked him about the episode and why Vulcans are so fascinating...
Vaughn Armstrong (left), and Gary Graham as Soval
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Forrest: "Admiral Maxwell Forrest's personal log: I've arrived on Vulcan, hopeful that the High Command is finally ready to conduct joint missions with Starfleet."
Ambassador Soval: "Admiral, the High Command will tell you its decision at the proper time."
Forrest: "After all we've been through, I'd rather hear the good news from you."
Vaughn Armstrong: He's as much an ambassador as he is anything else, and that's kind of the role I take in the seventh episode. We have a meeting on Vulcan, and I seem to have been elevated to Ambassador.
Soval: "We don't know what to do about Humans. Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellarites; one moment you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic."
Vaughn Armstrong: Spock was such a beloved character. And they have this sort of fatherly, uh... feeling about them. It's as though, uh, they are looking out for us as well as for themselves, and there's a great mystery about them. It's as though we don't know a whole lot about them. They're very dangerous, yet subdued. There's a truculence in there that we seem to want to explore because they want to hide it.
Forrest: "Are Vulcans afraid of humans? Why?"
Soval: "Because there is one species you remind us of."
Forrest: (pause) "Vulcans."
(Commercial break.)
Llyr introduces Mark Askwith (background)
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Llyr: And you might be aware of a gentleman in our Space office, by the name of Mark Askwith; comic book guru, and all-around scallywag. Uh, yes, that guy, the waver. Well, he's been immortalized; or, at least his name has been, in a recent episode of Enterprise. Let me show you what I mean...
Tucker: "The guard recognized whoever it was. And that guard is your patient."
Phlox: "Corporal Askwith?"
Tucker: "He could be our only chance to identify who really planted the bomb."
Phlox: "But he's in a coma. His cranial injuries are substantial. I don't expect him to recover."
Reed: "There must be a stimulant you can inject him with. Something to bring him around, just for a few minutes."
Phlox: "There's only so much damage a human body can withstand."
Tucker: "I don't care about his body, doc. We need what's in his mind."
Llyr: So, there you go. Hey, Corporal Askwith, get your butt over here. Explain to our lovely viewers how this happened.
Mark Askwith: Well, this episode of Enterprise, called "The Forge," was written by Canadians Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, and they're friends of mine; and they thought they would have a little fun, at my expense, and put me in the episode.
Llyr: And you're in a coma.
Askwith: That's the fun they were having at my expense.
Llyr: I think it's typecasting.
Askwith: Thanks.
Llyr: Yeah, yeah, good work. Back to your desk now.
(End of "Star Trek: Enterprise" segment.)
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