I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.

So we [with Chris Ellis] did [Fresh Hell], and we did the first five episodes as a lark, just to see if anybody would respond or be interested, and we got enough feedback that was positive that we thought, "Let's keep going with this and see if we can flesh it out a bit this season." We've had 10 episodes, and they've been longer and a little more complete.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

[The Aviator] came about through John Logan, who I've been friends with for many years.

We were kind of never one of CBS favorites [with Threshold], even though we'd gotten really good reviews for the pilot. We were on at, what was it, 10 o'clock on a Friday night? That's kind of where you bury a show if you don't want it to last. But, wow, what a cast, huh? You could never get that cast together again.

Radical surgery is never fun.