I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship...

When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!