Kate reflects on Voyager and Thanks the fans Transcribed text by Saffron
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Thank you. Thank you very much. This is a little overwhelming. Please. Thank you. Thank you so much. I’d like to say to those of you who are from Cleveland, that I can now say, with some conviction, that I’m home at last. [Cheers] There are a lot a ways to know that you’re finally home. You find your husband in your bedroom—in your bed. The young girls helping you cook in the kitchen don’t have bumps on their forehead. If they have any bumps at all, they’re the normal kind. Catch phrases like "just do it" are usually followed by "or I’ll kill you." So I know I’m home. But the seminal moment of coming home happened on Wednesday night when I watched my season finale—[cheers & applause] Thank you.—with my love step daughters and my beloved husband. And I said to myself this will be easy. I’m prepared. I spent weeks saying, "I’m fine. I’m relieved. It’s over. Now I can live my life. I have mixed feelings, but I’m going on. This is great." I cooked a meal—a facsimile of a meal [laughter]—and we sat down, and I started to cry and I did not stop, and here I go again. And every time one of my beloveds appeared on the screen, Robbie, Roxann, Bob Picardo, Ethan—my soul…I fell apart immediately. So what happened, of course, Wednesday night was the very brutal finish to something that has meant clearly an enormous amount to me. It has redefined me in many ways as an actress, as a mother, and as a human being. But, when I went to bed that night, and by the way, I slept for an entire day after than night. That’s allowed, isn’t it? I said to myself, and to my husband—that’s a bit like talking to myself, isn’t it?—I said, "I’m proud. I’m deeply proud. I set the bar high for Janeway and I did not deviate from day one. [applause & cheers] I love this character and everything she allowed me to do. She’s a better woman than I am, but she allowed me to put flesh on her skeleton with my humanity, with my laughter, with my flaws, with my own particular and peculiar kind of courage, and with my passion for other people. Everyday was a challenge. How am I going to take her deeper? What nuances, what subtleties can I endow her with today? Is this going to be a 15-, 16-, 17-hour day? Towards the end, I was putting in 85 hours a week when I was playing both Janeways and I was in heaven. The great struggle in these last seven years has been on a more personal level. Very hard for my young sons, uh, to experience their entire adolescence watching their mother in the captain’s seat. But as I said in the beginning, "Kids, if I can seduce a million other young guys, I'm sure I can work a little magic on you." "No way, Mom. You can forget it."
But the chapter itself, as it comes to a close, I think is greater than I expected it would be. And I am certainly left feeling far more vulnerable than I expected to be and there are certain things I feel I must say to this particular groups. This is call "Women of Star Trek" so I’m going to appeal now to the women and then I will to the man, whom I adore as you know. l but let me deal with the women first. I want every woman in this room—and if she has a daughter at her side, I want that daughter to know—that without you, without this support, this extraordinarily strong foundation, your unconditional belief and fidelity in Janeway as the first female captain, this series would not have lasted. And I cannot thank you now or ever for the fidelity. [applause & cheers] You know, women die for men. They do insane and bizarre things for men, don’t they? They travel thousands of miles, they have thousands of children, they become alcoholics. They do anything to get their man, but it has been my personal experience that there’s nothing like a woman for allegiance. Women are emotional and woman are occasionally changeable. Woman are multi-layered and complicated and it’s true, gentlemen, that a woman can be very difficult to handle, but in my life, they have been one true constant source of love, comfort and joy and I say to every woman in this group, as I do to the entire country, and all the viewership who are woman, without you, it simply couldn’t have been done, and it could not have been done with the same happiness that I have experienced for 7 years and so I thank you. [applause & cheers] I want to thank your male counterparts for having faith in me. In the beginning, I’m sure that was tough, especially for you young ones, right? Coming into ‘hormonal hell.’ [laughter] Who is that woman with that funny-looking bun doing sitting in that chair? How can I possibly trust her to run this ship? I hope I didn’t let you down. I tried not to. And to your fathers, I say double thanks, because obviously, you allowed your sons to watch it, didn’t you? continued in - Kate's acknowledgements |
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