A Captain's Log - 5 ª Season

Lili Fox-Lim enters the studio quickly to find Bryan Kreutz is not who he appears to be at the start of the show. Quickly, we switch to Bryan walking briskly through the familiar Star Trek TNG era corridor, a common aesthetic setting for the A Captain's Log talk show series, where Bryan says to himself he's running late for the interview with Nana Visitor. Bryan and Lili interview their biggest and most popular guest ever, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Nana Visitor. Visitor discusses her early family heritage and the Charisse vaudeville dancing, plus learning from her mother as a dancer to working on Broadway in New York. The discussion shifts to her being presented with the script for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pilot episode "Emissary" where she would take the character motivations for Major Kira Nerys. Nana discusses balancing time with her pregnancy, new-born son and long days on set for Deep Space Nine, plus still playing Kira being pregnant. The discussion of Nana Visitors new book with assistance from Ben Robinson is a heavy topic including a chapter of the story where Terry Ferrell and Nana herself didn't really lean on each other during the production of DS9 but became close later. Many other stories, particularly from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are shared.

Bryan assures Star Trek Deep Space Nine fans that he and Lili are committed to finishing their interview with the amazing Nana Visitor. A reminder that Nana Visitor was winner of the OFTA best actress award multiple years is conveyed as Nana is asked about sharing a cool story and memories of working with guest role actors as her favorites including Louise Fletcher, Aron Eisenberg, Marc Alaimo. The conversation shifts to Nana Visitor specifically talking about a story in her new book Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek on her feelings around Terry Ferrell leaving the DS9 series in season 7. Other topics include Nana's perspective on Ezri Dax. Played by Nicole de Boer plus the many women like Army Champlain Major Mel Bears O'Malley Star Trek inspiration, B'Elanna Torres, and Beverly Crusher as women heroes for fans. Nana also talks about her specific favorite theatre to perform in as an actor/dancer plus Broad Stage in Santa Monica along with her favorite jazz pianist and bassist. The interview concludes with Nana giving a Star Trek statement for the ages and also being a part of this incredible community (Star Trek Community) along with prosthetics for her Bajoran nose, Cardassian makeup in the episode "Second Skin" Quark's head prosthetics with her body in DS9's "Meridian" and more about her book, Ben Robinson and the women of Star Trek. Bryan and Lili introduce a new rapid fire questions segment conceived of by writer Scott "Chip" Selstad called rapid fire questions with Nana who obliged, and answers quick questions likely never asked of her before.

Actor/Producer Sean Kenney voices a preview of his book "Captain Pike Found Alive!", an autobiography of many memories and details of Kenney's journey. Bryan even replicates a copy of Sean's book and gives it to Lili while she enjoys a Samarian sunset replicated drink in his quarters prior to their "Tractor Beam Me" segment with Joanna Ferbrache. The Star Trek news is shared with exciting details that Kate Mulgrew may return as a live action Kathryn Janeway. A clip from the 1966 two-part episode The Menagerie: Part I (1966) is shared as Bryan and Lili interview legendary talent Sean Kenney who talks about his hometown native Boston experience singing in a choir and how Sean's grandfather known as "The Irish nightingale" was a very talented singer, but unfortunately was never recorded. Sean talks about being discovered by a Hollywood agent at his play who led him to the casting office at Paramount where he met with Gene Roddenberry in his office not knowing who Roddenberry was at the time. Sean responds to Lili's question about his similarities in look with actor Tom Sellick and working together with his friend. A video clip is shown in a scene between Sellick and Kenney from the TV series Doctors' Hospital as Sean explains in detail. Kenney continues the interview talking about doing TV pilot stories, plus the 1973 Tom Sellick starring film he did titled Terminal Island and more. The interview is rounded out with a trio of questions about Bill Theiss wardrobe designer, Lucille Ball and Desilu, Desi Arnaz Jr. and makeup stories doing the disfigured Captain Pike in the wheelchair from Star Trek (1966), the original series only two-part episode from Sean Kenney's perspective.

Bryan and Lili share a New York Comic Con 3 minute teaser of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 opener to refresh viewers for the impending premiere. Harper Dhadde makes her debut of also quizzing the quips of Star Trek's most knowledgeable Trekkie, Lili, with a "Tractor Beam Me" segment. Lili asks Sean what it was like working in the chair as Pike and working with Leonard Nimoy. Sean shares extensive memories of Nimoy rarely breaking character, and if he would it was only momentary. Sean shares memories of meeting Joseph D'Agosta, Casting director, plus meeting Gene Roddenberry and a comparison of Kenney and Hunter with super stories about the casting process among many memories. Kenney opens up the discussion with screen test stories regarding his makeup and the fantastic factual story about the scar he had as the disfigured Christopher Pike in the Menagerie. Marc Daniels, the director of the Menagerie advised Sean Kenney to bring his emotions up as much as he can, Kenney elaborates further on working with the Star Trek: Original series director along with his best scene with Leonard Nimoy and becoming emotional. Sean talks about the Menagerie being his first job, screen credit, and the popularity because of the endomorph, ectomorph, and mesomorph different personalities of the three characters Kirk, Spock, McCoy as writers picked up on this. Lastly, Sean shares how he gets calls, emails and fan messages from across the world in Italy and elsewhere thanks to putting his book and autographed pictures up for fans to receive on his website.

Bryan beams into greet Lili and Trekkies at the start of the show while preparing to introduce their guest Julie Caitlin Brown. Julie shares how her career was started after singing in church then doing musicals in San Francisco and Berkely California. She expounds upon how she became an agent for rock bands and comics when she was 21. She discusses how she worked for her first agency in Napa California and how she booked Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, and Bobcat Goldthwait. She goes on to discuss a timely story of playing the role of Vekor, the mercenary in the two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Gambit, Part 1 and Part 2". Moreover, Julie shares meeting and being on the sets for her Star Trek Next Gen show and Wayne's World 2 film with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith while at Paramount. Julie discusses having the challenges of Scoliosis with a brace for several years while wanting to be in musicals and playing sports. Julie discusses getting encouragement via the North bay company to continue doing theater then also doing her own one-woman cabaret show. Later, Julie discuses doing commercials, theater in New York, working with Cyd Charisse. She rounds out the interview talking about guest roles on TV with Burt Reynolds, working on a film with John Travolta and Adam Baldwin. Julie talks the quick timeline of her acting career and how her makeup was prohibitive working on Babylon 5 as Na'Toth then onto Guinevere Corey with no makeup. She discuses the timeline of when she landed Ty Kajada on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season one episode "The Passenger". She has a story for the ages about doing a table read for the film "Don Juan DeMarco" with Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, and Faye Dunaway.