By GustavoLeao / 19:52, 5 October 2011 / Voyager

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The Morton Report posted a new interview in which former Star Trek Voyager star Kate Mulgrew talks about her new Adult Swim series NTSF:SD:SUV (National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle). Here are excerpts.

“It’s insane. It’s a send up of everything I’ve ever done in my life, including my own life,” jokes Mulgrew. “I mean, Kove is just terrific. She’s madly in love with Trent [Paul Scheer], who she’s been married to as well as divorced from twice, and they have two children who do not speak but are karate champions. She’s also the head of this terrorist strike force, but all she really wants is to get her ex-husband back.

“So she’s obsessed with Trent, obsessed with sex, obsessed with plutonium, and obsessed with keeping San Diego a second-rate city. On top of everything else, I get to do my own hair with this character, which I think is absolutely divine. What more could a girl ask for? It’s all delish.”

“I have played serious women throughout my entire career, and Kove is the complete opposite,” says the actress. “I’m at a point in my life where everything is funny to me. I’ve always found most of life absurd, so I was ready for NTSF, and I love the way it happened. In my experience when it only takes one or two phone calls and there’s no nonsense or mess, then it’s terrific.

While fans spent seven seasons traveling through the Delta Quadrant with Mulgrew on Star Trek: Voyager, there was no guarantee that they would jump onboard with NTSF with the same zeal. Apparently they have, however, and the actress could not be happier.

“I initially thought, ‘Oh, I don’t think the Janeway fans are going to go for this,’ but they have,” she enthuses. “If anything, I think there might have been a brief pause where they decided, ‘Oh, I see, the actress Kate Mulgrew has decided to change her dance step. Let’s go with her.’

“The reason that the Star Trek fans base is so extraordinary is because it’s so loyal. They love the actors as well as the characters that they’ve grown to truly adore, so they will follow you to the next project if they think that it’s good, and obviously they think that this is good.”

The full interview is here.