By GustavoLeao / 04:04, 18 January 2012 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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Journalist Ian Spelling posted a new interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actress Marina Sirtis and here is an excerpt.

‘‘I’m a total Luddite, not good with any technology at all,’’ says Sirtis ‘‘I was not prepared to be impressed when I went to CBS to see what they were doing with the Blu-ray, but it was amazing.

‘‘It was amazing because one of the things I’d always felt about our show was how I felt about the original Star Trek when I watched that 20 years later,’’ she continues, ‘‘and that’s how dated it looked. So I was feeling that about The Next Generation, that it looked dated because the technology had come so far since the 1990s, since we’d made the show. We were state of the art in the 1990s, but technology put us in this time capsule, really.

‘‘Now, with this Blu-ray technology, it looks like we shot it yesterday.’’

‘‘There’s a nice mix there in the sampler of action and character-driven stories,’’ Sirtis says, speaking by telephone from her Los Angeles home. ‘‘I think they made a really nice choice of episodes, though I still can’t watch the pilot because I was really amazed that they let me keep my job after that. I describe my performance in that as ‘ Sophie’s Choice meets Star Trek’. It was just way too emotional. It was awful, and I thought for sure that I was going to be fired. Aside from that, I can watch the other two.

‘‘I was a little worried that the highdefinition aspect would freak me out,’’ she admits, ‘‘but then I remembered, of course, that I’m 25 years older now, that I was 25 years younger then, and that it doesn’t matter. It’s fine. I’m okay with how I’ve aged — thank you, Mom, thank you, Dad. It’s genetic, because I don’t really do anything. I can’t take any credit for it.’’

The full interview can be found at The queen of conventions