Jeffrey Combs during the interview

NR: Jeff, how comes it that we can see you now in your third Star Trek series, as Andorian in "Enterprise"? Can't you get enough of it? How did you got the role?

JC: They just called and offered it to me. And I, honestly, at first I said "no". I said "no" because I thought I didn't want to particularly just go in and gueststar, just one thing and then out. But at that point I hadn't seen the script, I hadn't thought about it enough, I didn't had enough information and I guess my initial reaction also was I kind of done this Star Trek thing. So I thought, well, I don't need to do that. That sort of may be me repeating myself. And so I said "no". And they came back and said "Please, and here is why: A, B, C, D..." and then I read the script and found out that it is an Andorian and that made me change my mind because I remember the Andorians from the first series and they were sort of unexplored. They where like the Vorta, they were coming to me and said to me "Jeffrey, can you flesh this out for us". I took it as a challenge.

NR: And you are playing the bad guy again?

JC: Well, you could maybe say that. See I can't give away too much. You may think I'm a bad guy, but I'm justified.
 
 
 

JC: His name is "Shra'an, you could call him a terrorist. We believe that the Vulcans have been spying on us, so we have something to do about this. And I leave it to you to find out whether or not we are right or not.

NR: How about the Make-up: Was it more demanding and time consuming than the Ferengi one?

JC: Yes it was more demanding. I'm used to the constrictions of the make-up, but this one had hair, wig, make-up, prosthetics, but there were also mechanics involved to move the antenna. So I had to be hocked up to a radio operated control and I had that going on as well. I could hear them moving - zoooom - zooooooom (laughs). So that affected your concentration, but not that much.

NR: Is Enterprise still in the tradition of Star Trek?

JC: I think it really has the flavor of the original series. I always noticed to DS9 that there was always an A-story and a B-story. The main story and then this little subplot. They never had that in the original series, it was always one story all way through, and that's what they have here. It's one plot and no cutting over to another story.

NR: How about your new movie "Parallax", is it finished now?

JC: In fact on Tuesday in London I'm doing looping, lipsynching, it's very near completion. I have no idea when it's going to be released. I know that the same company put out "The Musqueteer", it opened in the States 3 or 4 weeks ago and it was Number one for a week. So they did well with that. I will know more on Tuesday when I talked to the director.m ich den Regisseur gefragt habe.

NR: What can you tell us about "Contagion". You played a highjacker ...

JC: I haven't heard anything about that. That was such a low budget little quicky movie that might go straight to TV. I don't know I've asked a couple of times about that and I never seem to get an answer. I worked on it only for 3 or 4 days, a lot of work on 3 or 4 days and that's it.

NR: Was it a difficult decision for you to come to Germany in these days, taking an airplane...

JC: When it happened, the first thing that went through my mind was "I should probably cancel" [the Galileo 7 Convention in Goslar/Germany, 9/28-30/01]. But as time went on, I guess I have a little bit of a stubborn streak in me, and I thought, "I not gonna allow these preaks to affect my life. And I also think that it's safer now to fly than it was 3 weeks ago. Lot safer, the security was certainly more intense. Logically I thought it was pretty safe. We should just all be careful, keep our eyes open. God bless America.