Click here for Part I of our coverage of Scott Bakula in Las Vegas.
Given that Las Vegas was Scott Bakula's first Star Trek convention appearance ever, we thought we would give a little bit more coverage than usual to mark the occasion and share with fans around the world. Here is Part II of our Scott Bakula report.
Throughout his talk, Scott kept the mood relatively light, a good idea after some of the actor talks earlier in the weekend had turned a bit political (more on that later). One woman told Scott that she had had a set visit and got to see 15 minutes of filming on Enterprise while she was there. Those 15 minutes being the best of her whole life, she said.
"Glad I was in a good mood that day," Scott joked.
More fun and games ensued as the next person to pose a query looked familiar to Bakula. "What am I supposed to do if I know somebody at the mike?"
It was Michael DeMeritt, 1st assistant director on Enterprise. "I have a question. I hear you're a really big fan of the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' and I was wondering if you ever, maybe, dressed up as one of the characters? Which one would you do?"
"I would never do anything like that and it worries me that so many people are laughing right now. You know, that was supposed to be a private Halloween thing," replied Dr. Frank-N-Furter, uh Bakula. For the record, every year on or around Halloween, the folks working on Enterprise would have a costume contest where the actors and production crew could enter. The costumes were frequently hilarious and almost always outrageous. Scott, needless to say, did enter one year dressed as a character from "Rocky Horror."
The inevitable "What else are you working on?" question was next. "There's the video game, coming out this fall, with the other four captains," he reiterated, then joked, "I don't play the other four captains. They asked me and I said no. Because Shatner, he needs the work. [Rim shot please! See related Shatner Roast story!] And Patrick [Stewart] wouldn't let me do it.
"I'm shooting two episodes of 'The New Adventures of Old Christine,'" he added. "A lot of fun. I haven't done anything like that in a while. Other than that, I'm looking at the possibility of doing some more theater in New York."
Of course, the question we all want to know, and that is why Enterprise had to end? Especially when it was getting interesting! "We don't have enough time to talk about why we're off the air, but ultimately I would just say, briefly, is that we were on the wrong network [UPN]."
Fans of Quantum Leap wanted to know if that show was coming back, either on TV or a movie? "There is no talk about Quantum Leap coming back that involves me," said Scott. "I have heard many stories, rumors, internet [gossip] about [it] ... I've heard a lot things, but no one has ever spoken to me about it. Don [Bellisario, original producer] spoke to me several months ago and they, the SciFi Channel, were talking to him about doing a new series, but that was the extent of the conversation. We all see what the movies do with the TV shows," he noted sarcastically. "My guess is that if they did it wouldn't be with me."
But would he be interested? "Oh, always."
Scott also expressed a bit of confusion over the two-part "In a Mirror, Darkly" saga, given that it didn't have any effect on the regular-universe characters, and that it didn't, he felt, have proper ending. "If anyone can explain that one to me I'll sit down...
"'In a Mirror, Darkly' was intended to be a standalone. It was a blast to do. If we had gone on, we probably would have popped into that world again, because it seemed to be successful and people were intrigued by it, certainly. I kind of got to the end of that [script] too and went, 'Uh, O.K.' I made a call and said, 'What's supposed to happen?' They said, 'Nothing.' 'Oh, O.K.' But I hope it was fun to watch because it was really fun to do. You get to the end of a two-parter and you..." and he made a gesture like wanting it to wrap up.
Page 2: Phone calls and Emmy nominations