While Brent Spiner answered questions at a panel at Creation Entertainment's Grand Slam convention in Burbank, California, James Marsters was giving autographs in the area behind the stage. Noting the line of people waiting for a signature, Spiner tells us that he's a Marsters fan himself. "I like Spike. I wanted him to play Shinzon in Nemesis!" Words: Abbie Bernstein

Were any of the actors emotional when Star Trek: The Next Generation filmed its last episode?

Michael Dorn was emotional. He was crying and kept spitting those fake teeth out…But the 'ending-ending' really was Nemesis. That was really emotional.

Have you saved any of your Star Trek: The Next Generation costumes?

I was told I couldn't take anything, so I wore my visor home off the set of Next Generation and I did that with my costume from the last movie [Nemesis]. That's all I've taken. Why? Because I could!

What happened with the CBS series Threshold? It premiered two years ago with great promise and then vanished halfway through the season…

Threshold was going to be a really great show. It was pretty good as it was. Everybody on the show was phenomenal. Les Moonves, who runs CBS, really doesn't like science fiction. I think he didn't know it was science fiction…He saw a trailer and said, 'I hate this!'

What are you doing now?

I just did this thing the other day for a guy named Harry Kloor, who wrote on Voyager, with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson [Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey].

You co-wrote Star Trek: Nemesis. Do you want to direct?

The most important thing you need to be a director is boundless energy. And I love sleep. I was not willing to give up sleep to tell people what to do!

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