Craig: Welcome Back! Throughout my next guest's 25-year acting career, she has had memorable roles on such show as Ryan's Hope, Mrs. Columbo and Murphy Brown. This season, she enters her final year as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Ladies and Gentlemen - This is Kate Mulgrew!

Kate: Thank you! [to audience]

Craig: Kate, before we get started and talk about Star Trek: Voyager - the final season

Kate: We're talking about Star Trek? How unusual.

Craig: This is not your first time to San Petulina. [applause & cheers] Some of the biggest celebrities vacation here and I believe you are one of them.

Kate: I used to.

Craig: You used to.

Kate: Well, am I driving or jetting? [laughs]

Craig: I like saying 'jetting', but I'm wrong.

Kate: I prefer 'jetting', yes.

Craig: Right. Although we're running behind, we may helicopter you back to the convention -- The Democratic Convention you're going to down in LA.

Kate: I'm very excited about it because I have never been to a democratic convention before and I with to be educated. My husband is a politician and, uh...

Craig: That's right. You've been married very recently.

Kate: I've been married for a very, very long time. [Laughter in audience] Thirteen months -- or 14 months. [applause] I have a story. Tonight is sort of an interesting story. The Kennedy's played a curious and serendipitous role in both my life and my husband's life. It's how we met. My husband, Tim Hagan, who is a politician...

Craig: ...in Ohio, I believe.

Kate: Yes. He was the executive of Cuyahoga county for 25 years. But he has worked with the Kennedy's both politically and personally for all of those years. My mother's best friend is Jean Kennedy Smith. Seven years ago, I was in Ireland with my two young sons from my first marriage, and my mother called and said, "My dear friend, Tim Hagan, is coming over to visit the then ambassador, Jean Kennedy Smith, in Dublin. Why don't you have one drink in Dingle."

Craig: One drink in Dingle. [audience laughter] That's what Mom said, right.

Kate: I said, "Oh, Mom. Oy Vey." She's sending me some big [mouths word] democratic [mouths word] ... Like that -- I fell in love with that guy.

Craig: Seven years ago, you had a drink with him.

Kate: Just like that.

Craig: Maybe it was the water in Dingle.

Kate: Drink lasted a long time.

Craig: Might have been the fact you were in Dingle.

Kate: Can I ask something of the audience?

Craig: Go right ahead.

Kate: May I make an observation of the audience? They look young, very attractive, ambitions, very intelligent. How many of you will actually get out and vote when the day comes?

[applause & cheers]

Craig: I think they're gonna vote for the MTV awards or something.

Kate: I don't think so. They look like their Gore supporters to me.

Craig: I heard a couple of BOOs, I don't know. Can we talk Star Trek?

Kate: Yes, of course we can.

Craig: That's what's important. It's the final season.

Kate: Captain Janeway's a democrat, you know that, don't you? [laughter] Am I pushing this a little too much? Alright, forget it.

Craig: This is the final season. How do you want your character to say good-bye.

Kate: I can tell you exactly.

Craig: Ok.

Kate: Now, I may stand alone in this and I'm sure it's going to be controversial: I think it's going to be poignant...

Craig: Is she in a voting booth?

Kate: But she's in a voting booth with somebody else... I think it should be stunning, unpredictable, heartbreaking. The audience should gasp. It should be the last frame of the last episode -- an extreme close-up of a beloved character and OUT!

Craig: Are we...

Kate: I can't. I'm not allowed to say.

Craig: Are we fading to black, or is she...

Kate: I think we'll see the ship going up in flames, deck by deck.

Craig: Wow! You're gonna die.

Kate: [responds not really hearing Craig's comment] I was told not to speak of this. As you can see, I'm the biggest blabbermouth in Hollywood.

Craig: She's gonna die and she just said it on the Late Late Show!

Kate: I did not say... !! You are going to get me in so much trouble.

Craig: What? I didn't say that! Fade to black. You said 'fade to black'.

Kate: Fade to black. I didn't say Janeway was gonna die.

Craig: I misinterpreted what you said. [audience laughter] You are, by the way, you are the first female captain. [applause] Are you kind of a role model of sorts?

Kate: And still standing. I've been told that I'm a role model and I believe I have been - to young women in particular. Although there is a young male demographic that find Janeway... [Males in audience yell 'Yeah!'] What can I say? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I think I have influenced young women particularly in the science fields which is a powerful and marvelous privilege, I think, for somebody in my position because an actress usually doesn't have that opportunity.

Craig: Yeah. I always wondered on those science fiction shows -- do you guys know anything about space ships?

Kate: Ask me.

Craig: What?

Kate: Ask me anything.

Craig: Ok. I can't even come up with a question. What's a photon rocket?

Kate: A photon torpedo?

Craig: Yeah.

Kate: You're dead. Next?

Craig: Ok.

Kate: Can you imagine how I felt the first season? I had never watch Star Trek. I was completely unfamiliar with science fiction. It was a genre that had escaped me altogether. I got this script. I am telling you, Craig, I said, "Why don't they just send me the script in Japanese."

Craig: It's complicated.

Kate: I don't know if any of you ever saw the first episode, probably not, you all look so young.. and I greet Mr. Kim and I greet Commander Tuvok and I say hello to my first officer. And I sat down in the chair [Kate sits down] and I said "Aw, the hell with it. ENGAGE!"

[applause]

Craig: There it is. You got the script and you say, "If Shatner can do it, I can do it."

Kate: Right.

Craig: I love Bill. Bill's a friend of mine.

Kate: I love Bill Shatner. Wonderful, wonderful man.

Craig: Guy guy. Good people. Loves himself.

Kate: [smiles and nods agreeingly] He does.

Craig: That's why we get along so well. I know you gotta run and you're either taking the Jitney back to LA or we're jetting you down...

Kate: He's fixated on how I'm gonna get to the convention floor.

Craig: Have fun, there.

Craig: Remember to vote November 7th!

Kate: I will.

Craig: Kate Mulgrew!