I am home and eating clementines to get enough energy to shower before eating a proper meal, but have some droids!

Neither of them would play a superhero bc they have their Trek characters

Kate talking about how they don't have a choice, being women, it was hard enough for her but harder for Sonequa, being a black woman

"We did it!"

Seriously, these two are just so much in a good way

Sonequa: there's so much pressure but you have to let it go bc you can't create in that space, you can't honor what came before or who you're representing if you don't set it aside

Kate's favorite memory is giddy late nights laughing w/her castmates

"Those guys"💙💜

Sonequa saying all the Trek casts end up with a "show family" but her fave memory is her first time in the captain's chair, which she never did till her character did... & she was pregnant so her daughter was w/her

These women are both fascinating talking to each other, and I cannot liveblog it in a way to give it justice

Kate learned discipline playing Janeway, from the pace of work and from the character

Sonequa says she got to live the life of a woman of honor and sacrifice, of a leader

"Would your captains work well together?"

Sonequa: yes

Kate: I'm not sure, it's a very territorial thing

Sonequa: I think Burnham would defer to your experience?

Kate: defer to me? Let's come back to this later

I am - I am - uh.

Lol but they're both admirals

They're fangirling a little about Angela Bassett bc Sonequa said she's one of her inspirations

"There are always going to be men who want men. But there are women who want women."

Sonequa noting her own pressures as first black woman lead, also saying she was standing on Kate's & Avery Brooks' shoulders 💙

Lol Kate has started asking Sonequa questions while thd moderator chills

Kate talking about all these male producers on set just. Watching. Wanting her to "prove it" and her thinking "I'll prove it"

Hang on there were *death threats?*

The pressure was a thrill for her

She almost didn't get it bc of the scheduling

But they couldn't find anyone else they liked 😹

The sign language translator just switched and Sonequa Martin-Green paused to say "hello beautiful" to the new one

She was finishing up Walking Dead, so focused on that character it was hard to switch to Michael for the audition

Rick Berman called a few days later: Welcome aboard, Captain

Oh no the audition process

The Voyager situation is a tad infamous

But when she actually did audition, she'd just fallen in love, she thought she blew it & even admitted it

After her second audition (after Genevieve Bujold) she winked on the way out, lol

Kate Mulgrew's mother was the one who said she could be a great actress and she went right into the schooling

Sonequa Martin-Green thought she was going to be a psychologist until she did a play on a whim in 10th grade, that's so cool