THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

We bring you another archive interview from deep inside the Star Trek Magazine archives, from Issue 43, published in 1998 - this time with the late René Auberjonois, conducted during the production of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s where he played the role of the elusive Changeling, Constable Odo.

IAN SPELLING

“Every time I think I know Odo, every time I dare to think, ‘Well, he would do…’, I start to wonder,” muses René Auberjonois, who has played Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s shapeshifting security officer for six years now. “I don’t want to know everything about Odo. What’s the point? It leaves nothing to the imagination. It leaves you unopen to the plot twists and character twists that the writers come up with. “When I got the script for ‘His Way’, for example, I resisted it the first time I read it. I thought, ‘Oh, this is silly.’ I thought that because I was so into the painful aspects of Odo, the tortured hidden love aspect of his relationship with Major Kira [Nana Visitor], I could feel myself sort of…

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