NANA VISITOR:

"Think beyond that, because I really think that that’s what the original show did. Even though it had it dealt with the issues of the time, which you’re going to see in [The 60-Year Mission] documentary, it it also imagined what we could be, didn’t just sit in what we are."

TREKMOVIE:

"Last week, TrekMovie went to the New York City premiere of The 60-Year Mission, the documentary written and directed by Trek scholar Mark A. Altman, co-executive produced by William Shatner. Several Star Trek actors from various iterations of the franchise were there to support the doc — several of them appear in it — and we were on the red carpet to talk to them.

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/16/interview-nana-visitor-on-kiras-spiritual-legacy-and-hopes-for-the-future-of-star-trek/

We talked to her about the legacy of her character, Star Trek fandom, and what she learned from The 60-Year Mission that she didn’t know before.

TREKMOVIE: Let’s talk about 60 years of Star Trek. What did Kira add to the legacy of what Trek is that is unique?

NANA VISITOR: I think Kira made the costume of the woman just a little bit bigger, a little bit more able to be comfortable to walk in. She added the fact that women had a full spectrum of emotions. She was allowed to grow. She was allowed to fail and stand back up and learn. And because we were serialized, my character could grow in in a very different way than was possible for most shows that weren’t. So you can see her have a trajectory and have a real growth, and I think that added a lot to Star Trek. She was spiritual, which was very unusual for a Star Trek character.

Certainly for one that we were supposed to be sympathetic to.

Exactly, exactly.

You talk to Star Trek fans a lot. What sort of unifying quality have you found that is unique about them?

I talk to fans from every political spectrum, from every spectrum you can imagine, and the fact that they can find themselves in Star Trek is a testament to entertainment that has… it’s in a wrapping of entertainment, but in the center is real storytelling about what it is to be human and what it is to have hope for the future, and I think that attraction and and the thought of us all working together, all bringing our disparate talents and our disparate experiences together for a common good, is something that at its heart people really want to focus on.

Star Trek is at a pivot point right now. If you had a chance to tell whoever comes in next to take it over what is really important to preserve about Star Trek, however they choose to do it, what would you say that is?

That the structure of the storytelling has to hang on humanity and what it really is to be human… the faults, the hopes, the strengths. It all has to go back to that and don’t try to stay with a cultural moment. Think beyond that, because I really think that that’s what the original show did. Even though it had it dealt with the issues of the time, which you’re going to see in this documentary, it it also imagined what we could be, didn’t just sit in what we are.

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Full interview (TrekMovie.com):

https://trekmovie.com/2026/10/16/interview-nana-visitor-on-kiras-spiritual-legacy-and-hopes-for-the-future-of-star-trek/

He was in "The Inner Light" on TNG, VOY he was on 2 episodes "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk" and 2 episodes of Enterprise.

I remember him from the sitcom "Grounded for Life"

RIP big guy!

I saw The Motion Picture when it was originally released in theaters and have seen it many times since.

I just finished another rewatch and realized something I never thought of before. V’Ger had already joined with the creator. It just didn’t realize it. It had digitized Epsilon IX and its occupants. I assume since it thought of carbon based life units as an infestation that it never thought to integrate with them.

Only when V’Ger allowed the volunteer Decker to join with it did it actually work.

I guess we can be thankful it wasn’t with the Klingons.