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TREK OVER? IT'S NEWS TO ME!Interview with Trek and Dare star StewartT.A.M.P.O.N. exclusive Following the recent success of Star Trek: Nematode, tenth in the popular film series, fans were surprised by the announcement from Paravale Studios that no more movies were to be made. TAMPON caught up with Patrick Stewart, star of the Star Trek films and TV series as he took a five minute break from his work on the forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future. TAMPON: So, did Paravale's recent announcement come as a shock or a relief? Were you beginning to worry you'd get typecast? STEWART: Eh? What announcement? Typecast? In Dare I play the Mekon. It's a very challenging role, and certainly very different from my work on Trek or I Claudius... TAMPON: Paravale's announcement that there would be no more Star Trek films. STEWART: It's news to me! They'd be mad to turn their backs on a franchise like that! As a matter of fact I'm already in talks with them regarding a return to TV for Next Gen... TAMPON: Really? Sounds intruiguing. Tell us more... STEWART: Unfortunately I can't - sworn to secrecy! (LAUGHS). Anyway, I want to talk about Dare. Do you realise that for me to be transformed into the Mekon requires four hours in make-up and millions of dollars in CGI post-production? Of course I'd much rather have been playing Dan Dare himself, but I understand I was considered too old for the role! (LAUGHS) TAMPON: What about Digby? STEWART: (IGNORING QUESTION) I used to love the Eagle as a boy... so to be asked to portray one of the great villains from its pages is a signal honour.
TAMPON: Did you know that an anagram of your name is "Star Trek cap wit?" STEWART: Really? How appropriate. You see, I am wearing a baseball cap at the moment, and I'm quite a wit... TAMPON: About this Next Gen return to television... STEWART: (SHORTLY) Can't breathe a word. More than my job's worth. TAMPON: Ten million dollars for the last film I believe? STEWART: I've already said too much - as it is I may have to kill you! (LAUGHS - WHISPERS TO P.A.) I won't really have to, will I? TAMPON: So when can we expect Dan Dare to hit our screens? STEWART: (LAUGHS) You don't expect me to tell you that, do you? I can't understand the attitude of some fans trying to find out the details of films before we've even finished making them! You know, on X-Men 2 we had our own personalized copies of the script, and if we lost it, we had to ad lib. No photocopying allowed. And if anyone's script turned up on the internet they'd be fired on the spot. And flogged. Why d'you think Hugh Jackman disappears halfway through the film? TAMPON: You've been hotly tipped to be cast as the lead in the forthcoming Picasso biopic Guernica... STEWART: (ANGRILY) Who told you that! Right, that's it, this interview is over! Unfortunately that was all we had time for. Next month we hope to speak to Brent Spiner on the set of Another Nice Mess the Stan Laurel biopic in which he plays the lead.  
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