Nana Visitor on Colonel Kira’s Star Trek: Lower Decks Appearance and the Status of Her Documentary

Nana Visitor attends Paramount+'s "Star Trek Day" celebration in 2022. Image: David Livingston/Getty Images.

OCTOBER 3, 2022 - Next year will be thirty years since Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began its seven-season run, and on last week’s episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, “Hear All, Trust Nothing,” we got to revisit the station and some of its inhabitants, including Col. Kira Nerys.

In a short interview with Nana Visitor, TrekMovie got her take on the colonel’s appearance and an update on her A Woman’s Trek project.

While she says that Kira still lives in her heart and has not been lost over the years, Visitor didn’t expect the call to return but that it was great that “that they drew her so beautifully—not just in terms of the lines, but also the dialogue. That she was so alive and vibrant 30 years later, it was thrilling. It was wonderful. And working with that team was the way collaboration should be: easy, fun, and everyone supporting each other.”

She also said that Kira’s appearance in a comedic version of Trek was just a matter of a difference in tone. It’s still “all Kira, just different facets.”

The question also arose about the status of her book and documentary project, A Woman’s Trek. Visitor is still expecting it all to happen, though there have been delays in talking with some of the current women involved with Trek due to COVID protocols in production situations. She has been able, though, to talk with other women, including an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. That was Samantha Cristoforetti, who holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut.

For more from Nana Visitor, you can read the entire interview at TrekMovie.