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Closing ceremony: http://downloads.scifinews.de/cat_1503.html

Kate Mulgrew: I am delighted to be here in Germany, and I’m going to tell you something.  (Looking to her left ) Thank you – is that wine?  I’m going to tell you something which most of you will think is nonsense, but which is very truthful.  I’m really incapable of lying – I’m a Roman Catholic, and I tell the truth.  The last time I was in Germany I said this, and I say it again:  I am really struck by the graciousness of the German people.  It surprises me, because it seems to be so completely genuine. And right underneath it is a natural intelligence which really sort of stuns me – because it seems to me the Germans speak English and understand English better than most Americans.  (In response to applause)  I mean it!  I mean it!  You’re a very curious nation – very complicated and complex.  Now I know that there are many countries represented here, but I’m addressing the Germans because this is my host country.  It is a complicated country – you are a complex people.  But let it be said here and now, by this woman who is as American as apple pie, that I do not believe that they come any more gracious or any more intelligent than the German people. 

Since I saw you last I have had an interesting odyssey.  I’m afraid the world will call it sad – much of it has been sad.  My father died.  And shortly after my father died, my deeply loved and much missed mother died of Alzheimer’s disease.  This has cost me a great deal, but as my husband says, “Snap out of it, greet the day.”  We all must go to oblivion, and I think it is how we rise to the bone that marks the man.  So he’s right.  Today is the day and this is the minute.  And I’m going to take it.  I’ve had a wonderful year.  I had a series which was cancelled – about the Irish Westies.  I don’t know if any of you are familiar with the West Side Irish in New York.  Very tough.  (In response to someone off-stage)   The Black Donnellys.  Only outdone by the Italians.  Otherwise the Irish are tough, as you know.  Beautiful. Exciting.  Attractive people.  Why are you laughing!?  And I played the mother.  This was most devastating of all – only yesterday I played the girl.  I said, “The mother, you see me as the mother? But these children are twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty five…” They said, “Yah?”  I played Mrs. Donnelly.  It did all right.  It was a Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco project.  But it failed because it lacked heart, I think, in the end.  And it lacked a thing that all Irish know makes the world go round, which is humor.  Even as an Irishman takes a bullet he can laugh.  It’s a different kind of courage.  At any rate, it was aired and it was cancelled.  And then I did a play that made me happier than I have been in many, many, many months.  And it was called “Our Leading Lady”, written by Charles Busch, who is a drag queen.  And when I say that, I mean… this man is a drag queen par excellence.  He inhabits a woman as you have never seen a woman played before.  Far more beautifully than any woman could play herself. He is so intrinsically a woman.  So this has been history. But in this case he wrote the story of a real woman, her name was Laura Keene, she was a great actress, she was on stage the night Abraham Lincoln was shot – and it shows what happened to her and to her life.  And I loved it – I did it for six months, and then it closed.  And that was just two weeks ago.  And now I’m here.  And I’m delighted to be here.  And I want to talk to you about all kinds of things. But as usual I could yammer on… in a sort of redundant and merciless fashion. I’d rather hear what you guys are interested in.  So who’s got a question for me?  Does anybody have a question for me?  Where are you all standing with your microphones?  You’re not. (In response to the many camera flashes from the audience)  This is the camera flashing nation of the world.  Who has a microphone and who has a question?   (In response to someone in the audience) There?  To my… this is my left.

From the Audience:  To your right.

Kate Mulgrew:  (Holding up her right hand) This is my right.  Just ask the question, darling.

Q 1:  Good evening Miss Mulgrew.

Kate Mulgrew:  Good evening.

Q 1:  Thank you very much for your return to FedCon, and you’ve done a wonderful job in the character of Kathryn Janeway…

Kate Mulgrew:  Stand up so I can see you.

Q 1:  I’m standing!

Kate Mulgrew:  Ohhh!  (waving)  Ohhh!  You are!  Oh yes, I like you! Yes, what’s your question?

Q 1:  I think you’ve brought a lot of commitment to your character and it shows… and … a couple of years ago John de Lancie came to FedCon and he shared his memories of working on Voyager and he’s a close friend of yours, I understand…

Kate Mulgrew:  Yah…

Q 1:  I’m interested – what are your memories of working with John de Lancie. 

Kate Mulgrew:  My memories of working with John de Lancie.  (smiles)  You know very well what they are!  They are very dangerous memories.  I was either in the bathtub with him, or in the bed with him, or in some kind of absurd situation with him… He is a consummate actor.  But you know, when you act with one of your great friends, something else takes over. So you spend the whole time trying not to laugh.  Do you understand?  But I would say that the best creative time I ever really had with him was in “Death Wish”, which I loved.  Does anybody remember that episode? (Film edited here) And I love him.   Thank you.  Is there a question on the right side?  You, you.  Yes darling, I see you.  (In response to someone in the audience)  She has a political question.  Doesn’t somebody have a microphone, because otherwise it’s going to dement everybody.  No?  Here darling, you take it from me. (Kate hands the questioner the microphone)

Q 2:  (this question was sometimes unintelligible) In 2001, you asked a young German lady who came to FedCon… why their parents wouldn’t talk about their past…. (unintelligible) … do you think young people are learning from what’s going on now in the US government, and will they learn enough to go out and vote to change what’s happening?

Kate Mulgrew:  Did you hear this question?

From the Audience:  No.

Kate Mulgrew:  Okay, this is very, very difficult.  Does everybody want to get into it, because I do.

From the Audience:  Yes.

Kate Mulgrew:  If you guys don’t want to, and you want to talk about laughs and how we’re all going to make costumes and all the rest of that nonsense, we can. Otherwise, this lady has asked an incredible question.  I’m going to address it, okay?  She said the last time I was at FedCon, and she is correct, I addressed the question of what happened in the war, here in Germany.  And that I had tried over a number of days, to penetrate what seemed to me a wall about what happened in the war – we all know what we’re talking about – Nazi Germany. I couldn’t get any young person to commit to me that his father, or his grandfather, or his great grandfather had been involved in the SS.  I couldn’t get anybody to engage in that conversation with me at all.  So – tit for tat – she is asking me, in my own country, with my own young people representing what is the worst administration in the history of the United States, whether or not I believe my young people will ask the right questions.  If they don’t – they are dead.  And yes, they will.  They will stop volunteering for this army, which is patently absurd.  They will stop supporting this government, which is a government of lies. And in my country, if this is the home of the free and the brave, this bullshit will stop when this president is out.