The interview mentioned household at size, as a result of not solely are Jack and the La Forge girls introduced, however the crew of the Enterprise is its personal discovered household. When requested about what it felt like being inducted into that household, Speleers shared how rapidly he felt at house:
“Yeah, Jonathan Frakes took me underneath his wing in a short time. Very, in a short time. We’ve the identical U.S. agent who’s fantastic […] As a result of he texted me saying, ‘I knew you had been coming onto set,’ and all the things. […] I used to be within the manufacturing workplace and my household hadn’t arrived but, and I used to be making an attempt to do a great deal of issues to do with actually boring stuff about getting arrange in America, which was actually irritating me, however I wanted to make use of an workplace, and it was a manufacturing workplace. The one workplace they might give me was Frakes’ director’s suite, and I principally sat down, and took a selfie of myself saying, ‘That is my place now, mate. Mainly, I am working the present. You are now not the director.'”
Whereas Speleers was engaged on getting arrange within the States and having a little bit of enjoyable within the bosses’ workplace, somebody from the accounts division got here in searching for Frakes, and Speleers had a bit extra enjoyable, telling the poor worker that Frakes had been fired and he was now in cost. The employee purchased it and Speleers needed to inform them that it was solely a joke. In spite of everything, who would hearth Jonathan Frakes?