meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 117 - John De Lancie, Star Trek's "Q"

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

John de Lancie is an actor best known for his portrayal of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He's also appeared on Breaking Bad and The West Wing. In September, he filmed a video for the Openly Secular campaign. So what happens when two people who have never watched Star Trek get a chance to interview him on extremely short notice? We talk about the current golden age of television, what defines a great actor, and whether we need to use labels like "Humanist" at all. We spoke at the recent American Humanist Association conference in Chicago, where he was receiving the Humanist Arts Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

We're at the American Humanist Association Conference in Chicago and we're here with John Delancey.

0:06.0

Would you like to introduce yourself, sir?

0:09.0

Well, I am indeed John Delancey.

0:11.0

Good, one for one.

0:14.8

And you're an actor and you're here

0:16.9

to receive the Humanist Award for the Arts

0:19.4

Question Park.

0:20.4

Congratulations, by the way.

0:21.8

Thank you for coming.

0:24.0

So let's go through.

0:25.0

So you are known for Breaking Bad.

0:28.0

I know you from West Wing, because I literally just watch that episode two days ago.

0:32.0

It's fine.

0:33.6

What else might our listeners?

0:35.2

Well, probably Star Trek is the part.

0:37.7

I'm never seen Star Trek.

0:39.9

We're very big sci-fi nerds, as you could tell. He's never since Star Wars though, so...

0:44.0

Anyway, so people who know from which Star Trek?

0:48.0

Next generation, The Voyager in Deep Space Nine.

0:55.0

One of the reasons I know you, because like Jessica said,

1:00.0

so I normally don't do sci-fi stuff but I saw this amazing video you made for the

1:05.4

openly secular project where you came out and said you're openly secular and I

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Friendly Atheist Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Friendly Atheist Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.