{"id":670173,"date":"2026-10-30T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:50:13","slug":"kate-mulgrew-shares-patrick-stewarts-star-trek-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670173\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Mulgrew shares Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Galway Bay Murders<\/a> star Kate Mulgrew has paid tribute to the late Patrick Stewart<\/a> and the advice he gave her when she began playing Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Oliver Callan Show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 on Friday, Mulgrew recounted first meeting Stewart just after he finished playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and she began work on Star Trek: Voyager.<\/p>\n

“He came in, I think, in the second week I was shooting,” she told the host.<\/p>\n

Listen: Star Trek: Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew, who stars in RT\u00c9’s new thriller series The Galway Bay Murders, joins Oliver Callan on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n

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“I’d just gotten off The Bridge. I’d already lost 52 lbs I was so… I mean, it’s nerve-wracking. I was shot out of a cannon.<\/p>\n

“He came in and, you know, in that gorgeous baritone, helped himself to a coffee. I stepped off The Bridge and I came over and I said, ‘How the hell did you do this?’<\/p>\n

“He said (adopting Patrick Stewart’s voice): ‘Now, listen to me, and listen to me very clearly. If you invest yourself completely for seven years, as I did, you will be deeply rewarded. So just give it everything you’ve got’. And that’s exactly what I did.”<\/p>\n

“What he was saying was you’ve got to take a deep breath and dive,” Mulgrew explained.<\/p>\n

“This is an abyss and you’re not going to have a lot of control but just get yourself into the character and you will do it. And he was right.”<\/p>\n

“I’m very sorry to say goodbye to a great, great captain in Patrick Stewart,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“Jean-Luc Picard was beloved by millions, and millions will carry him.”<\/p>\n

“I know how beloved he was, and I know what his command was like,” she added.<\/p>\n

“And he was very kind to me.”<\/p>\n

Mulgrew stars opposite Love\/Hate’s John Connors and fellow Star Trek alumnus Colm Meaney in RT\u00c9 One’s new thriller series, The Galway Bay Murders<\/a>, which begins on Sunday, 8 November at 9:30pm.<\/p>\n

Watch: The trailer for The Galway Bay Murders<\/p>\n

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