Happy Birthday Gates McFadden
“I think it’s very important that young people have role models. They seem to write us enormous amounts of letters, young people, and say, “I want to be a doctor like Beverly Crusher, and it’s great that you’re a mom as well,” and all of that. And … that makes me feel very good. And therefore, I feel responsible to keep pushing the role as much as I can in the direction that … really shows the potential of what women will be doing, men and women will be doing in space. And I often have felt, “Just write the character as a man, I’ll make it female.”
