Robert G. Tapert

Rob Tapert: (On why and how he picked Xena's weapon) I had a book of ancient weapons and I saw this weird discus called the chakram and I said let's give her this because it can return and we'll never have another character use it. John Schulian [series writer] said he hated it and said we should cut around it. I told him 'that weapon is the coolest thing I'd ever seen' - it's her signature piece.

Rob Tapert: (On how he'd like Xena to be remembered) I'd like Xena: Warrior Princess to be remembered as a show that entertained people during a portion of the last decade of this millennium, and that the people who watched it took whatever they wanted from it and used it in a positive and useful way in their lives.

Rob Tapert: (On Cleopatra 2525) I was a huge fan of science fiction. In my warped little mind, I saw a chance to spin sci-fi differently than it had been done before, which was to take it in an irreverent direction. And hopefully, in making it irreverent, but supporting it production-wise, it wouldn't just be junk.