Star Trek: Voyager

Trivia

• Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris) and Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres) are the only actors to appear in every episode of the series.
• Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, TNG stars LeVar Burton and Jonathan Frakes, and DS9 Recurring Star Andrew Robinson all have had a hand at directing episodes of the series. Dawson and McNeill also directed episodes of Enterprise. McNeill has since directed in several TV shows including Dawson's Creek, The O.C., Las Vegas, One Tree Hill, and Summerland.
• Several famous guest stars have included Sharon Lawrence, Andy Dick, John de Lancie, Michael McKean, Sarah Silverman, John Rhys-Davies, Virginia Madsen, The Rock, McKenzie Westmore of Passions, TNG stars Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton, and Dwight Schultz, and DS9 star Armin Shimerman.
• Robert Duncan McNeill played Starfleet cadet Nick Locarno in the ' episode "The First Duty," in which Locarno got into trouble for violating orders. Locarno was originally planned to return as part of the Voyager cast, but McNeill was not available, so a new character was created, Tom Paris, who had also got into trouble for violating orders. However, McNeill became available after all, and was cast as Tom Paris. It's been theorized by fans that Tom Paris and Nick Locarno are indeed the same person, with Nick Locarno being Paris' alias or nickname while at the Academy.
• Ethan Phillips appeared as a Ferengi in a ' episode and as a maitre d in the film '.
• Tim Russ played the character Devor in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Starship Mine," and also played Tuvok in a mirror universe on the ' episode "Through The Looking Glass." Also, he appeared as a human on the bridge of the Enterprise-B in the film ' and as a Klingon named T'kar in the ' episode "Invasive Procedures". In addition, he auditioned for the role of Geordi La Forge on , but did not receive it.
• King Abdullah II of Jordan, a well-known Star Trek fan, appeared as an extra in the episode "Investigations". Abdullah's role was not given any speaking lines because he is not a member of the Screen Actors' Guild.
• The Doctor utters several lines that recall Doctor McCoy's famous "I'm a Doctor, not a ..." quips. In "Phage", he says, "I'm a doctor, not a decorator." In "Gravity", he says, "I'm a doctor, not a battery," and in "Bliss", he says, "I'm a doctor, not a dragon slayer". Perhaps most famously, in ', when asked to halt the approach of the Borg in sickbay, he says, "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop". This would possibly emanate from the Doctor's programming, which, as the doctor mentions several times, includes procedures and personality from Dr. Leonard McCoy, among others. (By the same token, Tom Paris also follows this pattern with the line, "I'm a pilot, not a doctor.")
• Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway) was cast in the series after the original star, Canadian film actress Genevieve Bujold as Nicole Janeway. Bujold quit after one day of filming, citing exhaustion and incompatibility with television filming.
• This was the first program ever to air on the UPN network.