Ethan Phillips as Neelix, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, Garrett Wang as Harry Kim, Jennifer Lien as Kes, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris, Tim Russ as Tuvok, Robert Picardo as The Doctor, and Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres stand in front of the helm console on the Voyager bridge set in a publicity photo for STAR TREK: VOYAGER Season One. Tim Russ described the first days of shooting "Caretaker" as stressful, particularly in light of the firing of original Janeway actress Geneviève Bujold: "Those first days were like, 'I've got to get this scene right, I've got to make it play. The anxiety factor that was built into it for all of us was the fact that 'You've got the part,' but we also knew that in the first week of shooting, they're either going to tweak that performance or they're going to replace it. If anything was going to happen, it was going to happen in that first week. You weren't guaranteed until you got on film, someone saw you in dailies and gave you a thumbs-up. That's when you know you're home, so the anxiety factor had to do with that."
Ethan Phillips as Neelix, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, Garrett Wang as Harry Kim, Jennifer Lien as Kes, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris, Tim Russ as Tuvok, Robert Picardo as The Doctor, and Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)
