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Ethan Peck as Lieutenant Spock at the science station on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. In the lead up to the premiere of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, Peck enthused about the immersiveness of the sets, recalling his fi day of filming on STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: "The very first time I walked out onto the bridge, I was waiting in a turbolift. The cameras had just started rolling before action. And I was with Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anson Mount, and they were all in character. And I was in the back right corner. And everybody kind of got ready. And I was like, 'I’m here.' And I couldn’t see anything that wasn’t the set and that felt very real to me. And that was pretty startling and I’ll never forget it."

Ethan Peck as Lieutenant Spock at the science station on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. In the lead up to the premiere of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, Peck enthused about the immersiveness of the sets, recalling his fi day of filming on STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: "The very first time I walked out onto the bridge, I was waiting in a turbolift. The cameras had just started rolling before action. And I was with Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anson Mount, and they were all in character. And I was in the back right corner. And everybody kind of got ready. And I was like, 'I’m here.' And I couldn’t see anything that wasn’t the set and that felt very real to me. And that was pretty startling and I’ll never forget it."

Ethan Peck as Lieutenant Spock in "Strange New Worlds", STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022)

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Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike gazing out of the window of his ready room aboard the Starship Enterprise. In the run up to the series premiere of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, Mount discussed the differences between Pike in the new series and how the character was portrayed in STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: "...For me, as the guy playing Pike, I wanted to really delve further in. We got to see him lead a crew that was not his own on DISCOVERY. And now we get to see him lead his own crew. And I really wanted to flesh out that tremendous sense of empathy I think he has, which is it goes hand in hand with humility. I think that’s partly what makes him such a good leader and Captain."

Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike gazing out of the window of his ready room aboard the Starship Enterprise. In the run up to the series premiere of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, Mount discussed the differences between Pike in the new series and how the character was portrayed in STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: "...For me, as the guy playing Pike, I wanted to really delve further in. We got to see him lead a crew that was not his own on DISCOVERY. And now we get to see him lead his own crew. And I really wanted to flesh out that tremendous sense of empathy I think he has, which is it goes hand in hand with humility. I think that’s partly what makes him such a good leader and Captain."

Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike in "Strange New Worlds", STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022)

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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 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)

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Maquis Raider as it appeared in "Caretaker", featuring a revamped cockpit reflecting the use of DS9's runabout set for the interior of the Val Jean. The Raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being repurposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot!"

Maquis Raider as it appeared in "Caretaker", featuring a revamped cockpit reflecting the use of DS9's runabout set for the interior of the Val Jean. The Raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being repurposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot!"

Maquis Raider, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Maquis Raider as it appeared in "Caretaker", featuring a revamped cockpit reflecting the use of DS9's runabout set for the interior of the Val Jean. The Raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being repurposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot!"

Maquis Raider as it appeared in "Caretaker", featuring a revamped cockpit reflecting the use of DS9's runabout set for the interior of the Val Jean. The Raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being repurposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot!"

Maquis Raider, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Publicity photo of the Kazon Raider studio model designed by Dan Curry and fabricated at WonderWorks Inc. According to "Caretaker" Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, Dan Curry's original design was quickly modified (famously with cardboard) after the producers decided to make alterations following competition and delivery of the model from an outside vendor: "About six weeks into motion control photography, the producers decided to change the Kazon Fighter design. I mocked up possible design modifications for producers to look at."

Publicity photo of the Kazon Raider studio model designed by Dan Curry and fabricated at WonderWorks Inc. According to "Caretaker" Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, Dan Curry's original design was quickly modified (famously with cardboard) after the producers decided to make alterations following competition and delivery of the model from an outside vendor: "About six weeks into motion control photography, the producers decided to change the Kazon Fighter design. I mocked up possible design modifications for producers to look at."

Kazon Raider, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Three quarters underside view of the USS Voyager in a ubiquitous promotional still from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. According to Scenic Artist Doug Drexler (who was contractually only allowed to work on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE at the time), the producers of VOYAGER made a number of last minute design changes to the ship, including requesting that the warp nacelles be capable of pivoting up and down. This modification was added to the newly completed 5-foot miniature at the eleventh hour: "Tony Meininger's crew did a spectacular job under enormous time constraints. The variable pitch wing of the Voyager was a decision made by the producers, after the ship was mostly finished, and required a massive retrofit of the brand new model. Naturally, there was no additional time given to Tony to get it done."

Three quarters underside view of the USS Voyager in a ubiquitous promotional still from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. According to Scenic Artist Doug Drexler (who was contractually only allowed to work on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE at the time), the producers of VOYAGER made a number of last minute design changes to the ship, including requesting that the warp nacelles be capable of pivoting up and down. This modification was added to the newly completed 5-foot miniature at the eleventh hour: "Tony Meininger's crew did a spectacular job under enormous time constraints. The variable pitch wing of the Voyager was a decision made by the producers, after the ship was mostly finished, and required a massive retrofit of the brand new model. Naturally, there was no additional time given to Tony to get it done."

USS Voyager, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Kate Mulgrew stands at her mark on the ISS Voyager bridge set during filming of "Caretaker". According to Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart told her at the beginning of VOYAGER that being the lead of a STAR TREK series would be difficult but ultimately rewarding: "The first week we were doing VOYAGER, Patrick said to me, 'If you get through this show' – I guess that was debatable, my getting through it – 'you will be very proud.' I said, 'Are you?' He said, 'Enormously.'"

Kate Mulgrew stands at her mark on the ISS Voyager bridge set during filming of "Caretaker". According to Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart told her at the beginning of VOYAGER that being the lead of a STAR TREK series would be difficult but ultimately rewarding: "The first week we were doing VOYAGER, Patrick said to me, 'If you get through this show' – I guess that was debatable, my getting through it – 'you will be very proud.' I said, 'Are you?' He said, 'Enormously.'"

Kate Mulgrew on the set of "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Publicity photo of the Kazon Raider studio model designed by Dan Curry and fabricated at WonderWorks Inc. According to "Caretaker" Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, Dan Curry's original design was quickly modified (famously with cardboard) after the producers decided to make alterations following competition and delivery of the model from an outside vendor: "About six weeks into motion control photography, the producers decided to change the Kazon Fighter design. I mocked up possible design modifications for producers to look at."

Publicity photo of the Kazon Raider studio model designed by Dan Curry and fabricated at WonderWorks Inc. According to "Caretaker" Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, Dan Curry's original design was quickly modified (famously with cardboard) after the producers decided to make alterations following competition and delivery of the model from an outside vendor: "About six weeks into motion control photography, the producers decided to change the Kazon Fighter design. I mocked up possible design modifications for producers to look at."

Kazon Raider, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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The raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being reposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein, based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot it!"

The raider first appeared in the Season 7 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode "Preemptive Strike" before being reposed as the Val Jean for STAR TREK: VOYAGER's pilot episode. The 2-foot long filming model was constructed by Gregory Jein, based on designs by Jim Martin. According to VFX Producer David Stipes, the relatively large filming miniature (compared to the 5-foot USS Voyager) made it difficult to depict as a small vessel: "The Maquis ship is one-fifth the size of Voyager, and that is nearly two feet long. So I needed to be in North Hollywood to shoot it!"

Maquis Raider, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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USS Voyager bridge set, Production Design by Richard James. While Herman Zimmerman is primarily associated with the creation of sets during the late-TOS movie and TNG era, Richard James had taken on the day-to-day design work for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. According to Zimmerman, it was a natural extension of those duties for James to become Production Designer on VOYAGER while Zimmerman focused his time on DEEP SPACE NINE: "It was simple arithmetic that Richard James would go on to do VOYAGER because he had to adapt all of the sets that I had done for TNG to a new show. Also, the studio wanted to do it on a shoestring, not knowing if – excuse the pun – the thing would fly. They probably chopped his budget down to make a whole new look with maybe a two-episode budget. And he did a hell of a job, I think. But I was in no position to want to do that show. I was still deeply involved in DS9..."

USS Voyager bridge set, Production Design by Richard James. While Herman Zimmerman is primarily associated with the creation of sets during the late-TOS movie and TNG era, Richard James had taken on the day-to-day design work for STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. According to Zimmerman, it was a natural extension of those duties for James to become Production Designer on VOYAGER while Zimmerman focused his time on DEEP SPACE NINE: "It was simple arithmetic that Richard James would go on to do VOYAGER because he had to adapt all of the sets that I had done for TNG to a new show. Also, the studio wanted to do it on a shoestring, not knowing if – excuse the pun – the thing would fly. They probably chopped his budget down to make a whole new look with maybe a two-episode budget. And he did a hell of a job, I think. But I was in no position to want to do that show. I was still deeply involved in DS9..."

USS Voyager bridge, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Ubiquitous publicity photo three quarters top view of the Starship Voyager using the studio model designed by Rick Sternbach under supervision of STAR TREK: VOYAGER production designer Richard James. According to VFX Coordinator Dan Curry, "The Voyager hero model was a five-foot miniature. And one of the things we did with that, is inside the larger windows, we'd gone around the sets and took slides of various sets and then bent them into little arcs like miniature cycloramas inside the windows. So when tighter shots of the ship fly by, you'd get a sense of perspective shift as the ship move by, which would help the verisimilitude, as rather having white-lit windows."

Ubiquitous publicity photo three quarters top view of the Starship Voyager using the studio model designed by Rick Sternbach under supervision of STAR TREK: VOYAGER production designer Richard James. According to VFX Coordinator Dan Curry, "The Voyager hero model was a five-foot miniature. And one of the things we did with that, is inside the larger windows, we'd gone around the sets and took slides of various sets and then bent them into little arcs like miniature cycloramas inside the windows. So when tighter shots of the ship fly by, you'd get a sense of perspective shift as the ship move by, which would help the verisimilitude, as rather having white-lit windows."

USS Voyager, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Ethan Phillips as Neelix, Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok on the barren surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix, Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok on the barren surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix, Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, Robert Beltran as Chakotay, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Ethan Phillips as Neelix carried away by an angry group of Kazon on the barren surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix carried away by an angry group of Kazon on the barren surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)
"Eye of the Needle"

VFX Coordinator Dan Curry

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Louis Ortiz as a guard in a Vidiian medical experimentation camp. The idea for the Vidiians came from efforts by VOYAGER co-creators Jeri Taylor and Michael Piller's attempts to conjure up unique villains for the crew to face. At one point cannibals we're considered before the writers landed on a race bent on harvesting organs. According to Taylor: "The idea of a race that does really unspeakably horrible things but does them simply because they're trying to survive, we thought was a very complex kind of agenda... If you start with a premise like that, it's impossible to make them completely evil because their motivation is completely understandable. If anything, it's more scary if you realize that underneath that grotesque, deformed body there's someone who was once young, strong and beautiful."

Louis Ortiz as a guard in a Vidiian medical experimentation camp. The idea for the Vidiians came from efforts by VOYAGER co-creators Jeri Taylor and Michael Piller's attempts to conjure up unique villains for the crew to face. At one point cannibals we're considered before the writers landed on a race bent on harvesting organs. According to Taylor: "The idea of a race that does really unspeakably horrible things but does them simply because they're trying to survive, we thought was a very complex kind of agenda... If you start with a premise like that, it's impossible to make them completely evil because their motivation is completely understandable. If anything, it's more scary if you realize that underneath that grotesque, deformed body there's someone who was once young, strong and beautiful."

Louis Ortiz as Vidiian Guard in "Faces", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Louis Ortiz as a guard in a Vidiian medical experimentation camp. The idea for the Vidiians came from efforts by VOYAGER co-creators Jeri Taylor and Michael Piller's attempts to conjure up unique villains for the crew to face. At one point cannibals we're considered before the writers landed on a race bent on harvesting organs. According to Taylor: "The idea of a race that does really unspeakably horrible things but does them simply because they're trying to survive, we thought was a very complex kind of agenda... If you start with a premise like that, it's impossible to make them completely evil because their motivation is completely understandable. If anything, it's more scary if you realize that underneath that grotesque, deformed body there's someone who was once young, strong and beautiful."

Louis Ortiz as a guard in a Vidiian medical experimentation camp. The idea for the Vidiians came from efforts by VOYAGER co-creators Jeri Taylor and Michael Piller's attempts to conjure up unique villains for the crew to face. At one point cannibals we're considered before the writers landed on a race bent on harvesting organs. According to Taylor: "The idea of a race that does really unspeakably horrible things but does them simply because they're trying to survive, we thought was a very complex kind of agenda... If you start with a premise like that, it's impossible to make them completely evil because their motivation is completely understandable. If anything, it's more scary if you realize that underneath that grotesque, deformed body there's someone who was once young, strong and beautiful."

Louis Ortiz as Vidiian Guard in "Faces", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Jennifer Lien as Kes comforts Ethan Phillips as Neelix in sickbay after having his lungs harvested by the Vidiians. The story for "Phage" originally centered around Tom Paris, but Writer Skye Dent thought Neelix (and by extension Kes) was a more sympathetic character to focus on: "They were the only two on board that have any sort of defined relationship. I wanted to do a script that would affect one person and that would tear at the emotions of another so that you would see how it would affect her. I didn't want Janeway or Chakotay or any of the others to be injured because at that point nobody cared about them as much. We cared about Neelix and Kes immediately because we could see how much they cared about each other."

Jennifer Lien as Kes comforts Ethan Phillips as Neelix in sickbay after having his lungs harvested by the Vidiians. The story for "Phage" originally centered around Tom Paris, but Writer Skye Dent thought Neelix (and by extension Kes) was a more sympathetic character to focus on: "They were the only two on board that have any sort of defined relationship. I wanted to do a script that would affect one person and that would tear at the emotions of another so that you would see how it would affect her. I didn't want Janeway or Chakotay or any of the others to be injured because at that point nobody cared about them as much. We cared about Neelix and Kes immediately because we could see how much they cared about each other."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix and Jennifer Lien as Kes in "Phage", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway during the final moments of "Caretaker", pilot episode of STAR TREK: VOYAGER. Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore design a facial tattoo for Chakotay. In keeping with the writers' desire to avoid giving the character a specific tribal affiliation, the make was deliberately designed not to represent any particular tribal culture. In an interview with The Washington Times, Beltran joked that he was asked to wear Chakotay's facial tattoo for while performing Hamlet in Albuquerque, New Mexico following the end of VOYAGER's first season.

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway during the final moments of "Caretaker", pilot episode of STAR TREK: VOYAGER. Makeup Supervisor Michael Westmore design a facial tattoo for Chakotay. In keeping with the writers' desire to avoid giving the character a specific tribal affiliation, the make was deliberately designed not to represent any particular tribal culture. In an interview with The Washington Times, Beltran joked that he was asked to wear Chakotay's facial tattoo for while performing Hamlet in Albuquerque, New Mexico following the end of VOYAGER's first season.

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill escaping onto the surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The arid Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill escaping onto the surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The arid Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok stand on the bridge in an awkward promo pic for STAR TREK: VOYAGER Season 1. In this publicity photo, Mulgrew wears her hair down in a style that she wore for 4 days of filming on the series' pilot episode before studio executives insisted on a change. Mulgrew's ever changing hairstyle on the series has been much discussed so let's just let her have the last word on it: "I mean it's so ridiculous, 75,000 lightyears from home and she’s got a hairdresser in the ready room?!"

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok stand on the bridge in an awkward promo pic for STAR TREK: VOYAGER Season 1. In this publicity photo, Mulgrew wears her hair down in a style that she wore for 4 days of filming on the series' pilot episode before studio executives insisted on a change. Mulgrew's ever changing hairstyle on the series has been much discussed so let's just let her have the last word on it: "I mean it's so ridiculous, 75,000 lightyears from home and she’s got a hairdresser in the ready room?!"

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in the transporter room aboard the USS Voyager. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in the transporter room aboard the USS Voyager. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway, and Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok in "Eye of the Needle", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway welcome a guest from the Alpha Quadrant. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway welcome a guest from the Alpha Quadrant. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Eye of the Needle", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway welcome a guest from the Alpha Quadrant. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway welcome a guest from the Alpha Quadrant. "Eye of the Needle" was STAR TREK: VOYAGER co-creator Jeri Taylor's first solo writing credit on the series. Fellow co-creator Michael Piller praised the episode for telling a story that capitalized on VOYAGER's specific "lost in space" premise: "It turned out to be a great show with a very original premise that you could not do on any other show, where you are on the other side of the universe communicating with somebody through a wormhole..."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim, Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok, and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Eye of the Needle", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill escaping onto the surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The arid Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill escaping onto the surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The arid Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres and Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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Robert Beltran as Chakotay and Roxanne Dawson as B'Elanna Torres held captive and subjected to scientific testing in the subterranean world of Ocampa. According to Production Designer Richard James, the illusory barn itself was filmed location but the interior chamber was an elaborate set: "The interior of the barn was always a set, but we did the exterior on location. I added a false front to that barn, and then the interior was shot on Stage 16 at Paramount Pictures. Of course, that set had to be connected to the chamber where the bodies were suspended, with needles piercing their bodies and sucking fluid out of them."

Robert Beltran as Chakotay and Roxanne Dawson as B'Elanna Torres held captive and subjected to scientific testing in the subterranean world of Ocampa. According to Production Designer Richard James, the illusory barn itself was filmed location but the interior chamber was an elaborate set: "The interior of the barn was always a set, but we did the exterior on location. I added a false front to that barn, and then the interior was shot on Stage 16 at Paramount Pictures. Of course, that set had to be connected to the chamber where the bodies were suspended, with needles piercing their bodies and sucking fluid out of them."

Robert Beltran as Chakotay and Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

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John de Lancie as Q and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway facing life or death consequences for the Q Continuum. Mulgrew and de Lance were close friends prior to the latter's appearance on STAR TREK: VOYAGER. According to Mulgrew, she worked to get de Lancie to appear on the new series: "I have campaigned very hard to get him on VOYAGER... I even threw a dinner party with the Bermans and the de Lancies and we talked all night long. I said, 'You've got to find a way.'"

John de Lancie as Q and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway facing life or death consequences for the Q Continuum. Mulgrew and de Lance were close friends prior to the latter's appearance on STAR TREK: VOYAGER. According to Mulgrew, she worked to get de Lancie to appear on the new series: "I have campaigned very hard to get him on VOYAGER... I even threw a dinner party with the Bermans and the de Lancies and we talked all night long. I said, 'You've got to find a way.'"

John de Lancie as Q and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Death Wish", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1996)

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Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker crossing over into the future and to the Delta Quadrant aboard the USS Voyager commanded by Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway. According to Frakes, the cameo appearance (shepherded by Q) was initially intended to go to LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge, "But LeVar has his head shaved these days. He doesn't look much like Geordi – so I lucked out."

Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker crossing over into the future and to the Delta Quadrant aboard the USS Voyager commanded by Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway. According to Frakes, the cameo appearance (shepherded by Q) was initially intended to go to LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge, "But LeVar has his head shaved these days. He doesn't look much like Geordi – so I lucked out."

Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker and Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Death Wish", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1996)

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