Post by Dimitris on Aug 26, 2004 9:18:22 GMT -5
Trivia for
"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)
When auditioning for the part of the holographic doctor, Robert Picardo was asked to say the line "Somebody forgot to turn off my program". He did so, then ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a light bulb" and got the part.
Geneviève Bujold was originally cast to play Captain Janeway, but a few days into filming the first episode, she abruptly quit.
At one point, several male actors read for the role of Janeway in the event Paramount had cold feet over casting a female lead. Among the actors who read for the part: Nigel Havers and Gary Graham
Hudson Leick (Callisto from "Xena: Warrior Princess") and Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova from "Babylon 5") both read for the role of Seven of Nine.
Many well-known actresses were considered for the role of Janeway including: Erin Gray , Nicola Bryant Joanna Cassidy Linda Hamilton, Carolyn McCormick, Lindsay Wagner and Patty Duke.
Tim Russ was originally considered for the part of Geordi La Forge in _"Star Trek: the Next Generation" (1987)_ .
The character of Tom Paris was a last-minute creation. Originally, Nicholas Locarno, (also played by 'McNeill Robert Duncan',) a Starfleet Academy cadet who had been expelled in the episode "The First Duty" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), was to have been the person that Captain Janeway released from prison to help track down the Maquis ship. However, using Locarno in "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) would mean the producers would have to pay royalties to Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar (the writers of "The First Duty") every time Locarno appeared in an episode. Rather than do that, the producers created the character of Tom Paris, who shares a similar back story as Nick Locarno (both had been cashiered out of Starfleet having caused the death of another officer).
The Ferengi from Star Trek: Next Generation's episode "The Price" were in "False Profits".
In the series finale, "Endgame", the main starship classes from all three _"Star Trek" (1996)_ spinoffs appear in the final shot of the episode. A Galaxy-class starship (the Enterprise-D from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)), a Defiant-class starship (the Defiant from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)), and of course an Intrepid-class starship (the Voyager from this series).
The episode "Counterpoint" features an alien race called the Devore, who routinely board and search passing ships for telepaths. The lead Devore investigator is named Kashyyk, after Chewbacca's home planet in Star Wars (1977)
Each of the three live-action Star Trek series after the original "Star Trek" (1966) has had a cameo appearance by a character from its predecessor series in its premiere episode: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" had Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Scotty, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" had Captain Picard, and "Star Trek: Voyager" had Quark. Next Generation also had Spock. Voyager has had Riker and Deanna Troi.
The Doctor's name was originally going to be "Dr. Zimmerman", but this was dropped. Several early episodes, however, identify the character as Zimmerman in the closed captions. It was later established that Zimmerman was the name of The Doctor's programmer, and the character appeared in episodes of Voyager and Deep Space Nine. The real last name of actress Jeri Ryan also happens to be Zimmerman.
Just before Voyager began, Tim Russ appeared as a human crewmember on the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He also appeared as a member of a terrorist gang stealing explosives from the Enterprise-D in episode: #6.18 of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' (1987) (qv), "Starship Mine" in which he suffered a nasty demise.
Then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan appears in the episode "Investigations." He plays a crewmember in the sciences division. Because he's not a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he was not allowed any lines.
In the episode "Inside Man", the holographic doctor wishes to play a round of golf with the Barclay hologram. One course he suggested was the "back nine on Geidi Prime." This is another reference to Dune (1984).
In the episode "Q Two", Q and his son Q2, are played by a real father-and-son team, 'John De Lancie' and 'Keegan De Lancie' .
The episode "The Void" contains many references to "Babylon 5" (1994). Robin Sachs , who played a Minbari councillor in the B5 TV movie "In the Beginning," stars in "Void" as an alien named Valen. In B5, Valen was a holy figure among the Minbari. Also, "The Void" features a 'raider' spaceship first used in the B5 episode "Signs and Portents." And 'Vejar, Mike' , who directed several B5 episodes, also directed "The Void."
Robert Picardo, who plays the holographic doctor, also played a holographic doctor in _Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (qv)_.
Jeri Ryan turned down the role of Seven of Nine four times; she only accepted the part after repeated lobbying by executive producer Jeri Taylor.
The number 47 pops up many times on computer screens, serial numbers, dates and so on. This tradition was started by writer/co-producer Joe Menosky and was soon picked up by the rest of the production team. Menosky said that he choose that particular number because when he was a graduate student at Pomona College, the professor of mathematics, Donald Bentley proved as a joke that all numbers are equal to 47.
The "voice" in the theme song is a synthesizer saying "Voyager" over and over again.
The character of Ensign Samantha Wildman was named after a real person, a little girl who died tragically in an accident. The girl's organs were donated to save the life of the wife of episode writer Jimmy Diggs. The real Samantha loved animals, so Ensign Wildman was cast as the head of Voyager's xenobiology department.
imdb.com/title/tt0112178/trivia
"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)
When auditioning for the part of the holographic doctor, Robert Picardo was asked to say the line "Somebody forgot to turn off my program". He did so, then ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a light bulb" and got the part.
Geneviève Bujold was originally cast to play Captain Janeway, but a few days into filming the first episode, she abruptly quit.
At one point, several male actors read for the role of Janeway in the event Paramount had cold feet over casting a female lead. Among the actors who read for the part: Nigel Havers and Gary Graham
Hudson Leick (Callisto from "Xena: Warrior Princess") and Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova from "Babylon 5") both read for the role of Seven of Nine.
Many well-known actresses were considered for the role of Janeway including: Erin Gray , Nicola Bryant Joanna Cassidy Linda Hamilton, Carolyn McCormick, Lindsay Wagner and Patty Duke.
Tim Russ was originally considered for the part of Geordi La Forge in _"Star Trek: the Next Generation" (1987)_ .
The character of Tom Paris was a last-minute creation. Originally, Nicholas Locarno, (also played by 'McNeill Robert Duncan',) a Starfleet Academy cadet who had been expelled in the episode "The First Duty" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), was to have been the person that Captain Janeway released from prison to help track down the Maquis ship. However, using Locarno in "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) would mean the producers would have to pay royalties to Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar (the writers of "The First Duty") every time Locarno appeared in an episode. Rather than do that, the producers created the character of Tom Paris, who shares a similar back story as Nick Locarno (both had been cashiered out of Starfleet having caused the death of another officer).
The Ferengi from Star Trek: Next Generation's episode "The Price" were in "False Profits".
In the series finale, "Endgame", the main starship classes from all three _"Star Trek" (1996)_ spinoffs appear in the final shot of the episode. A Galaxy-class starship (the Enterprise-D from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)), a Defiant-class starship (the Defiant from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)), and of course an Intrepid-class starship (the Voyager from this series).
The episode "Counterpoint" features an alien race called the Devore, who routinely board and search passing ships for telepaths. The lead Devore investigator is named Kashyyk, after Chewbacca's home planet in Star Wars (1977)
Each of the three live-action Star Trek series after the original "Star Trek" (1966) has had a cameo appearance by a character from its predecessor series in its premiere episode: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" had Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Scotty, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" had Captain Picard, and "Star Trek: Voyager" had Quark. Next Generation also had Spock. Voyager has had Riker and Deanna Troi.
The Doctor's name was originally going to be "Dr. Zimmerman", but this was dropped. Several early episodes, however, identify the character as Zimmerman in the closed captions. It was later established that Zimmerman was the name of The Doctor's programmer, and the character appeared in episodes of Voyager and Deep Space Nine. The real last name of actress Jeri Ryan also happens to be Zimmerman.
Just before Voyager began, Tim Russ appeared as a human crewmember on the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He also appeared as a member of a terrorist gang stealing explosives from the Enterprise-D in episode: #6.18 of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' (1987) (qv), "Starship Mine" in which he suffered a nasty demise.
Then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Jordan appears in the episode "Investigations." He plays a crewmember in the sciences division. Because he's not a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he was not allowed any lines.
In the episode "Inside Man", the holographic doctor wishes to play a round of golf with the Barclay hologram. One course he suggested was the "back nine on Geidi Prime." This is another reference to Dune (1984).
In the episode "Q Two", Q and his son Q2, are played by a real father-and-son team, 'John De Lancie' and 'Keegan De Lancie' .
The episode "The Void" contains many references to "Babylon 5" (1994). Robin Sachs , who played a Minbari councillor in the B5 TV movie "In the Beginning," stars in "Void" as an alien named Valen. In B5, Valen was a holy figure among the Minbari. Also, "The Void" features a 'raider' spaceship first used in the B5 episode "Signs and Portents." And 'Vejar, Mike' , who directed several B5 episodes, also directed "The Void."
Robert Picardo, who plays the holographic doctor, also played a holographic doctor in _Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (qv)_.
Jeri Ryan turned down the role of Seven of Nine four times; she only accepted the part after repeated lobbying by executive producer Jeri Taylor.
The number 47 pops up many times on computer screens, serial numbers, dates and so on. This tradition was started by writer/co-producer Joe Menosky and was soon picked up by the rest of the production team. Menosky said that he choose that particular number because when he was a graduate student at Pomona College, the professor of mathematics, Donald Bentley proved as a joke that all numbers are equal to 47.
The "voice" in the theme song is a synthesizer saying "Voyager" over and over again.
The character of Ensign Samantha Wildman was named after a real person, a little girl who died tragically in an accident. The girl's organs were donated to save the life of the wife of episode writer Jimmy Diggs. The real Samantha loved animals, so Ensign Wildman was cast as the head of Voyager's xenobiology department.
imdb.com/title/tt0112178/trivia