List of Star Trek: Voyager characters
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This is a list of minor fictional characters from the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. Characters here are members of the crew, or passengers, on the starship Voyager as it makes its way home through unknown space during the course of the series. The minor characters generally appear at most in several episodes (out of 172), sometimes in episodes that largely concern them. Of these characters, the only ones who joined the ship during its travels are the four alien children (Azan, Icheb, Mezoti, and Rebi) taken from a Borg cube.
Characters are ordered alphabetically by family name, and only characters who played a significant recurring role in any of the series are listed.
For the main cast, see Star Trek: Voyager#Cast. Due to the connected nature of the Star Trek science fiction universe, these characters have appeared in the other Star Trek media.
Ayala
Ayala | |
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Lieutenant junior grade |
Ayala was played by Tarik Ergin. He appears in the background of almost every episode, more than any other "named extra". He speaks, briefly, in a handful of episodes. He is the only character other than the regulars to appear in both the pilot episode and the finale.
Ayala, the father of two, is originally a
Ayala serves in main engineering and at ops when Ensign Kim is not on duty, but later transfers to security. He is often seen on the bridge as a relief tactical officer when Tuvok leaves the bridge. Ayala later served as a relief helmsman when Tom Paris wasn't on duty.
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Azan, Rebi and Mezoti
Azan and Rebi | |
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Borg ) |
Mezoti | |
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Borg ) |
Azan and Rebi are brothers, natives of the Wysanti race. Mezoti is a young Norcadian girl, born about 2368. All three were abducted and assimilated by the
In 2376, the Borg cube they were residing on as drones was disabled when all the adult drones on the vessel were killed by a pathogen that was carried on board by another abductee, Icheb. The Cube and the five surviving neonatal drones were abandoned by the Collective without their knowledge.
The young drones encountered the
They lived on Voyager for several months under the mentorship of Seven of Nine, a fellow ex-drone, where they began to receive an education. Then Voyager located the Wysanti and the brothers returned home in early 2377. As Captain Janeway had been unable to contact the Norcadians, Mezoti joined them and was eagerly welcomed by the Wysanti.
Joseph Carey
Joseph Carey | |
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Lieutenant |
Joseph "Joe" Carey is a fictional recurring character in Star Trek: Voyager. He is a human Starfleet officer.
An engineer aboard USS Voyager, Carey serves under
However, after some deliberation, Torres was made chief engineer in the "Parallax" episode by Captain Janeway, as Torres showed better abilities than Carey when the ship was trapped in a quantum singularity and took the lead in engineering. Carey congratulated her and promised to never betray her command, and thereafter serves as her assistant, despite there having initially been some friction between the two. He is disappointed with Janeway's decision but recognizes Torres' superior abilities.
In 2377, Carey was assigned to join the away team to recover the remains of the Friendship One probe from the planet Uxal IV in the "Friendship One" episode. The away team discovered that the inhabitants of the planet had been irradiated by antimatter radiation caused by the probe. Unfortunately, Carey was murdered by a man named Verin, who had taken the away team hostage. At the time of his death, he had been working on a model of Voyager, which Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay finished.
Chell
Chell | |
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Bolian | |
Affiliation | First Maquis, then Starfleet |
Rank | Crewman |
Chell is a fictional recurring character in
Chell, along with many other Voyager crewmen, originally served under
Chell and the other Maquis were forced to merge with Voyager's crew on the long 70-year journey home to the
In 2377,
Chell's role as a character is expanded upon greatly when he appeared in the Activision game Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force as a member of the Hazard Team. He is also featured in the tie-in comic book released by
Icheb
Icheb | |
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Star Trek character | |
First appearance | "Collective" (VOY) |
Last appearance | "Stardust City Rag" (Picard) |
Portrayed by | VOY: Manu Intiraymi, Mark Bennington Borg, Starfleet |
Rank | Lieutenant |
"Your ocular implant. It's malfunctioning again."
Icheb, "Imperfection"
Icheb was played by
After Icheb was assimilated he was placed inside a Borg maturation chamber where he was to grow into an adult drone until an apparently space-borne virus infected the vessel he was aboard and consequently killed all the adult drones, disconnecting the vessel from the Borg. This caused the chamber to open and Icheb to emerge as an underdeveloped Borg drone.
He was not the only
As with Seven of Nine, the crew of Voyager restored the Borg children to their pre-Borg selves by removing most of their Borg implants and counseling them as they regained their normal personalities.
In the episode "Child's Play", Icheb was facing a reunion with his parents. He met them, and at first was reluctant to return to the mainly agricultural planet, compared to the advanced technology and science of Voyager. Eventually, he warmed to his parents and elected to stay with them.
It then emerged that the people of his homeworld had genetically engineered Icheb to be a weapon against the Borg using the genetic knowledge they had applied to agriculture. When assimilated, he introduced a biological virus into the collective; it was this virus that first disabled the Borg ship from which he and the other adolescent drones were recovered. His parents were planning to use him in this way again, to protect their homeworld, which frequently came under attack by the Borg. He was sedated by his parents, placed on a ship engineered to emit a false warp signature to attract the Borg, and sent toward a transwarp conduit frequently used by the Borg. Voyager retrieved Icheb before his ship was tractored into the Borg ship.
Icheb had many talents intellectually and fit in well with the crew of Voyager. His main position on Voyager was assisting Seven of Nine in the astrometrics laboratory. He sought to be admitted to the Starfleet Academy through training courses provided by the senior officers aboard Voyager. Partial communication was established with Starfleet Command on Earth, through which Icheb sat for and passed the entrance exam to the Academy. He gained the field rank of cadet from Captain Janeway.[2]
The episode
Icheb's final appearance in Voyager's last episode features him beating Tuvok at
Icheb makes a cameo appearance in the Star Trek: Picard episode "Stardust City Rag".[1] Now a Lieutenant serving in Starfleet, Icheb is mortally wounded when his Borg components are harvested, while he is awake and not anesthetized. In agony and dying, Icheb begs Seven to kill him and end his suffering. Seven refers to him as “my child”, then reluctantly complies.
This scene, noted for its body horror element, also includes a tie into the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Imperfection", which involves Icheb donating the Borg portion of his eye to Seven of Nine; that history reveals the uselessness of the removal of his eye in "Stardust City Rag".[1]
Intiraymi portrayed Icheb in the non-canon 2015 fan film Star Trek: Renegades.[3]
Michael Jonas
Michael Jonas | |
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Star Trek character | |
Portrayed by | Raphael Sbarge |
In-universe information | |
Species | Human |
Affiliation | Starfleet |
Posting | USS Voyager |
Position | Engineer |
Michael Jonas was played by
He began betraying secrets of Voyager to his former ally,
Lon Suder
Lon Suder | |
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USS Voyager engineer | |
Rank | Crewman |
Lon Suder, played by Brad Dourif, is an engineer on Voyager.
Suder is a
While on Voyager, however, Suder cannot find an adequate release for his violent tendencies, and by the episode "
When the
Seska
Seska | |
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Ensign ) |
Seska first appears in the episode "
Once aboard Voyager, Seska slowly melded into a normal life with the mixed Starfleet–Maquis crew, a process not without difficulty. After several clashes with the ship's rigid command structure and increasing frustration with the command of Captain
The Kazon were able to capture Voyager with Seska's help after she joined their crew. Seska claimed to have impregnated herself with her former lover Chakotay's DNA and used the child as bait, knowing Chakotay would never abandon the child to the Kazon and its mother. The Kazon attacked the USS Voyager when it came for the child and were able to board and take over the vessel. During the short period when the Voyager crew was marooned on a planet, the Doctor learned that the child was half Cardassian and half Kazon and told Seska the child was Culluh's. The Doctor explained that despite the baby's somewhat human appearance the child would probably develop Kazon features later on.
Seska was killed when the Voyager crew retook the ship from the Kazon.[4] Culluh escaped, taking their son with him. Almost a year after her death, in the episode "Worst Case Scenario", a holodeck program she had altered to kill Tuvok, was discovered in the ship's memory and nearly accomplished its purpose before it was deactivated. Later, in "Shattered," when Voyager was caught in a temporal rift that placed sections of the ship in different times, engineering was in the time period where the Kazon had captured the ship. Seska was featured in this episode as well and her control of the ship was stopped by a collaboration of crew members from various times.
Reception
In 2015, SyFy rated Seska as among the top 21 most interesting supporting characters of Star Trek.[5]
In 2018, CBR ranked Seska the 18th best recurring character of Star Trek shows.[6] They elaborate, "Martha Hackett was fantastic in the part, showcasing Seska’s transformation from supposedly loyal fighter to a scheming vixen."[6]
In 2020, The Digital Fix said that Seska was the standout character from season one, and that Hackett was a better actor than the main cast of the show in season one.[7]
Vorik
Vorik | |
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Ensign |
Ensign Vorik, played by Alexander Enberg, is a Vulcan male who serves aboard Voyager as an engineer.
Ensign Vorik was introduced in full as a minor character in the episode "
In the episode "
Star Trek: Voyager producer and writer Jeri Taylor, Enberg's mother, has suggested that Vorik is the twin brother of Taurik, another Vulcan Starfleet engineer played by Enberg in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks".[8]
In the novel Homecoming Part 1 by Christie Golden, when Voyager gets back to Earth, Vorik was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade for his seven years of service on USS Voyager.
Samantha Wildman
Samantha Wildman | |
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Ensign |
Ensign Samantha Wildman, played by
.The character was named after a real person, a little girl who died in an accident. The real Samantha's organs were transplanted into the wife of Voyager episode writer Jimmy Diggs, who gratefully named a character after the girl.[9]
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