Star Trek: Voyager
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Gary Graham had a challenging experience guest asterisk onStar Trek : Voyagerseason 2.Graham played Tanis , an Ocampanwhom the USS Voyager ’s crew run into in season 2 , episode 10 , " Cold Fire . " Tanis was part of a radical of Ocampa who had left their home planet with a distaff Nacene name Suspiria ( Lindsay Ridgeway ) , a penis of the metal money that the Caretaker ( Basil Langton ) was part of . Voyager ’s stamp of charactershad been searching for Suspiria as a mean value to get home since the Caretaker had died before he could send them back to the Alpha Quadrant in the pilot film .
Although Gary Graham ’s firstStar TrekTV showrole was onVoyager , he went on to play Ambassador Soval onStar Trek : Enterpriseand remained a popular franchise actor until his death on January 22nd , 2024 , at the age of 73 . Before his end , Graham spoke extensively about his involvement inStar Trekand discussed his experience working onVoyagerspecifically inCaptains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyagesby Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman . In the book , Graham described a tense , amazingly unpleasant working environmenton theVoyagerset . Read Graham ’s full quote below :
" Though I enjoyed most of the cast members on Voyager , the tincture on the set was tense , they ’re very tightly wound over there . That ’s not to say it was n’t a rewarding experience , but it was about as fun as taking a midterm examination when you really , really have to make a undecomposed grade . I wanted to deepen two word at Star Trek and it took thirty minutes to get hand approval on that back from the Ivory Tower . "
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Voyager Wasn’t The Only 90’s-Era Star Trek Show With A Tense Set
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Set Was Especially Serious
It is surprising that Graham characterizedVoyager ’s gear up as " tense , " given thatVoyageris not typically theStar Trekseries with a report for a more serious work surroundings . Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , which ran concurrently withVoyagerfor a clip , was best eff for having been a tense set . Actor Armin Shimmerman , who played Quark onDeep Space Nine , discussed the seriousness of the show ’s workings environs on an episode of The Shuttlepod . Shimmerman went so far as to say that theDS9actors " did n’t laugh"when discussing the modality of the set compared to shows likeStar Trek : The Next Generation .
Shimmerman went on to clarify that the shape ofDeep Space Ninesimply took their line of work more seriously , which is different from the " tightly wound " atmosphere that Graham name onVoyager . Graham ’s experience inculpate a work environs that was actually unpleasantrather than one that was just consecrated to produce the best performances potential . In most other accounts ofStar Trek : Voyager ’s cast and gang , everyone on solidification got along well and joked around passably often , so to listen a dissenting legal opinion froma respectedStar Trekguest mavin like Gary Grahamadds an interesting subtlety to the series ' lore .
Star Trek : Voyageris uncommitted to stream on Paramount+ .
germ : Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyagesby Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
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