Chelsea FieldChelsea Field (current wife of Scott BakulaScott Bakula [as of July 2005]) auditioned for the role of Captain Janeway.
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 DiggsJimmy Diggs. The real Samantha loved animals, so Ensign Wildman was cast as the head of Voyager's xenobiology department.
In the opening credits of the first episode, the character name Tuvok is not identified with a rank, in order not to give away his identity as a Starfleet officer working undercover. In later seasons, rank designations were removed from the character names, except for Janeway.
The show's first season ended prematurely when UPN decided to air several season one episodes at the beginning of season two, instead.
[?] Geneviève Bujold was originally cast to play Captain Janeway, but a few days into filming the first episode, she abruptly quit.
Each of the three live-action [Star Trek] series after the original [Star Trek] has had a cameo appearance by a character from its predecessor series in its premiere episode. [Star Trek: Voyager] has Quark.
Before the premiere, it was announced that the male Native American character (Chakotay) would have a wolf as a "spirit guide" and would be seen frequently during the series, however, the wolf never appeared. (Though we did see Captain Janeway's and learned comedically that B'Elanna Torres tried to kill hers.)
In some early episodes, Neelix is seen training with Tuvok in ship's security. The writers' original intent was for Neelix to get a Starfleet commission and join Tuvok's security staff full-time, but this was eventually dropped (although in the alternate timeline of [{The Year of Hell}], Neelix does become a Starfleet security officer).
