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.
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.
Ayala joins Voyager's crew as a security officer, serving under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway with the provisional rank of lieutenant junior grade.
In "Twisted", Ayala is left in command of the bridge while the ship is affected by a distortion ring being and the senior staff is confined to the holodecks.
Chell, along with many other Voyager crewmen, originally served under Chakotay with the Maquis, until their ship was dragged to the Delta Quadrant by an entity known as the Caretaker.
Chell ended up as a special group assigned to be trained Starfleet protocols by Tuvok, the ship's tactical officer.
After Voyager's resident Talaxian, Neelix left the ship in 2378, Chell asked to take his place in the mess hall.
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 met them, and at first was reluctant to return to the mainly agricultural planet, compared to the advanced technology and science of Voyager.
Partial communication was established with Starfleet Command on Earth, through which Icheb sat for and passed the entrance exam to the Academy.
[2] The episode "Shattered" featured an alternate timeline set in 2394 in which an adult Icheb (who had attained a field commission in Starfleet of Lieutenant Commander) helped Janeway and Chakotay restore Voyager to the correct space and time after it was hit by a "chronokinetic surge" that altered the ship.
Icheb's final appearance in Voyager's last episode features him beating Tuvok at Kal-toh the very first time he plays it.
Icheb makes a cameo appearance in the Star Trek: Picard episode "Stardust City Rag".
While on Voyager, however, Suder cannot find an adequate release for his violent tendencies, and by the episode "Meld" he kills fellow crewman Frank Darwin in a murderous fury.
Over time, he finds that he has a natural talent for plant biology, and requests to help Voyager to both gain trust and become a part of the crew again.
When the Kazon and Cardassian spy Seska takes over Voyager in "Basics" and strands the crew on a desolate planet, only Suder and the ship's doctor are left on board.
Struggling with his newfound inner peace and conscience, Suder is forced to revisit his violent ways to rescue his crewmates.
During her time with the Maquis, Seska had a love affair with her commander, former Starfleet officer Chakotay and befriended the half-Klingon, half-human B'Elanna Torres.
Seska's former relationship with Chakotay would later prove key to her plan to capture Voyager in the double-episode story "Basics".
She was caught while attempting to deliver replicator technology to the enemy and upon her apprehension, her true Cardassian identity was discovered by the Doctor.
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.
[6] They elaborate, "Martha Hackett was fantastic in the part, showcasing Seska’s transformation from supposedly loyal fighter to a scheming vixen.
[7] Ensign Vorik, played by Alexander Enberg, is a Vulcan male who serves aboard Voyager as an engineer.
In the episode "Blood Fever", Vorik underwent his first pon farr on stardate 50537 while Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
Approximately 75,000 light years from his arranged mate, Vorik declared kun-ut so'lik with his superior officer, Lt. Torres.
Vorik was forced to search for alternative ways to resolve his pon farr, but he found no relief from meditation or a holographic mate.
Eventually, having exhausted all of his options, Vorik made the challenge of combat in the ritual kun-ut kal-if-fee, for the right to mate with B'Elanna.
Ensign Samantha Wildman, played by actress Nancy Hower, joined Voyager as a xenobiologist, not knowing she was pregnant by her Ktarian husband Greskrendtregk.
The character was named after a real person, a seven year-old girl who died in an accident and whose parents donated her organs.
A kidney transplant from her saved the life of Voyager writer Jimmy Diggs's wife Linette, and he gratefully named a character after the girl.