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Whatever Happened To Martha Hackett, ‘Seska’ From Star Trek: Voyager?

By Nick Lee | December 9, 2022

Great science fiction shows are even better with able and well-written villains. In Star Trek Voyager, viewers got that villain in ‘Seska’, the nefarious Cardassian agent, played by Martha Hackett. Although she only appeared on 13 episodes, she made a lasting impact on many fans who regarded her as one of the most memorable villains of the show.

20 years has passed since the end of Voyager, what has Martha Hackett been up to ever since?

Born on February 21st, 1961, Hackett hails from Boston, Massachusetts.

Hackett got into acting during high school. While in college, she starred in several stage productions.

She graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in English, American Literature, and Languages.

After Harvard, Hackett went to Hollywood to further her career. She landed her first job in the police drama Hill Street Blues (1986) as Carole Greene.

Acting Career

Hackett’s introduction to the Star Trek universe came with Deep Space Nine in 1992. She unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Jadzia Dax. Getting there just took a bit longer! She was not done with Trek despite this or alien costumes and makeup.

Between the "Trek" years, Hackett appeared in several movies or T.V. roles. She played a detective in Leprechaun 2 and The Marshall Chronicles (1990).

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Hackett auditioned for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She portrayed an alien species called the Terrellian in the series’ final episode, "All Good Things." Her part was cut in the editing and was not in the finale.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Her gig in TNG led to a two-episode appearance on Deep Space Nine as the Romulan subcommander T’Rul (1994).

Like many scenes in Trek history about cloaking devices and the Federation, Hackett’s T’rul was to protect the device against seizure. Dominion forces caught the episodes’ characters all before being rescued.

Star Trek: Voyager

Hackett’s portrayal as T’Rul was a lead up to her most arguably best role: Seska on Star Trek Voyager.

Seska was among the rebels – the Maquis, but in reality, it was revaled that she was a Cardassian agent who infiltrated the group to spy on them.

To aid her deception, Seska was altered to look like a Bajoran – a people subjected by the Cardassians.

As Seska, Hackett masterfully played the role of a double agent. Seska helped mask her duplicity using Commander Chakotay as her lover.

Though she loved him, Seska did not hesitate to seek others to help her. As Hackett’s role matured, she betrayed Voyager to the Kazons and as the main villain, Hackett usually stayed one step ahead.

Seska’s ultimate goal was to capture the Voyager for the technology.

Hackett showed Seska’s deceitfulness but was also conflicted too. Besides her betrayal, she stole Chakotay’s DNA to become pregnant and took up with the head Kazon. Her stalker-ish goal was to get Chakotay back. 

Hackett depicted Seska for thirteen episodes over two seasons. Subsequently, she appeared twice more in later seasons, still vicious. Her last swipe she aimed at Tuvok; she changed a program he used to try and kill him.

After Hackett’s Voyager stint ended, she did voice work in several Star Trek video games, the last in 2003. 

What did she do after Star Trek: Voyager?

From the late 90s, Hackett appeared in various T.V. shows and films. Among the films are Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) with Robert Downey Jr and the TV show I Heart Vampires, where she played the part of Siona McCabre for six episodes.

Other credits for Hackett include, Days of Our Lives for four episodes in 2018. In Days of Our Live, she played the character of Pamela Van Damme, who was the head of a military group called the ISA. Like Seska, Pamela was morally corrupt and covered up her evil deeds. This character, too, had a less than happy ending!

What is Martha Hackett doing now?

Martha is still acting in movies and on stage. In 2019, she acted in a virtual reality Amazon movie – Exorcism of Allie Fay. The movie’s plot, like The Exorcist, shows the expelling of a demon from a young woman by two priests.

Her last television role was in 2020 for the TV movie A Deadly Lullaby, where she played the character of Monica.

Martha is also very prominent in the theater and stage acting world. She was the lead or in supporting roles in fifteen-plus plays. In 2018 she played the lead actress in Edward Albee’s Occupant, which played at the Garry Marshall Theatre in Burbank.

One aspect of acting in any Star Trek series is the convention afterlife. Trekkies are a fanatically loyal fanbase. Like most Trek alum, Hackett has appeared at several conventions. Her most recent appearance was in 2021 at the Destination Star Trek – London convention.

Personal Life

Martha Hackett married Tim Disney, although the date of the marriage is unknown. Tim is the son of Roy E. Disney and the great-grandnephew of Walt Disney. 

Tim Disney was born in 1961, graduated from Harvard and became a filmmaker.

While filming Voyager, Martha got pregnant and instead of hiding the pregnancy, writers wrote her pregnancy into the show.

Martha and Tim have two sons together, although they divorced in 2004.

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Everything You Need to Know About Star Trek: Voyager's Seska

A guide to one of Voyager’s most ferocious foes!

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The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager faced a variety of foes during their journey home. External threats came from the Borg and the Kazon , but one of the show’s most memorable came from their own crew!

Seska joined the crew as part of the Maquis ship Val Jean when their fighters were brought onboard at the start of the series. However, Seska’s own secrets led to her partnering with the Kazon to try and betray the Voyager crew and Captain Janeway . As she faces off against The Diviner in this week’s round of the Villain Showdown , we’re diving into Seska’s exploits throughout her time on the series.

Seska’s Secrets

Seska’s first appearances showed her to be a Bajoran woman, but she was hiding her true identity. She was, in fact, a Cardassian operative disguised as a Bajoran fighter who had infiltrated the Val Jean . She and Chakotay previously had a romantic connection while she was undercover, using their relationship to get information to report to her Cardassian superiors.

This isn’t the first time that a character has undergone surgery to appear as a different alien species. There are plenty of examples from across the franchise, including notably in the Deep Space Nine episode “ Second Skin ,” when Kira Nerys is kidnapped by Cardassians and gaslit into believing she is a Cardassian operative.

Aboard Voyager

Seska made it clear to Chakotay when they were onboard the Voyager that she would support a Maquis mutiny to take over the ship. Still disguised as a Bajoran, she expressed disapproval of Starfleet and their procedures. She and her close friend B’Elanna Torres were both assigned to Engineering by Janeway; but as B’Elanna became part of the Voyager family, Seska never fully acclimated.

In the episode “ Prime Factors ,” she and several other crew members attempted to steal spatial trajector technology from the Sikarians; when that plan failed, Seska attempted to lie to Janeway about what happened. However, B’Elanna held her back, stating she didn’t want to lie— this signaled a fracturing of their friendship.

Eventually, Seska collaborated with the Kazon, offering them replicator technology in exchange for their help. In the episode “ State of Flux ,” her Cardassian background was discovered by The Doctor . Though she tried to lie and cover up her past, she ultimately revealed the truth when confronted by Chakotay, then escaped to a Kazon ship.

As part of the Kazon, Seska became a consort of First Maje Culluh, having a child with him. She continued to aid the Kazon in their attacks on the Voyager until she died.

At one point following her death, Chakotay traveled through time due to temporal distortions and discovered Seska and other Kazon trying to take over the ship through Engineering in the year 2370. Upon learning her fate, Seska tried to change the course of history to ensure the Kazon’s victory and her own survival. However, they were defeated and her memory of the incident was wiped.

Seska appeared in 13 episodes of Voyager. Her trickery and cunning made her a worthy adversary of the crew. Will she emerge victorious in a showdown with The Diviner? Vote for your favorite and check back next week for the winner!

Stay tuned to StarTrek.com for more details! And be sure to follow @StarTrek on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

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Seska was a female Cardassian operative of the 24th century Cardassian Union . On one fateful mission, she was genetically altered to appear Bajoran in order to infiltrate the Maquis on the Val Jean under Chakotay , and use her relationship with him to steal Maquis secrets. However, she was forced to join the crew of the USS Voyager when it and the Val Jean were stranded in the Delta Quadrant . Unwilling to live by Starfleet rules, she later left to join with a Kazon , Culluh , in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Voyager . ( VOY : " State of Flux ", " Maneuvers ", " Basics, Part I ", " Basics, Part II ", " Worst Case Scenario ")

• 1.1 The Maquis and USS Voyager
• 1.2 Collaboration with the Kazon
• 1.3 Hologram
• 2.1 Chakotay
• 2.2 B'Elanna Torres
• 3 Personality and traits
• 4.1 Appearances
• 4.2 Background information
• 4.3 Apocrypha
• 4.4 External links

History [ ]

The maquis and uss voyager [ ].

Seska first joined the Maquis in 2370 while undercover for the Cardassian Union . ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

She served under Chakotay aboard the Maquis raider Val Jean when it was catapulted into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker 's array in 2371 . ( VOY : " Caretaker ") She was close friends with B'Elanna Torres and on Voyager was granted the field commission of Ensign , initially in the science department but later moving to engineering . Not very fond of the Federation , Starfleet , and their "mighty principles", she often expressed her disapproval and annoyance with their rules and made it clear to Chakotay that if the situation ever necessitated it, she would support a Maquis mutiny . ( VOY : " Caretaker ", " Parallax ", " Prime Factors ")

She was involved with Lieutenants Torres, Joe Carey , and Tuvok in a covert attempts to acquire spatial trajector technology from the Sikarians , behind Captain Janeway 's back. When their plan to steal the technology failed, she attempted a cover-up, but Torres held her back, stating that she did not want to lie anymore – something Seska found rather disappointing. ( VOY : " Prime Factors ")

Her disdain of Starfleet and Starfleet principles, such as the Prime Directive , led to her distancing herself from the crew further, ultimately leading to collaboration with the Kazon-Nistrim , offering them replicator technology in exchange for their help in this unknown part of the galaxy . She did not believe it mattered if something simple like replicator technology might shift the balance of power in this part of the quadrant , and she believed the primary goal should be to get back home and that was all that mattered. ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

Her true origins remained undiscovered until the time she helped transfer replicator technology to the Nistrim and was seriously injured during an attempt to cover-up her involvement in the transfer. The Doctor 's subsequent examination revealed her to actually be a Cardassian altered to look Bajoran. Seska denied this, claiming that she had suffered from Orkett's disease as a child and received a bone marrow transplant from a Cardassian woman named Kattell to survive. When Chakotay confronted her, revealing the cover-up, she finally confessed to everything and openly expressed her dislike for Captain Janeway's decision, calling her a fool for having gotten Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway being unwilling to give the Kazon what they wanted so that Voyager could have a powerful ally in the Delta Quadrant. Seska also expressed her disappointment in Chakotay, whom she believed naively followed Janeway, and stated that she couldn't imagine why she had ever loved him. Before she could be further questioned, she escaped Voyager by transferring to a Kazon raider . ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

Collaboration with the Kazon [ ]

After leaving Voyager , Seska immediately restored some elements of her Cardassian physiology and became the consort of First Maje Culluh , leader of the Kazon-Nistrim sect. Culluh had a thirst for power and she used that to manipulate him to do what she wanted. Equipped with Starfleet, Maquis, and Cardassian tactical experience, she provided the Nistrim with information about Voyager and schemed ways of stealing the ship and its technology.

In order to capture Chakotay, she planned a successful attempt to steal a transporter control module from Voyager , knowing that he would come after it. Even though Chakotay was able to destroy the module, he was captured and heavily beaten during interrogation. During his capture, Seska tried to get close to Chakotay but he rejected her advances, later laughing at Culluh, telling him that when Seska was through with him, she would kill him.

Shortly after Chakotay was rescued, Seska contacted him, claiming that she had impregnated herself by extracting his DNA and that she was carrying his child . At the same time, she had also told Culluh that the child belonged to him, thus using the baby to manipulate both men. ( VOY : " Maneuvers ")

Later that year, she and Culluh were contacted by Janeway and her crew who proposed building an alliance with the Nistrim in exchange for providing them with emergency supplies where needed. Culluh – who did not want a woman to dictate the terms of the agreement – insisted on a crew exchange as condition of the alliance; a proposal Janeway found unacceptable, resulting in the end of further negotiations. When Voyager formed an alliance with the Trabe – an enemy of the Kazon – instead, Seska was angered, accusing Culluh of having let Voyager slip away because of his attitude, which she promised would one day be his undoing. Even though Culluh did not like being talked to like that by a woman, she always managed to manipulate him to look the other way and acquiesce to her demands and scheming. ( VOY : " Alliances ")

Seska was not the only one disillusioned with Captain Janeway's policies: Voyager crewmember Michael Jonas also appeared to harbor resentment towards the Starfleet policies he had to live by and soon after Seska left, he contacted her, offering to collaborate with her and help sabotage the ship by supplying her and the Nistrim with vital information pertaining to Voyager . However, Janeway and Tuvok discovered Jonas' transmissions and through an elaborate plan were able to expose him. ( VOY : " Lifesigns ", " Investigations ")

Seska's baby

In late 2372 , Seska gave birth to the child she claimed to be Chakotay's. She immediately contacted him, claiming that Culluh had discovered that the child was not his and threatened to have the child be raised as a slave . This lured Voyager into a trap in which a Kazon operative named Teirna was able to enter the ship and detonate organic explosives in his bloodstream while on board, disabling the ship's power systems and the primary computer core . Janeway was unable to activate the auto-destruct sequence in time and the ship was boarded by Kazon troops. Soon after Seska and Culluh took over the ship, they marooned its crew on a desolate planet named Hanon IV .

During the Kazon occupation of the ship, Seska took stringent precautions against any possible threats, even questioning The Doctor's loyalty. That line of questioning was cut short when he revealed through a DNA analysis that her baby was actually half-Kazon, not half- Human , and thus not Chakotay's. This greatly disappointed Seska, who had been sure that the baby was half-Human and was hoping to forever trap Chakotay by her side.

After taking over the ship, Seska and Culluh did not get very far, however, as most of the Kazon were ill-equipped to navigate and control the ship's complex and unfamiliar technology. In addition, Tom Paris – who had left Voyager in a shuttle prior to the Kazon attack to seek help – with assistance from Talaxian forces, as well as The Doctor and Lon Suder , was able to retake the ship. During the mission to recapture Voyager , Seska was mortally wounded in the resulting overload of the console she was at and only had a few minutes to live. She collapsed and died reaching for her baby. Culluh discovered her body and escaped with their son just before the crew returned. ( VOY : " Basics, Part I ", " Basics, Part II ")

In 2377 , a temporal distortion shifted sections of Voyager into different timeframes with Chakotay being the only one capable of traveling between timeframes, unaffected by the temporal distortion after being given a chroniton -infused serum by The Doctor. One of the areas he visited was engineering during the Kazon-Nistrim takeover of the ship in 2372, where he encountered Seska and a number of Kazon trying to gain control of the ship after Engineering was isolated from the rest of Voyager . Although he was forced to tell Seska the truth about what had happened to try and restore Voyager to normal, when Seska learned that the Kazon were defeated in their efforts, she attempted to stop Chakotay's efforts to restore the timeframe, holding a past version of Janeway hostage to try and make him modify the plan to return Voyager to her time, hoping that she could use this new foreknowledge to avert the crew's efforts to take back the ship. However, these plans failed thanks to the intervention of various allies Janeway and Chakotay had recruited from other time periods – such as future versions of Icheb and Naomi Wildman or a still- Borg Seven of Nine – and Voyager was successfully restored to its original configuration in the correct timeline, erasing Seska's memory of her encounter with the future Chakotay. ( VOY : " Shattered ")

Hologram [ ]

Hologram of Seska

At some point in the early days of Voyager 's journey through the Delta Quadrant, Tuvok had created a holodeck training simulation program called " Insurrection Alpha " depicting a Maquis mutiny. At the beginning of their journey, he had perceived such a rebellion to be a very real threat and had devised a program to train Starfleet personnel in case of such a contingency. However, when he realized that the two crews were getting along better than anticipated, he deleted the program and never told anyone about it, fearing that it would trigger the very mutiny he wanted to avoid. At some point, Seska had discovered the unfinished program, which ended with Janeway and Paris returning from an away mission and beginning their attempts to retake the ship. Seska secretly reprogrammed it to act as a trap, arranging for the program to essentially 'turn' on Tuvok should he reactivate the narrative parameters file (i.e. attempt to edit the program). Over a year after Seska's death , the program was discovered by Torres and played several dozen times by various crewmembers, who found the story line very intriguing. When Tuvok and Tom Paris attempted to alter the program by writing an ending for it, Seska's trap was triggered and both men became trapped in the holoprogram with the safety protocols off. However, Captain Janeway was able to reprogram portions of the simulation to allow Tuvok and Paris to escape, simultaneously causing the "death" of the holographic Seska after giving Tuvok the chance to program a phaser rifle Seska was using to overload. ( VOY : " Worst Case Scenario ")

Personal relationships [ ]

Chakotay [ ].

Seska "questioning" Chakotay

Seska and Chakotay were romantically involved sometime in the past, although they had eventually decided not to pursue their relationship any further. However, a certain attraction between the two still existed and when Chakotay once reminded Seska of their decision to not be together anymore, she laughed it off, joking that stranded in the Delta Quadrant, he didn't have all that many options. Despite being hesitant to pursue a romantic relationship with her, Chakotay nonetheless had a soft spot for Seska and when she was accused of sabotage and collaboration with the enemy, he was the only one taking her side until the truth about her betrayal came out. Chakotay was devastated to find that not only had she collaborated with the Kazon but that in fact she was a Cardassian spy. Even though she insisted that she had truly loved him and was not after his meager Maquis secret, he still felt betrayed. Shortly after she was exposed and before her departure from Voyager , she expressed her deep disappointment in Chakotay who had decided to take on the kind of "mighty Starfleet principles" she abhorred and believed to be a hindrance to their efforts to find a way back home. She wondered how she could ever have loved him and shortly after beamed off the ship. ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

After this betrayal by Seska, Chakotay felt a great sense of shame and disappointment, because she had not only taken advantage of his trust but also because after everything he had done for her, she publicly humiliated him by turning out to have been a Cardassian spy who now had, once again, turned her back on him by defecting to the enemy.

Seska's infatuation and obsession with Chakotay did not end after her departure and she resorted to any manipulation possible to bring him to her, such as the time she lured him into a trap in which he was caught and tortured by Culluh and his men unsuccessfully for information about Voyager . She also used that opportunity to impregnate herself by extracting Chakotay's DNA. After the baby was born, she once again lured him to her side by pretending that the child was in danger. Unable to abandon his child, Chakotay – as soon as he found out – pursued her, a pursuit that led to the capture of the Voyager by the Nistrim and to the crew being marooned on Hanon IV. Although The Doctor determined that the child was not Chakotay's son, even after Seska was killed when Paris and the Talaxians managed to retake the ship, Chakotay still seemed to be affected by his memories of their old relationship. ( VOY : " Maneuvers ", " Basics, Part I ", " Basics, Part II ")

When Seska had found Tuvok's Insurrection Alpha holonovel training program depicting a Maquis mutiny and reprogrammed it with the goal of trapping whoever played it into the program, she had programmed the novel to portray a holographic Chakotay to be strongly enamored by her, and the two were enthusiastically living out their old wild Maquis ways the way Seska had always pictured and dreamed it would be. ( VOY : " Worst Case Scenario ")

When the Chakotay of 2377 found himself on Voyager during the Kazon control of the ship, he initially attempted to appeal to Seska by simply telling her what had happened, but when Seska tried to seduce and then force him to restore Voyager to her time period, Chakotay turned the tables on her by summoning other allies to aid him in retaking the ship, showing that he had moved on from any residual affection he had for her. ( VOY : " Shattered ")

B'Elanna Torres [ ]

B'Elanna Torres and Seska were somewhat kindred spirits not too unfamiliar with the strong emotions that come with anger. Both had also served in the Maquis under Chakotay's command and up until Seska's betrayal, they were good friends. At some point it even looked like Seska was warming up to the Starfleet crew, such as the time she and B'Elanna were joking with and teasing young Harry Kim about his disastrous date with one of the Delaney sisters on the holodeck.

However, unlike Torres who did make efforts to integrate into the crew, Seska rejected all that and chose a life more in tune with her Cardassian background. Torres pursued the spatial trajector technology of the Sikarians after Seska manipulated her to feel sorry for her now that she could not see her brother on his birthday on Nivoch as promised. When their plan backfired, Seska wanted to cover everything up by deleting all evidence leading to them. Torres held her back, saying that she was no longer going to lie and instead would take responsibility for her actions; a move that left Seska disappointed in Torres, accusing her of "having changed." Torres viewed the change Seska mentioned as a compliment and even though she did feel betrayed after the truth about Seska came out, unlike Chakotay – she was able to put it behind her. ( VOY : " Prime Factors ", " Maneuvers ")

Personality and traits [ ]

Seska was one of many Maquis who had trouble abiding by Starfleet regulations, though she initially tried to adjust to being a part of Janeway's crew. She made friends with both Tom Paris and Harry Kim while serving on Voyager and enjoyed a laugh at Harry's expense after hearing of their double date, seemingly enjoying herself while in their company.

She was one of many Maquis who tried to sway Chakotay into taking over Voyager and was shocked when he threatened to put her and another Maquis into the brig if they talked about it again. Her frustrations continued to grow when Janeway refused to take advantage of the people of Sikaris by using their advanced transport technology.

Her anger towards her came to a head when she was discovered to have given their replicator technology to the Kazon, blaming Janeway for their failed attempts to get home and calling her a weak leader before defecting to the Kazon.

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

• " Parallax " (Season One)
• " Emanations "
• " Prime Factors "
• " State of Flux "
• " Maneuvers " (Season Two)
• " Alliances "
• " Lifesigns "
• " Investigations "
• " Basics, Part I "
• " Basics, Part II " (Season Three)
• " Worst Case Scenario " (as a hologram)
• " Shattered " (Season Seven) (alternate timeline)

Background information [ ]

Seska was played by actress Martha Hackett .

Seska's rank insignia

Although Seska was invariably referred to as "ensign" during her appearances in uniform, she wore the provisional rank insignia of crewman (one hollow stripe). Contrarily, she was referred to as " Commander Seska" by Seven of Nine in VOY : " The Voyager Conspiracy ", however, Seven's clarity at the time had clearly been compromised.

In 2002 , Seska placed eighteenth in TV Zone 's list of the top twenty science fiction television villains. The Borg Queen was second, Dukat was fourth, Weyoun was eighth, and Q was eleventh.

Seska's true intentions in helping the Kazon-Nistrim were never explicitly revealed, though she initially claimed that by helping them, she would be helping Voyager gain a protective ally. ( VOY : " State of Flux ")

Apocrypha [ ]

In the Voyager novella "The Third Artifact", part of The Brave and the Bold, Book Two , Seska's past as an undercover agent for the Cardassian Empire is explored. In there, Seska had been made an intelligence operative for the Obsidian Order in 2361 and by 2367 , she underwent surgical operations to transform her Cardassian physiology into that of a Bajoran so she could infiltrate the Bajoran Resistance . After the Occupation of Bajor ended in 2369 , Seska was assigned to spy on the Maquis.

Her mirror universe counterpart ( β ) appeared in the novella " The Mirror-Scaled Serpent " and the novel Rise Like Lions . She was a Cardassian glinn serving in the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance who defected to the Terran Rebellion prior to 2371 . She was killed in Rise Like Lions .

External links [ ]

• Seska at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Seska at Wikipedia
• 2 Klingon augment virus
• 3 Daniels (Crewman)

Martha Hackett

Series: Voyager, DS9, TNG

Character(s): Terellian alien, Sub Commander T’Rul, Seska

Hackett’s first experience of Star Trek was when she auditioned for the role of Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but lost out to Terry Farrell. She subsequently was cast as a member of the Terellian alien species in the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…”. She appeared on Deep Space Nine as the Romulan Sub Commander T’Rul in the two part episode “The Search” in season three.

She was cast in Star Trek: Voyager in the recurring role of Seska, a Bajoran member of the Maquis crew who joined Voyager after it was stranded in the Delta Quadrant. She first appeared in the episode “Parallax” where she wore the blue uniform of a Starfleet science officer; this was later revealed to be a costuming error and she was subsequently seen in the uniform of the operations department.

When she was first cast in the role of Seska, she was not informed that she was a Cardassian spy. She later explained that “when I first started I was Seska the Bajoran Maquis member and they sort of worked everything else up in soap opera fashion.” Hackett became pregnant, which was written into Seska’s character. Seska was killed off in the second part of “Basics”, which came as a surprise to Hackett as she was previously sent a version of the script where Seska survived, but her baby died. She was only told that Seska was to die less than a day before filming. Following her character’s death, Hackett as Seska returned to Voyager twice more in the episodes “Worst Case Scenario” and “Shattered”. She appeared in a total of thirteen episodes of Voyager.

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The third "Star Trek" series to air in the 1990s, "Star Trek: Voyager" was also the flagship series for the all-new Paramount television network UPN. Making its debut in January of 1995, the series saw Captain Kathryn Janeway command the state-of-the-art starship Voyager on a mission to pursue a group of Maquis rebels. However, when a phenomenon envelops them both and hurls them to the distant Delta Quadrant, Starfleet officers and Maquis terrorists become one crew on a perilous journey home.

Despite a few cast shake-ups, "Voyager" ran for seven seasons and featured a consistently stellar ensemble. The series helped launch the careers of several of its lesser-known actors, while others can count the series as the highest point in their filmography. Some walked away from Hollywood after it concluded, while a few have since made big comebacks, returning to the roles that made them famous.

Since it ended in 2001, "Voyager" has aged like fine wine, earning new fans thanks to the magic of streaming where new generations can discover it anew. Whether seeing it for the first time — or even if you're watching it for the umpteenth — you may be wondering where the cast is now. Well, recalibrate the bio-neural gel packs and prep the Delta Flyer for launch because we're here to fill you in on what's happened to the cast of "Star Trek: Voyager."

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Following the show's conclusion in 2001, Mulgrew took a few years off from acting, returning with a small role in the 2005 film "Perception" with Piper Perabo. After a guest appearance on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Mulgrew snagged a recurring role on "The Black Donnellys" in 2007 alongside Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde and another in the short-lived NBC medical drama "Mercy" in 2009. Her return to a main cast, however, came in the Adult Swim series "NTSF:SD:SUV::," where she played an eye patch-wearing leader of an anti-terrorism task force alongside future "Star Trek" star Rebecca Romijn .

Of course, Mulgrew found a major career resurgence in 2013, starring in one of Netflix's earliest forays into original programming, "Orange is the New Black." In the series she stars as Red, an inmate at a women's prison, a role that would earn her an Emmy nomination. Mulgrew returned to "Star Trek" in 2021, voicing both Kathryn Janeway and a holographic version of the character in the Nickelodeon-produced CGI-animated series  "Star Trek: Prodigy."

Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay

Sitting in the chair next to Captain Janeway for seven seasons was Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay, a former Maquis first officer. Though Beltran counts his heritage as Latino, Chakotay was actually the first Native American series regular in the franchise but was sadly under-used, a fact that the actor has  commented on . Following "Star Trek: Voyager," Beltran's work on the small screen was mostly limited to guest appearances, popping up in episodes of "CSI: Miami" and "Medium" in the 2000s while filling roles in movies like "Taking Chances," "Fire Serpent," and "Manticore." 

Beltran's first recurring part on TV after "Voyager" was in the series "Big Love," starring Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn. In the series, he played Jerry Flute — another Native American — who has plans to construct a casino on a reservation. However, over the next decade, Beltran seemed to move away from acting, with a sparse handful of minor roles. He revealed on Twitter that he turned down a chance to play Chakotay one more time in the revival series "Star Trek: Picard," as he was unhappy with the part they'd written for him. 

Nevertheless, Beltran did come back to join Kate Mulgrew for the animated children's series "Star Trek: Prodigy." Voicing Chakotay in his triumphant return to the franchise, the series sees the character lost in space and his former captain on a mission to find him.

Tim Russ as Lt. Tuvok

Actor Tim Russ had already made a few guest appearances in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and even the film "Star Trek Generations" before joining the main cast of "Star Trek: Voyager" in 1995. Russ became a fan-favorite as Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, who was later promoted to Lt. Commander. However, after seven seasons playing the stoic, emotionless Tuvok, Russ kept busy with a variety of different roles, mostly guest-starring in popular TV hits.

This includes guest spots in everything from "ER" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" to episodes of "Hannah Montana" and "Without a Trace." He even appeared on the big screen with a small role in "Live Free or Die Hard" in 2007, but it didn't keep him away from TV, as he also had a multi-episode appearance on the hit soap "General Hospital." That same year, Russ joined the main cast of the Christina Applegate comedy "Samantha Who?" and later began working in video games, providing voice work for "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus" and "The Last of Us Part 2." 

Since then, the actor has kept busy with countless roles in such as "Criminal Minds," "NCIS: New Orleans," "Supergirl," and "The Good Doctor." More recently, Russ turned up in an episode of Seth MacFarlane's "Star Trek" homage "The Orville,"  and in 2023 voiced Lucius Fox in the animated film "Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham."

Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres

On "Star Trek: Voyager," the role of chief engineer was filled by Roxann Dawson who played half-Klingon/half-human B'Elanna Torres. Starting out as a Maquis rebel, she eventually becomes one of the most important members of the crew, as well as a wife and mother. Following her run on the series, Dawson had just a handful of on-screen roles, which included single episodes of "The Closer" and "Without a Trace." That's because, like her franchise cohort  Jonathan Frakes , Dawson moved behind the camera to become a director full-time.

Getting her start overseeing episodes of "Voyager" first, Dawson moved on to helm entries of "Star Trek" spin-off "Enterprise" before broadening to other shows across television. Since 2005, Dawson has directed episodes of some of the biggest hits on TV including "Lost" and "The O.C." in 2006, eight episodes of "Cold Case," a trio of "Heroes" episodes, and more. 

We could go on and on rattling off the hit shows she's sat behind the camera for but among her most notable might be the David Simon HBO series "Treme" in 2011, "Hell on Wheels" with future starship captain Anson Mount, and modern masterpieces like "Bates Motel," "The Americans," and "This is Us." Her most recent work saw her return to sci-fi, helming two episodes of the Apple TV+ series "Foundation."

Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Despite never seeing a rise in rank and perpetually remaining a low-level ensign, Harry Kim — played by Garrett Wang – often played a crucial role in defeating many of the enemies the crew would face in the Delta Quadrant. When "Star Trek: Voyager" left the airwaves, though, Wang bounced around, with his biggest role arguably coming in the 2005 Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries "Into the West." He has continued embracing his role as Ensign Kim by appearing at many fan conventions, where he found an entirely new calling. 

Beginning in 2010, Kim embarked on a career as an event moderator, serving as the Master of Ceremonies at that year's FedCon (a science fiction convention held in Germany). Later, he was the Trek Track Director at the celebrated Dragon Con event, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the course of his new career, Wang has held moderating duties and hosted panels and events at major pop culture conventions in Montreal, Edmonton, Phoenix, and Denver. According to Wang, his biggest role as a moderator came at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in 2012, where he interviewed the legendary Stan Lee .

In 2020, Wang joined forces with co-star Robert Duncan McNeill to launch "The Delta Flyers," a podcast that discusses classic episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager."

Robert Duncan McNeill as Lt. Tom Paris

Robert Duncan McNeill guest-starred in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as a hotshot pilot who broke the rules and wound up booted from Starfleet. So when producers developed a similar character, they brought in McNeill to play him, resulting in brash, cavalier helm officer Tom Paris. In 2002, after "Star Trek: Voyager" ended, McNeill starred in an episode of  "The Outer Limits" revival  and a few more small roles. However, like Dawson, McNeill left acting not long after the series ended to become a director and producer, starting with four episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Into the 2000s, McNiell helmed episodes of "Dawson's Creek" and "One Tree Hill" before becoming an executive producer on the action-comedy series "Chuck" starring Zachary Levi. Ultimately he'd direct 21 episodes of that series across its five seasons. From there, McNeill went on to sit behind the camera for installments of "The Mentalist," "Blue Bloods," and "Suits." 

Since the 2010s, McNeill has served as an executive producer on further shows that included "The Gifted," the Disney+ reboot of "Turner & Hooch," and the SyFy series "Resident Alien." In addition to hosting "The Delta Flyers" podcast with co-star Garrett Wang, McNeill came back to "Star Trek" in 2022 when he voiced the character of Tom Paris in a cameo on the animated comedy "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix

Another actor to appear on "Star Trek" before taking a leading role on "Voyager," Ethan Phillips played the quirky alien chef Neelix for all seven seasons of the show's run. A well-established veteran, his TV roles prior had included dramas like "NYPD Blue" and family hits like "Doogie Howser, M.D." Unfortunately, his role on "Voyager" never translated to big-time success after, though he hardly struggled for work. That's because he went back to his former career as a character actor.

In the ensuing years, Phillips could be seen all over the dial and beyond, with parts in "Touched by an Angel" and "8 Simple Rules" among many others, even popping up in a guest-starring role in an episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in 2002. Later he did a three-episode run on "Boston Legal," another Beantown-based legal drama from David E. Kelley, this one starring "Star Trek" legend William Shatner and "Deep Space Nine" alum René Auberjonois. Some of the biggest shows he's found work on during the 2010s meanwhile include "Better Call Saul" and a recurring role in the Lena Dunham comedy "Girls." He's also had roles in major movies, showing up in "Inside Llewyn Davis," "The Purge: Election Year," and "The Island."

Though he hasn't come back to "Star Trek," Phillips did return to sci-fi in 2020, joining the main cast of the HBO space comedy "Avenue 5" alongside Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine

Though she didn't arrive on "Star Trek: Voyager" until Season 4, Jeri Ryan arguably became the series' biggest star. She came in to help liven up a series that was struggling and joined the cast as a former Borg drone named Seven of Nine . It proved to be just what the series needed and a career-defining role for Ryan. One of the few cast members of "Voyager" to parlay her role into bigger success, Ryan immediately joined the David E. Kelley legal drama "Boston Public" after the series ended.

There she had a three-season run and in 2006 she secured another starring role on another legal drama, this time in the James Woods series "Shark," with Danielle Panabaker and Henry Simmons. Smaller recurring roles came after, including multi-episode stints on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Two and a Half Men," and "Leverage," before Ryan returned to a main cast with her co-starring role in "Body of Proof" in 2011 alongside Dana Delany. Parts in "Helix" and "Bosch" came after, as well as brief recurring roles in "MacGyver" and "Major Crimes," leading right up to her return to "Star Trek" in 2020.

That year, Ryan joined the cast of the revival series "Star Trek: Picard." Returning to the role of Seven of Nine, she supported series lead Patrick Stewart by appearing in all three seasons, and rumor has it she may even star in a spin-off. 

Jennifer Lien as Kes

Joining the Starfleet and Maquis crew aboard Voyager was Kes, a young alien woman with mild telepathic powers and just a nine-year lifespan, and played by Jennifer Lien. Unfortunately, her character never quite gelled, and in Season 4 Lien was written out to make way for Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine.

Leaving the series in 1997, Lien's career stalled in front of the camera, though she did manage a role in "American History X" alongside "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" star Avery Brooks. However, most of her subsequent work came in animation, with voice work in "Superman: The Animated Series" — where she played Inza, the wife of Doctor Fate — and a starring role as Agent L in "Men in Black: The Series." 

Unfortunately, Lien pretty much left acting shortly after that. She married filmmaker Phil Hwang and started a family but has faced personal problems along the way. While struggling to deal with her mental health, Lien was arrested in 2015 for indecent exposure and again in 2018 for driving without a license. 

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Manu Intiraymi as Icheb

Late in Season 6 of "Star Trek: Voyager," a storyline saw the ship rescue a stranded vessel commanded by a group of wayward Borg children. At the conclusion of the story, four young drones join the crew, becoming a surrogate family of sorts to Seven of Nine after jettisoning their Borg identities. The eldest of them is Icheb, a teenager who becomes like a brother to Seven, played by actor Manu Intiraymi. The young actor went on to make 11 appearances across the final two seasons of the show. 

When "Voyager" ended in 2001, Intiraymi continued acting, with his largest role coming in "One Tree Hill." There he played Billy — a local drug dealer — in a recurring role in 2012. Further projects were mostly independent films like "5th Passenger" in 2017 and "Hell on the Border," a 2019 Western starring David Gyasi, Ron Perlman, and Frank Grillo. 

In 2017, Intiraymi came under fire for criticizing fellow "Star Trek" actor Anthony Rapp, who'd made accusations of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey . A few years later, fans speculated those comments may have been why he wasn't asked to return to the role of Icheb in "Star Trek: Picard," with a new actor playing the part in a scene that killed off the character.

Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman

Plenty of TV shows have added a kid to shake up the status quo late into their run, and "Star Trek: Voyager" was not immune to this trope. In addition to Borg kids like Icheb, Samantha Wildman — the newborn daughter of a crewperson — became a recurring character beginning in Season 5, played by Scarlett Pomers. She'd wind up in 16 episodes, including a few where she played a leading role. In the aftermath of the end of the series, Pomers appeared in the Julia Roberts film "Erin Brockovich," and in 2001 joined the cast of the sitcom "Reba."

For six seasons Pomers starred as Kyra Hart, daughter of the show's star played by Reba McEntire. Appearing in a whopping 103 episodes, it was only Pomers' second regular role but also her last on-screen performance. When that series concluded, Pomers essentially retired from acting. Unfortunately, her exit from the stage was at least partly due to her ongoing battle with an eating disorder, and Pomers has since become an outspoken advocate for those struggling with anorexia and mental illness. In a 2019 interview with StarTrek.com , Pomers also talked about her subsequent career as a photographer, musician, and jewelry designer.

If you are struggling with an eating disorder, or know someone who is, help is available. Visit the National Eating Disorders Association website or contact NEDA's Live Helpline at 1-800-931-2237. You can also receive 24/7 Crisis Support via text (send NEDA to 741-741).

Martha Hackett as Seska

In the early seasons of "Star Trek: Voyager," one of the most compelling ongoing storylines was that of Seska, a Bajoran and former Maquis rebel and on-again-off-again lover of Chakotay. Played by recurring guest star Martha Hackett, it was later revealed that Seska was actually an enemy agent in disguise. Hackett would appear in a total of 13 episodes of the series, making it by far the largest role in her career. Still, she has appeared in some big hits over the last two decades.

Those included a small role in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" in 2005 and an appearance in the cult horror movie "The Bye Bye Man" in 2017. It also includes one-off appearances in episodes of popular projects on the small screen, like "The Mindy Project" in 2014, "Masters of Sex" a year earlier, and a recurring role in the daytime soap "Days of Our Lives" between 2016 and 2018. Thanks to her iconic role as Seska, though, Hackett continues to be a regular on the "Star Trek" convention circuit and was interviewed for the upcoming "Star Trek: Voyager" documentary "To the Journey."

Robert Picardo as the Doctor

For 30 years, the world of science fiction meant one thing when the moniker of "The Doctor" was uttered, but that all changed in 1995 with the launch of "Star Trek: Voyager." There, actor Robert Picardo — already known for antagonistic roles in "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" and "InnerSpace" — starred as the Doctor, the nameless holographic chief medical officer aboard the Voyager. Known for his offbeat humor and cantankerous attitude, he was played to perfection by Picardo, and it would become the actor's signature role. 

Still, even after leaving sickbay as the Doctor, Picardo had a healthy career, moving quickly into a role in "The Lyon's Den" starring Rob Lowe and Kyle Chandler in 2003. A year later he joined another iconic sci-fi franchise when he secured a recurring part in "Stargate SG-1"  as Richard Woolsey, a grumpy U.S. official who opposed the Stargate program. Following a string of appearances on the flagship series, Picardo joined the main cast of "Stargate: Atlantis" in 2006. A few years later, Picardo had another repeat role, this time as Jason Cooper on "The Mentalist," and he later enjoyed a stint on the Apple TV+ drama "Dickinson."

In 2023, the actor made a guest appearance on the "Quantum Leap" revival playing Doctor Woolsey, whose name is a clear tribute to his two biggest TV roles.

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The Americans : Alison Wright on Martha’s Surprising Return

The sight of Martha on Tuesday night’s episode of The Americans was more than sad, but at least fans got what they’ve been waiting for all season — a tiny sense of how the inadvertent spy is faring in Moscow. Four episodes earlier, we caught a glimpse of Martha at the supermarket , a move that shows exactly what actress Alison Wright says she loves about the FX drama. “It’s a typical Americans coming under the radar like that, just assuming that the audience is going to be smart enough, and quick enough, and paying enough attention to get it. I love that about the show. They don’t pander.” Vulture spoke to Wright about Martha’s new life, why the role prompted Ryan Murphy to offer her a part on Feud, and how she’s feeling about her Broadway debut in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat.

We knew Martha was alive and taking care of herself. But in “IHOP,” we learned a little bit more about her life in the Soviet Union. How did you feel about that scene? I think she’s still a little bit of an enigma after this episode. She seems to have some sort of resolve and strength, enough to let Gabriel know how disappointed in him she is, and to basically tell him to not bother coming back. Like she said, she understands it all now. She’s put it all together, one way or another. But it’s still not that clear, I don’t think, how she really is. We can see that she’s getting by. She’s brushing her hair, and she’s making food, and she’s putting on clothes — but more than that, we’re not really sure yet.

What kind of life does she have? It seems very lonely. Incredibly lonely and isolating. It would be incredibly lonely and isolating being dropped in Moscow today, never mind in 1984 — things are very tense and strained at the moment, with our country relations anyhow. But she’s not able to contact anybody. She can’t check up at all. She’s really, really isolated. She’s not getting any news about her parents or what they know about her. Has it all come out? Do they know everything? She’s still very much in the dark. When she opens that door to Gabriel, I think she’s assuming this is terrible news walking in the door. Does she have to go back? Are they gonna send her back to her death? Him being there is not good news at all, and I think she’s really afraid of what he may tell her.

Martha is such a great character. I know, right? I mean, how lucky did I get? Who knew? Yeah, I feel tremendously lucky. Couldn’t have asked for it to work out better.

Do people still stop you and ask about her? Oh my God, yeah. Every day. All the time. People are really excited, and I can see that they genuinely have empathy for her. They have genuinely been affected by her plight and her experience, and really, really feel for her. I see that in people’s faces every time they talk to me about her. The Js [ Americans showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields ] and our amazing team of writers created this wonderful character. It really rings true with a lot of people.

In the beginning, it felt like sometimes she was comic relief. When you’re watching something, you’re watching it through your own perspective. Whatever we think of people who are maybe a little bit too nice, or a little bit gullible, or don’t really have defense mechanisms, it’s easy to laugh at them. It’s not the right thing to do, but it’s easy to laugh at someone who you think is less than yourself. But I think she has definitely proved her worth, and that idea has completely changed about her.

When you started playing Martha, did you know she’d turn out to be such a strong lady? I knew that she and Clark would get married and have a long relationship. I knew that, very early on, she was gonna be completely taken in by this honey trap, and it was gonna take over her whole life. I didn’t know that she was gonna survive — let me put it like that — because in all of the reading that we were able to do about the times when this really did happen to women, the majority of them committed suicide when they found out the truth. So that was always hanging over it. The majority killed themselves immediately when they realized, not that they’d been spies, but that none of the love had been real. That they’d been played the whole time; that the guy was always working. So that was always the massive ax that was waiting to drop. The fact that she didn’t fall apart, the fact that she kept it together and survived, I didn’t necessarily know that was going to happen. I thought I might be jumping out of window somewhere in Gowanus.

We all thought the worst when we saw her leaving on the plane. Yeah. In a certain perspective, she’s lucky, I guess. Doesn’t really seem like it when you see her sitting all alone. But she’s alive, right?

Can you tell me if we’ll see her again? Of course I can’t, and you wouldn’t want me to anyway.

You’ve been very busy with Feud and Sneaky Pete, and now you’re on Broadway in Sweat . Is it true that Ryan Murphy offered you the part of Pauline on Feud ? You didn’t audition? That’s right, yeah.

How did that happen? Martha, I’m sure. I’m sure I have Martha and The Americans to thank for that 100 percent.

Were you floored? Absolutely. I didn’t believe it. I’m a big fan of Ryan Murphy and all the shows that he’s created. I hope I’ll get more of that in my future. I knew all about it because I had read about it in the trades. I’m a big fan of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? It was a camp classic when I was a teenager hanging out on the gay scene. It was what all the drag queens were doing, so as soon as I saw he was making something about that, I knew all about it.

Pauline wasn’t a real person, but she was interesting because she was so ahead of her time. It ended up being even more timely than Ryan could’ve ever assumed, you know, talking about wanting to be a woman in charge. She was a great character to play and very different from Martha, and I loved every second of it. I hope he invites me back for anything else in the future. It was immense!

How did you feel about Pauline’s story? I was really happy, you know. Because she was a composite character, there were a couple of options for how Pauline would turn out in the future, and I was very happy with the option that the writers chose — that she hadn’t quit, and she just made her own way and that hadn’t worked, but she was resilient enough and she bounced back. She didn’t just get lazy, and just get married and have children instead. She found another way. She was a successful filmmaker and I was really happy about that. I think it’s a great message to put out there.

It’s interesting that the main theme of Feud was to show how women, especially those of a certain age, were treated in Hollywood. It makes you realize that things haven’t changed that much, but then the show itself is an agent of that change, with all of the women who were cast in it and worked on it behind the camera. What was it like to be part of that? I’m a part of that phenomenon in two ways. The play that I’m doing is very much of the times. Sweat is about what’s happening outside of our doors in America right now, and Feud is about what’s happening for women in America and across the world right now. Same thing. The election that happened right in the middle of this proved that point perfectly. Never underestimate misogyny and sexism. Never underestimate it.

It feels really great to be a part of two projects that are actually part of the cultural conversation that we’re having at the moment. They really are the comment on our times. That’s always what you want to have as an artist. It takes it to a much deeper, more resonant level, if you’re really holding a mirror up to society and hopefully effecting change. But that’s the thing about women working in the business, whether it’s in front of the camera or behind the camera, and in the workplace in general: I think it’s time that we realize it’s not gonna just evolve naturally. We’re not just gonna become equals naturally. We’re not just gonna be paid the same or be treated the same. We proved with Feud that 50, 60 years later, all the struggles that we have are so similar. We have to actually effect change by putting our money where our mouth is, like Ryan Murphy has with his whole foundation . If Feud helps a few more people realize that, it will have done a tremendous service to society.

Did having so many women on set and behind the camera affect your performance? Did that bring anything different to the process for you? Well, I’ve never seen a woman on every camera unit. I’ve never seen that before. I think we were all very aware of the story that we were telling and the message of the story. That was a collective consciousness, but none of that stuff went by unnoticed. It was just a privilege to be on a female-centric project that shows women in such a generous light, and I would say, gives us our due. We were all very aware that was the essence of the project.

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Every Star Trek Species Played By Voyager's Tim Russ

Ds9’s defiant broke big star trek rules by having a cloaking device, i don’t think michael piller recreated his tng success with star trek: voyager season 2’s finale.

• Martha Hackett played multiple alien roles across Star Trek, including Seska, T'Rul, and Androna in different series.
• Her range includes playing a Bajoran, Cardassian spy, and Romulan, showcasing her versatility as an actress.
• Apart from her TV roles, Martha Hackett also lent her voice to Star Trek video games, expanding her contribution to the franchise.

Best known as Star Trek: Voyager 's duplicitous Seska, Martha Hackett has played members of five different alien species in the wider Star Trek franchise. Martha Hackett played a recurring role in the first two seasons of Voyager as Seska, a former lover of Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran) and a thorn in the side to Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Eventually, Martha Hackett's Seska was killed off in Voyager 's season 3 premiere, but returned as an evil hologram in "Worst Case Scenario" toward the end of that year.

Seska wasn't Martha Hackett's first role in the Star Trek universe, and nor was it her last . After leaving Star Trek: Voyager , Martha Hackett voiced characters in multiple video games, including Star Trek: Elite Force II . Also, like many of her fellow Voyager cast members , Hackett had previously appeared in another show. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine cast Martha Hackett as Sub Commander T'Rul in the two-part season 3 opener, "The Search". As well as being the role that officially introduced Martha Hackett to the Star Trek universe, it was also one of many different alien species that she played.

Best known as Voyager's Tuvok, actor Tim Russ has played members of some of Star Trek's most notable alien species in movies and TV shows.

5 Martha Hackett Played A Terellian in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star trek: tng, season 7, episode 25, "all good things".

Technically speaking, Martha Hackett's first Star Trek role was as Androna in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale . In a deleted scene from the TNG finale's past timeline, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D encounter the Terellians, who believed the anti-time eruption had the power to cure the sick and the dying. Androna had a short conversation with Captain Picard, where she thanked him for protecting them from threats made by the Romulan Star Empire.

Martha Hackett was offered the role of Androna after she unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Lt. Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

Martha Hackett's scene in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale was cut for time as it was felt that it distracted from the main cast of TNG . Martha Hackett was incredibly understanding about her scene being cut, telling The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine #7 that " the focus deserved to be on the main characters in their final story. " The six hours that Martha Hackett endured in the make-up chair to become Androna communicated to Star Trek 's producers that she could handle another role which would require a great deal of alien prosthetics.

Martha Hackett's deleted scene can be found on the Bluray release of the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale, "All Good Things".

4 Martha Hackett Played A Romulan In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Sub commander t'rul in ds9 season 3, episodes 1 and 2, "the search".

Sub Commander T'Rul (Martha Hackett) was intended to be a recurring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character, placed in charge of the cloaking device aboard the USS Defiant. This role would have made Sub Commander T'Rul the first Romulan crew member in Star Trek . However, as production began in earnest on DS9 season 3, it was decided that there wasn't much story potential in an officer that turned the Defiant's cloaking device on and off, and so T'Rul was written out.

Martha Hackett was offered the role of Seska in Star Trek: Voyager by Kim Friedman, who directed Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3, episode 1.

T'Rul also holds the distinction of being the first Romulan to be captured by the Dominion , as she is placed in their virtual reality prison alongside Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the crew. Collecting intelligence on the Dominion was the primary driver for the Romulan Star Empire, making an exception to the Treaty of Algeron regarding the Defiant's cloak. It's unclear what happened to T'Rul after the events of "The Search", but she presumably returned to Romulus to report on her experiences in the Gamma Quadrant.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's USS Defiant came equipped with a Romulan cloaking device, which broke a few in-universe and real-life Star Trek rules.

3 Martha Hackett Played A Bajoran In Star Trek: Voyager

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Seska (Martha Hackett) was one of Star Trek: Voyager 's Maquis crew members , and made her first appearance in season 1, episode 3, "Parallax". Seska was a Bajoran who served on the Val Jean with Chakotay, B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) and Tuvok (Tim Russ). Like many of the Maquis, Seska struggled to fit in alongside Voyager's Starfleet crew , causing serious tension aboard the stranded ship. Seska even made it clear that she was willing to support any Maquis mutiny aboard Voyager, although this action was never instigated.

When she was cast, Martha Hackett was given an outline of Seska that said she was " vigilant about the beliefs of the Maquis ", something which was later turned on its head.

In Star Trek: Voyager season 1, episode 10, "Prime Factors", Seska joined a covert mission to steal spatial trajector technology behind the back of Captain Janeway. This was a watershed moment for the Maquis crew members, as Torres refused to go along with Seska's cover-up , preferring instead to come clean and try and heal the division among the crew. This didn't go down well with Seska, who would reveal her true colors in the following episode, "State of Flux", which revealed Tuvok wasn't the only spy aboard Chakotay's ship.

2 Martha Hackett Played A Cardassian in Star Trek: Voyager

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Star Trek: Voyager season 1, episode 11, "State of Flux" revealed that Seska was actually a Cardassian spy who had been genetically altered to appear Bajoran . With her secret revealed, Seska made the decision to leave the ship and ally herself with Voyager 's Kazon villains . Seska returned several times between Voyager seasons 1 and 2, as she doggedly pursued revenge against both Janeway and Chakotay. While Janeway briefly lost her ship, it was Chakotay who came off worse from his former lover's scheming and manipulation. Chakotay was physically and psychologically tortured by the Cardassian, even being led to believe that he had fathered a child.

In a reverse of what happened to Seska, Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) was a Bajoran who was genetically altered to look Cardassian in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , season 3, episode

As a Cardassian female, Seska was also able to manipulate the patriarchal Kazons, particularly First Maje Cullah (Anthony De Longis ) . In Star Trek: Voyager 's season 2 finale, "Basics", Seska and Cullah lead a hostile takeover of the USS Voyager, stranding Janeway and the crew on the barren planet of Hanon IV. Their hijacking is foiled by the Doctor (Robert Picardo) and Lon Suder (Brad Douriff), and Seska was killed in the process. Her son, a half-Cardassian, half-Kazon child, was taken by Cullah, and neither father nor son were ever seen again.

Star Trek: Voyager showrunner Michael Piller wanted to recreate a TNG success story but missed the mark in Voyager's season 2 finale episode.

1 Martha Hackett Played A Klingon In Star Trek: Klingon

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The 1996 computer game Star Trek: Klingon had an impressive array of talent attached to it, including Star Trek: Voyager 's Martha Hackett. Subtitled " The Ultimate Interactive Adventure " it placed the player in the role of Pok, a Klingon Warrior who had to team up with Chancellor Gowron (Robert O'Reilly) to solve the murder of their father. Martha Hackett played K'Tar in the game's video sequences, which were directed by Jonathan Frakes .

The game introduces the "Klingon warrior's anthem" which was later used in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Soldiers of the Empire".

Martha Hackett is clearly having a ball hamming it up as a Klingon matriarch, and she's surrounded by other notable Klingon actors. J.G. Hertzler, who would go on to play Chancellor Martok in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine played Ler'at, while Michael Dorn voiced the Klingon language speaker. While it's not an official television entry in the Star Trek universe, the video sequences total an hour, and effectively play out as a new episode. It's therefore only right to honor Star Trek: Voyager 's Martha Hackett's Klingon performance in her impressive list of alien credits.

All episodes of Star Trek: Voyager are available to stream on Paramount+.

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The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Voyager, is a sci-fi series that sees the crew of the USS Voyager on a long journey back to their home after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy. Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, the series follows the crew as they embark through truly uncharted areas of space, with new species, friends, foes, and mysteries to solve as they wrestle with the politics of a crew in a situation they've never faced before. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the third installment in the sci-fi franchise and follows the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew members of the USS Enterprise. Set around one hundred years after the original series, Picard and his crew travel through the galaxy in largely self-contained episodes exploring the crew dynamics and their own political discourse. The series also had several overarching plots that would develop over the course of the isolated episodes, with four films released in tandem with the series to further some of these story elements.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.

Marti Peterson: "The Widow Spy" worked undercover for the CIA in Moscow ("1on1 with Jon Evans" podcast)

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Martha Peterson was like any other Mom. She did the laundry, bought the groceries, and cooked meals for her husband Steve and their two children in the family's home outside of Washington, DC. In 1997, with her two children well into their teenage years, Martha, known as Marti to her friends, thought it was time to reveal part of her secret to Tyler and Lora. They learned mom was a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency.

"There is a point with covert people in the CIA, we have this discussion among us about how to do this and when to do it," Marti says about deciding to tell her children. "If you wait too long, then they think you're lying about everything. If you tell them too early, they don't treasure the secret and they tell too many people."

The world knows about at least one of Marti Peterson's missions as the first female CIA operative in Moscow. Marti described the details in her book "The Widow Spy" , published in 2012. It is also chronicled in the International Spy Museum  in Washington, DC and the KGB Museum  in Moscow (the KGB was the intelligence agency that operated inside the Soviet Union). KGB agents captured Marti on July 15, 1977 on a bridge in Moscow, after she had delivered a package for an agent. Marti did not know at the time that the agent, code named TRIGON , had committed suicide in front of KGB interrogators weeks earlier.

"I was red-hot angry, and in fact, I did kick a couple of them," Marti recalls about being held and searched on the bridge. "One of them showed me a big bruise on his shin. Another later said on a TV special that one had been hospitalized and couldn't have sex because I had kicked him. I don't remember being that violent. But I was so angry, and I suspected something had happened to TRIGON. I was making myself very loud, in case he was still in the area. I didn't know that something had happened to him at that point."

Martha did not aspire to be a spy for the CIA growing up in Connecticut. She went to Drew University with the idea of becoming a teacher. But she met John Peterson while in college, and later married the Green Beret. After John returned from Vietnam, he went to work for the CIA, and an assignment took the couple to Laos in the early 1970s. John was responsible for equipping and training local Laos soldiers to attack North Vietnamese army, to stop the flow of weaponry from getting into the south, where it would have been used against US soldiers.  Marti details his work starting at 6:30 of the podcast , including the devastating news she received on October 19, 1972.

"I was sitting in the living room reading, and I heard the crunch of tires on the gravel in our driveway, so I thought John was home," she says. "It was about six o'clock. Then our (station) chief appeared at the door, and I thought 'why didn't John tell me he invited him over for dinner?' I was just as naïve as you could imagine. I went to the door, and he looked at me and said 'Oh, Marti!'. I knew right away that something had happened. He came in and told me that John's helicopter had been shot down. Then the house was filled with people, and they were all looking at me. I remember thinking how awful it must be to look at me, to know how sad I must feel."

Marti returned to the United States after John's death, and lived with her parents in Florida while recovering from her grief. One night at dinner a good friend suggested Marti look into working for the CIA. She had a Master's Degree, spoke other languages, and had experience working overseas. That's at 14:00 of the podcast.

"They wanted me to be a secretary or admin assistant, and that wasn't what I had in mind," she says. "I wanted, I guess, to take up where John had left off. I think they realized because of the experience I had just had, and I was surviving and coherent and I had a feeling that this is what I want to do, I found a mentor within the CIA who helped me get the right interview."

Marti went to work for the CIA on July 3rd, 1973, on what would have been John's birthday. At 15:30 of the podcast , Marti talks about the training she went through to become an operative. Performing dead drops. Car tosses. Taking covert pictures with miniature cameras. She was learning to be a spy.

Marti later interviewed with a man named "Bob", who was going out to be the CIA's Station Chief of Station in Moscow. She describes him as a "very happy man" who saw she did not cling to the past and was willing to take on a new challenge. He was also straightforward on how Marti would be treated if the Russians learned she was a spy.

"He said 'if they arrest you, and they beat you, it will hurt you as much as if they were beating me, and there's no difference'," Marti recalls. "So I think he neutralized the aspect of the fact that I was a woman and I had to be protected in some way or that things would be different."

Marti went to work in Moscow. During the day, she worked as a diplomat in the U.S. Embassy. At night, on weekends and during her lunch breaks, she would report to the CIA station in the same building to do her work as an operative. Marti says her co-workers in the embassy never suspected her of being CIA agent.

"I had a woman working for me, and she years later she said 'I never suspected you were doing anything but what your job was'. I even worked with eight Soviet women in my office in the Embassy and they never suspected, because I did the job," she says.

Marti did the job with the help of experts in the CIA's office. Agents like "Ed", who while pretending to be drunk used slight of hand to slip a lighter into the open window of a parked car.  She worked with "Neal", best explained as the station's version of James Bond's "Q", who devised creative ways of hiding cameras and documents that were passed between agents. Marti describes their efforts and ingenuity at different points of the interview.

At 25:15 of the podcast , our conversation turned to TRIGON, the code name for Alexandr Ogorodnik. An official in the Soviet Embassy in Bogota, Columbia, Ogorodnik began working for the US after the CIA learned he was having an affair with his boss' wife. Marti and TRIGON never met in person, but they traded information through dead drops and intelligence. At 32:00 of the podcast , she details how a "normal" exchange of information would work.

On the night the KGB agents arrested her, Marti was supposed to drop off a package for TRIGON in a pillar on the bridge over the Moscow River. The three men she had seen earlier in the evening, but did not suspect of being with the intelligence group, proceeded to search Marti and recover equipment she had on her body. That equipment later made it into the International Spy Museum.

KGB agents took Marti to Moscow's Lubyanka Prison for questioning. A picture of Marti seated next to an official from the U.S. State Department was later made public. Marti says she never feared for her life while in Soviet custody. She talks about the experience at 42:00 of the podcast.

"They didn't really accuse me of anything, other than putting down that rock (on the bridge)," Marti says about her captors. "The chief interrogator was pointed in not expressing too much because the room was so filled with people, and he was afraid of telling the entire story. I think they were surprised that it was woman that showed up that night. I think that was the "a-ha" moment to him that made him even more angry."

Marti later found out that the KGB had arrested TRIGON weeks before her capture, and he had committed suicide by biting into a poisoned pen. You'll hear that story at 44:00 of the podcast.

Marti returned to the United States the next day. Within 72 hours, she was in the Oval Office of the White House, detailing her operations to then-President Jimmy Carter. The story of her arrest came out a year later. Marti would continue in the CIA as a covert case worker, completing assignments overseas before retiring after 32 years.

In our conversation I asked Marti which television shows or movies do the best job of portraying the life of a spy. She also spoke about recently meeting TRIGON's daughter, who never knew her father but is learning about him through letters written by her mother. Marti shared her thoughts on the man she never met, but got to know as they worked to gather intelligence for the United States.

"There are other stories that are going to come out about this," Marti says about TRIGON's daughter planning to write a book about what she has learned. "It's the story that doesn't stop. It's a fascinating, fascinating story."

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Seska : Why create a thoron leak if you're not hiding someone?

The Doctor : I would think it's obvious: To make you believe I was hiding someone. I've had your people crawling through the bowels of this ship for hours, looking for an intruder.

Seska : You're more talented in the art of deception than you led me to believe.

The Doctor : I was inspired by the presence of a master.

Seska : Doctor, I have to inform you about a change of command. I'm curious how you'll react. The Kazon-Nistrim have taken Voyager.

The Doctor : [flatly while examining Seska's baby]  How interesting.

Seska : Does your program have any problem with that?

The Doctor : One humanoid is pretty much the same as another from a holographic point of view. I'm programmed to provide medical care to anyone who needs it.

Seska : Tell me, is it within your program's capabilities to lie or be deceptive?

The Doctor : I've learned that a bedside manner occasionally requires me to... how shall I put it... soft-pedal the truth? But bald-faced lying, calculated deceit - I don't have much experience with that sort of thing; but, my program is adaptive. If you really need me to be deceptive, I'm sure I could learn.

Seska : It's not exactly what I meant.

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