10 Things We Learned From The Star Trek Voyager Cast Reunion

10. Robert Duncan McNeil Used To Read During Filming

Filming can take a long time on set. Robert Duncan McNeil learned this early on in production, though of course he was no stranger to Star Trek by the time he arrived to play Tom Paris.

As most fans already know, he had appeared years earlier in the role of Nicholas Locarno, in The Next Generation. However, it seems that even in his previous experience, he had underestimated the length of time it would take to capture the money shots.

As Voyager began production, the main cast were thrown into long production hours, forced to wait for take after take to be completed while shots reworked, restaged and refilmed to the director's satisfaction. McNeil found that the best way to get through all of this was to start working his way through his own personal library.

He would often bring a book on the set and, while the other actors were being used for close ups, but he was still required for line readings, he would get himself lost inside a book. Kate Mulgrew jokingly said that this used to cause issues as well, as she would be expecting a line and McNeil would often have lost his place, immersed in whichever book he was working on that time.

Having the conn station directly in front of him allowed him to keep these books out of sight - a handy way to pass the time on set!