Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Tuvok

7. Early Casting Leads To High Anxiety

Tim Russ was one of the first people cast on Star Trek: Voyager. He recalled the immense pressure that everyone felt as they tried their hardest to make the show work. He had been cast alongside Roxann Dawson, though Kate Mulgrew was yet to audition.

This meant that he and Dawson were present for the screen test of another Janeway hopeful - Susan Gibney. She, like Russ, had appeared in Star Trek before, most notably as Dr Leah Brahms. At this event, Russ recalled feeling extreme anxiety when preparing his performance.

As it was the earliest part of production on Caretaker, Russ feared that getting any part of his performance wrong would lead to an immediate replacement, rather than any consideration or time to change. He needn't have worried as not only was his casting almost immediate but he spent much of the next seven years stood on the bridge, even as several other actors came and went.