Star Trek: 10 Bloopers You Need To See
2. Here Goes!
There are so very few bloopers around for Star Trek: Voyager that you’d better enjoy the ones we have. It is a shame there aren't any more, as the set of Voyager (at least at first) seemed like riotous good fun at times. As Kate Mulgrew notes in her fearless first memoir Born With Teeth, the cast would often erupt into "uncontrollable laughter," in particular when they were "all exhausted and slaphappy". Mulgrew recounts that she was often "reduce[d] to tears […] of laughter" by impromptu chorus lines and high kicks, impeccable impersonations, and other shenanigans from the "boys" aboard ship.
The outtakes that exist do hint at such antics. In one, from a shuttle scene in the episode Coda, we see that Robert Beltran as Chakotay is clearly finding one bit of dialogue a bit tricky – a very fast line about a tachyon burst and Vidiian ships. Beltran begins to bungle, but carries on anyway, giving us:
If you’re going to emit that tachyon ship beam, ship it down to the ship, and we’ll ship it out of here.
Mulgrew can do little else but deliver her next line, "Here goes!" before the pair are in hysterics.
Tim Russ as Tuvok also provides his fellow actors with some well-crafted comic relief. His deliciously silly over-(re)acting to a phaser hit, from what appears to be the episode Worst Case Scenario, is an outtake to behold. His keen sense-of-humour is also on full display as he pranks the crew whilst filming the season two episode Innocence. "Man, I ain’t goin’ in there," he yells as he runs away from that Drayan Benjamin Button-style death cave.