Star Trek: 10 Things You Never Knew About Chakotay

Robert Beltran never made his feelings about Voyager's final episode a secret. He publically bashed it, directing his ire at the writers. He claimed that they had become so frustrated over Voyager's falling ratings that they rushed the end, intent only on concentrating on Star Trek: Enterprise to follow.

However, while he didn't like the episode overall, he was glad that he and Jeri Ryan were given their romance in the end. He claimed that it was he, through Jeri, who dared Brannon Braga to write it into the script. Ryan and Braga were dating at the time, so Beltran felt that the inclusion of the story was Braga's insistence that he wasn't jealous.

However, of the romance, Beltran felt glad for its inclusion but, like much of the rest of the episode, it was far too rushed. As a viewer, they are depicted as rather suddenly being on a third date, with no mention of a previous engagement. It could be said, retroactively, that Human Error and Natural Law both laid the groundwork, while in reality, it seemed like a shrugged attempt at giving everyone a happy ending.

Whatever the actual reason for this pairing, Chakotay and Seven re-entered the Alpha Quadrant as partners. However, as Seven made no mention of him on arrival in Star Trek: Picard and seems geared toward a relationship with Raffi, it feels safe to say that what happens in the Delta Quadrant, stays in the Delta Quadrant.