Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Sep 18, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min · 10 segments
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode The Void, Voyager gets pulled into a dark, starless region of space—no exits, no resources, and no friendly neighbors. Other ships trapped there have survived by…
Now most recently, we covered Prophecy, where he also shared a credit with Ken, along with friends of the show, Larry and Janet Nemetschek.
And when it came time for the teleplay, Raf Green shares the credit again here with James Kahn, who we also discussed recently with his work on Lineage.
And similar to Ken Biller, who had worked his way up from staff writer to executive producer, James had been promoted to supervising producer in Voyager's seventh season.
Most recently we discussed Mike's direction in Repentance, and he has got two more episodes in season seven before we catch up with him again on Enterprise.
Got a lot of guest stars, a lot of people hanging out in The Void, but we're going to focus in on a handful.
Uh, let's see, the first personal encounter in The Void is with General Valen, played by Robin Sachs.
He was close though to being in Star Trek before, because Robin actually auditioned for the role of Benjamin Sisko on DS9, so there is a parallel universe where that happened.
Now, first to form an alliance with Voyager is Garron, played by Scott Lawrence.
Scott has worked all over the industry since the mid-'80s when he made his TV debut in an episode of Murder She Wrote.
The TV guest credits came nonstop, and Scott's feature film credits include Cloverfield, Avatar, and yes, a Star Trek film.
But Scott also dabbles in the dark side, and he has been the voice of Darth Vader in multiple Star Wars video games.
Lokar is one of the Overlookers from the Hierarchy, that species that we met back in Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy.
Here he is played by Paul Wilson, and without all that alien makeup prosthetic, he is very recognizable as Bob from Office Space.
He also had long recurring roles on It's Gary Shandling Show and as Paul on Cheers.
He appeared on The X-Files, and you can even catch him as Winston Churchill in FDR: American Badass.
Now most recently, we covered Prophecy, where he also shared a credit with Ken, along with friends of the show, Larry and Janet Nemetschek.
And when it came time for the teleplay, Raf Green shares the credit again here with James Kahn, who we also discussed recently with his work on Lineage.
And similar to Ken Biller, who had worked his way up from staff writer to executive producer, James had been promoted to supervising producer in Voyager's seventh season.
Most recently we discussed Mike's direction in Repentance, and he has got two more episodes in season seven before we catch up with him again on Enterprise.
Got a lot of guest stars, a lot of people hanging out in The Void, but we're going to focus in on a handful.
Uh, let's see, the first personal encounter in The Void is with General Valen, played by Robin Sachs.
He was close though to being in Star Trek before, because Robin actually auditioned for the role of Benjamin Sisko on DS9, so there is a parallel universe where that happened.
Now, first to form an alliance with Voyager is Garron, played by Scott Lawrence.
Scott has worked all over the industry since the mid-'80s when he made his TV debut in an episode of Murder She Wrote.
The TV guest credits came nonstop, and Scott's feature film credits include Cloverfield, Avatar, and yes, a Star Trek film.
But Scott also dabbles in the dark side, and he has been the voice of Darth Vader in multiple Star Wars video games.
Lokar is one of the Overlookers from the Hierarchy, that species that we met back in Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy.
Here he is played by Paul Wilson, and without all that alien makeup prosthetic, he is very recognizable as Bob from Office Space.
He also had long recurring roles on It's Gary Shandling Show and as Paul on Cheers.
He appeared on The X-Files, and you can even catch him as Winston Churchill in FDR: American Badass.
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