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TREKCORE
> VOY >
EPISODES >
CATHEXIS >
Behind the Scenes
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Holocharacter Mrs
Templeton is played by Carolyn Seymour, who was born in
England. She plays Commander Toreth in the TNG episode
"Face of the Enemy". |
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In Janeway's gothic
holonovel, Lindsey Haun plays the holodeck character
Beatrice Burleigh in
"Cathexis",
"Learning Curve", and
"Persistence of Vision". However in the episode
"Real Life",
she played Belle, the daughter of the Doctor in his family holoprogram. |
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Lt. Durst is played by
Brian Markinson, who plays the eccentric Dr. Geiger in the
DS9 episode
"In The Cards". |
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Janeway's holonovel was
originally the opening for
"Eye of a Needle" but later
appears in
"Cathexis" due to time constraints. In the
original scene, the holoprogram is interrupted by Kim
coming to the holodeck to tell Janeway that he may have
found a wormhole. In this episode, the scene is interupted
when Kim makes a com. call to Janeway to inform him about
the returning shuttlecraft carrying Tuvok and Chakotay. |
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Brannon Braga:
"I thought the episode was going to
be horrible. I didn't have a good time writing it.
Basically: a twist on the alien invasion story in that the
alien is actually Chakotay's sub conscious mind. In the
end, though, it's really not about anything. Not my
greatest shining moment. It's got tension and action at a
point when we needed an infusion of that, but that's about
it." |
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David Livingston's
reservations are about the use of Chakotay's medicine
wheel, which became a key plot point.
"I wanted to actually paint it onto
the set because it's what B'Elanna would have done. She
doesn't care if she's defacing anything. She's going to
come in and take care of her friend. They resisted it, and
instead we had this piece of skin with a design on it hung
in there. I think it would have been more fun if she had
painted it onto the wall of the set regardless of the
consequences." |
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Jeri Taylor:
"A show that sounded better in
concept than it turned out to be. Some people liked it,
but I wasn't sure it was entirely successful. I thought it
was a little confusing and so is the twist. It was talky
and not as compelling as it should have been." |
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Kenneth Biller:
"I love the twist. I think it
represented an interesting game of cat and mouse during a
period when we were stuck doing a whole bunch of bottle
shows." |
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Michael Piller:
"There were logic problems. I was
not comfortable with the logic of a lot of the things
going on. And I thought that once the possessions became
known, Janeway was acting like the alien through the whole
thing. It just seemed like it was very eerie and moody,
but there's not a lot of logic to the way people were
acting in the show. The idea of doing 'Ten Little Indians'
(a murder whodunnit by Agatha Christie) with the murderer
changing places was a fascinating idea, but it got very
complex and dry and was a hard premise to solve. It's one
of my least favorite." |
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Tim Russ:
"The whole bridge scene with the
phaser battle and stuff was different originally. It
didn't make any sense. It wasn't consistent with Vulcan
attributes, and we had to change it. I said to Jeri
Taylor, 'You cannot execute this kind of thing in the
story because it makes no sense. It's not consistent. It's
a physical fact.' In the script, they had Tuvok blinded by
the flash, but Vulcans have a secondary eyelid to protect
them, and that's been established in the TOS episode "Is
There In Truth No Beauty?" Amazingly, the director brought
those points up in a story meeting because she had
problems with the scene because it didn't make any sense
in terms of filming and blocking. We both were sort of in
league for different reasons, but she brought it up in a
story meeting, and they just basically dismissed her. What
we run into, even in Star Trek, is that in most television
there is a certain degree of mediocrity. Hell, you can see
mediocrity in a hundred fifty million dollar film where
they completely forgot what the story was about. In
television, what I see these days is that people just want
to get from point A to point B, and they've got a great
plot twist and it butchers all the character development,
but 'Gee, it's a great surprise.' Well, it's not
justified, and to me it's not justifiable to jeopardize
the integrity of the character in order to get a rise out
of somebody because then you've just made the thing
inconsistent." |
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Tim Russ says he is also
disturbed by the show's pervasive use of technobabble -
"It's one of the reasons I never
really got warmed up to TNG. How can you warm up to
something that you're not really understanding entirely?
Half of that stuff is made up. I think they're hurting the
broad base of their audience by doing that. It bothers me
a great deal. I think they should use technobabble much
more sparingly. it takes the same amount of time to say
the same thing, but in a way that makes sense: 'Sensors
indicate there's something out there. It's approaching at
such and such miles an hour.' That's not complicated." |
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Originally Jeri Taylor
had planned to make Janeway's holodeck novels a pioneer
adventure, but perhaps because of the easy comparisons
that could be made to 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' she
adopted the Jane Eyre-tinged story line. In addition, as
narrated by Poe, Kate Mulgrew did not wish to get on a
horse, and the cost of location shooting was prohibitive.
"The holonovels are something that
she does like. I read adventure novels and thrillers-as a
stress reliever. So these are like reading in the
twenty-fourth century. You go and you actually play one of
the characters. So it's the only place where she can
forget about being a captain for a couple of hours and get
into a completely different situation, where she has a
husband and she has children and she lives a life utterly
unlike the one that she lives. It's more that kind of
motivation than an intellectual curiosity about a period
of history. In my heart I would like to see her sort of
finish this novel and start another one next season.
Whether that will happen, I cannot say. We may return to a
different novel for her, but that was one of those things
that we were not getting the feedback from the fans that
seemed to justify its continuing. A lot of people had
problems with Janeway being in what would be considered a
servile position. A lot of people just aren't fans, as I
am, of Gothic novels and just sort of didn't get it. I
thought it was great fun, but I'm never afraid to cut our
losses if something isn't working. We wrote a conclusion
in which everything got knitted up, because I thought it
was a shame to just leave it." |
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