Episode Guest Characters

TREKCORE > VOY > EPISODES > DEATH WISH > Guest Characters
 

PLAYED BY: Jonathan Frakes
SPECIES: Human Male

Commander William Riker is a noted Starfleet officer. He is perhaps best known for his assignment as first officer under Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Q brought him 70,000 light years to the Starship Voyager to act as a witness in the Quinn matter.

PLAYED BY: John de Lancie
SPECIES: Q

Q himself was touched by Quinn's dedication and beliefs – Quinn had previously been an admirer of Q's, because of Q's propensity to stir controversy and cause disorder – and actually provided Quinn with the means with which to commit suicide. Q resolved to return to some of his old habits, and to encourage the Continuum to allow more chaos in their own order.

 

PLAYED BY: Gerrit Graham
SPECIES: Q

Quinn made a plea for political asylum to Captain Kathryn Janeway. A courtroom hearing took place aboard Voyager to determine if asylum should be granted. Lieutenant Tuvok served as his defense. He stated that he was sick of immortality. There was nothing left for him to explore, his life was pointless, and a torturous bore. Q tried to prove the worth of Quinn's life by calling witnesses such as Isaac Newton, Maury Ginsberg and William T. Riker, pointing out how Quinn had affected their lives for the better.

PLAYED BY: Peter Dennis
SPECIES:
Human Male

In his lifetime, Newton once encountered the man later known as Quinn. Quinn was sitting under the tree the day the apple fell on his head. As it happened, Quinn had jostled the tree when he got up to leave, just before the apple fell. As a result, a new era in Human science was born.

PLAYED BY: Maury Ginsberg
SPECIES: Human Male

Maury Ginsberg was a spotlight operator at the famous Woodstock music festival in New York on Earth in 1969. He hitched a lift to the concert and noticed a disconnected cable that could have ruined the concert. He was not aware that the man who drove him there was the member of the Q Continuum later known as Quinn.