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	PLAYED BY: Robin Sachs SPECIES: Annari Male General Valen was the commander of an Annari warship which was lost in the Void, an inert layer of subspace that trapped ships for over five years. To survive, he preyed upon unprepared vessels that arrived. When the ships first were pulled through the subspace tunnels, they were disoriented, and his surprise attacks were often devastating. When USS Voyager was caught in the Void, Valen pretended to be an ally of Kathryn Janeway. Valen told Janeway that the only way to obtain energy and supplies within The Void is to attack new ships and steal their supplies. Janeway refused to do this even though it had lost most of its supplies to another ship that attacked it. He later betrayed Janeway. Valen stole the supplies from the ship that attacked Voyager and refused to return them. Voyager recovered some of the supplies by knocking out Valen's shields. He attacked Voyager so that he could steal her power sources. After Voyager had formed an alliance with other ships in The Void in an attempt to escape, Valen attacked them. His attack failed when Voyager beamed over Fantome, a native of The Void, who sabotaged Valen's ship. Voyager and the other ships escaped.
	PLAYED BY: Paul Willson SPECIES: Hierarchy Male Loquar was a member of the Hierarchy. He was captain of a ship that became trapped in the Void, an enclosed section of space without stars or planets, surrounded by a barrier that made escape impossible.   When his ship was sucked into the Void, it was attacked by other ships also in the Void that wanted to steal its technology and its goods. USS Voyager helped drive off the attackers, and Loquar joined Voyager's alliance. This alliance protected Loquar's ship, and when Voyager was able to produce a polaron modulator, Loquar and his ship escaped the Void along with Voyager and other members of the alliance.
	PLAYED BY: Scott Lawrence SPECIES: Nygean Male Garon was captain of a Nygean ship that was caught in the Void, a section of enclosed space without stars or planets. Kathryn Janeway invited him to join her alliance. This alliance was set up for protection and also to attempt to escape the Void. At first Garon was reluctant to join and told Janeway he would think about it. When Valen, another captain of a ship in the Void, attacked the USS Voyager, Garon came to Janeway's aid and helped drive the attackers off. Garon and his ship escaped with Voyager from the Void using a polaron modulator developed by Voyager.
	PLAYED BY: Jonathan Del Arco SPECIES: n/a   Fantome was a member of a species that was native to the Void. He was encountered by USS Voyager in 2377 within the Void aboard a derelict starship. He had purposely stowed away during the transport of a tricesium warp core casing. He was found hiding in it by Seven of Nine and B'Elanna Torres. They noted he had a badly injured leg and brought him to sickbay. The Doctor had difficulty treating him at first because he was extremely skittish and wouldn't allow The Doctor near him. The Doctor had discovered that he had an extremely large lung capacity, which allowed him to survive in an oxygen-less atmosphere for a certain period of time. He also seemed to have a voracious appetite. Seven of Nine seemed to take a liking to him and even gave him a portion of her rations to eat. When Seven returned to see how he was doing, she found that The Doctor had managed to treat him when he seemed to calm a bit when The Doctor had begun humming the aria "Veglia, o donna, questo fiore" from the Italian opera Rigoletto. The Doctor had then decided to play the full orchestral version of the opera so he could treat him, which was successful.
	PLAYED BY: Michael Shamus Wiles SPECIES: n/a   He was encountered by the USS Voyager when that Federation starship was trapped within the Void in 2377. Bosaal had technology that could help both ships escape the Void. However, when he saw Fantome aboard Voyager, he described him as vermin. Fantome's species, which is native to the Void, had infested Bosaal's ship, causing engineering problems. After Voyager beamed Fantome's people off Bosaal's ship, Bosaal became an ally of Captain Janeway's and offered to help their ships escape the Void. Voyager chief engineer B'Elanna Torres said she needed to build a polaron modulator to generate the energy to escape the Void. Bosaal produced one, but he was soon found to have stolen it from another Void-trapped ship after he killed its crew. In Janeway's belief that using the device would make her and the crew of Voyager accessories to murder, she threw Bosaal and his ill-gotten polaron modulator out of the alliance. Bosaal and his ship later reappeared with Valen's and sought to destroy Voyager. However, they were both left behind in the Void when Voyager and its allies escaped.

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