But these were very enlightened men, and the decision to have a female captain was made somewhere in a pay grade way above me. I suspect they perceived it would look better at least if there were a woman on the team. I have said before and I will say it again, I think Rick Berman and Michael Piller didn’t need me to create Voyager. She also made it clear that having a female captain was the plan even before she joined the team. It was right, and just, and what it should be. And I was frankly and thankfully unaware of that, rumblings of anger among fans or whatever they were, I suppose it was to be expected, but I didn’t hear anything about it, so I just cruised along. So it became an obvious next step for us. I was somewhat accustomed to being in a position of leadership myself. I honestly never gave it those kinds of thoughts. Garrett Wang and Jeri Taylor on the To The Journey panel at the 55-Year Mission convention, Las Vegas, August 2021 (Photo: ) On Janewayįans at both panels wanted to know if she’d met any resistance to launching a show with a female captain, but Taylor said it was a non-issue for her: And after many, many, often uncomfortable brutal lunches, Voyager was born.
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And I suspect that part of the thinking was that it would just be a good thing to have a woman on the team, that you’re going to have a female captain, and I am eternally grateful that they thought that and so we started getting together at lunch hours, the only time any of us would have a free hour, ordered in our lunches in Rick’s office and began hashing it out. They knew what they were doing, they could have handled it by themselves. Rick and Michael did not need me to create Voyager.
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Taylor didn’t remember enough about specific episodes to answer some fan questions, although she did express a particular fondness for the Voyager pilot, “Caretaker.” She did, however, remember hashing out the idea for the series itself while she was still working on TNG. Creating Voyager with Rick Berman and Michael Piller In addition to her own panel on the main stage, Taylor also made an unannounced appearance at the panel for the upcoming Voyager documentary To The Journey. We’ve pulled together her comments from the Q&As at both. (Somewhere in the middle, she also co-wrote a few episodes of Deep Space Nine and wrote a couple of Voyager novels as well as the novelization of the TNG episode “Unification.”) After that, she co-created Star Trek: Voyager with Rick Berman and Michael Piller, staying with the show through four seasons before handing over the reins to Brannon Braga, but was still around as a consultant. Taylor started out on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a supervising producer in season 4, was co-executive producer in season 6, then became the showrunner on its final year. She’s retired now and doesn’t do conventions anymore, so it was a treat for fans to be able to ask her questions about her days with Star Trek.
One of the highlights of The 55-Year Mission Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this year was the rare appearance of Star Trek: Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor.
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