{"id":10439,"date":"2010-10-12T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2010-10-12T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:06:57","slug":"mcneill-voyager-was-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/mcneill-voyager-was-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"McNeill: Voyager Was Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although being an actor is hard work, working on Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> was fun for Robert Duncan McNeill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason that the Voyager<\/em> set was fun for McNeill was the cast. “One thing that was never crystal clear from our episodes is all the fun we had as a cast between the shots,” said McNeill. “We really got along as any cast I’ve ever seen.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>McNeill is on good terms with the cast to this day, and some of them meet every now and then. “I’m still friends with a lot of the people,” he said. “All the boys from Voyager<\/em>, we have a regular steak dinner. We had our most recent one a couple of months ago. We make each other laugh. That’s the biggest thing I remember.”<\/p>\n

Playing a long-term character like Tom Paris was satisfying for McNeill. “That character started with a real chip on his shoulder and he was the rebel,” said McNeill. “One thing I remember saying early on was that we’ve got to find the surprises in the character, and I think one of them turned out to be his sense of humor. They really were able to write a nice, lighthearted sensibility to this guy who\u2019d started as such a rebellious character.”<\/p>\n

His character changed as time went on, which was also a good thing for McNeill. “Also, early on, they had this concept that he was a womanizer and was always falling in love with the alien of the week,” said McNeill. “I remember having a conversation and saying, ‘It’d be really nice to see him get into a relationship.’ They toyed with that for a while with Kes (Jennifer Lien<\/strong>), and after she left, I think they found the right match with Tom and B’Elanna and with Roxann Dawson<\/strong> and I. We got to explore a real, challenging long-term relationship, which I think was great. So the writers gave the character a wonderful transformation. He really changed and grew over the seven years \u2013 and he\u2019s probably a real family guy now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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