Star Trek: Voyager – The Other Janeway

12 May 2009 Rob Buckley US TV 9 Comments

Most people hate Star Trek: Voyager. That’s because it was awful. Thing is, it could have been more awful, because originally Geneviève Bujold played Captain Nicole Janeway instead of Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway in the series itself.

Bujold turned up for work, couldn’t cope with the technobabble, and left. Here’s some of the only footage surviving with her in it. See if you can tell why she had to leave.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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