Character Insight No. 207: Joseph Carey

Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we profile Lieutenant Joseph Carey, an engineer who is a recurring character on Voyager.

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Joe Carey is an assistant chief engineer on board Voyager during the 7-year stranding of that ship in the Delta Quadrant. He becomes chief engineer briefly when his boss is killed in the events of the pilot Caretaker, but he ends up serving under the recently-added Maquis crew member B'Elanna Torres after a short stint with him in charge thereafter. Her engineering prowess forced him to become a staff member rather than the boss once again.

His most notable appearances, and most of them overall, come in this first season of the show. He ends up part of the conspiracy to trade Federation literature for a folded-space transporter technology in the episode Prime Factors, and he is falsely accused and framed by Seska for delivering Starfleet technology to the original Voyager antagonist the Kazon in the episode State of Flux.

QUOTE (upon Torres being named chief engineer in Parallax)
Torres: I hope I can depend on you.
Carey: I can assure you. You'll never get less than my best.

His appearances then become mostly those in alternate timelines, to reflect his time when he was on screen near the beginning of Voyager's journey. He does re-appear near the end of the show, and he is killed during a hostage situation in the episode Friendship One. We learn in this episode that although he does not have the engineering prowess of Torres, he can build a mean ship in a bottle model, which he was almost finished with over the 7 year journey. Hey, everybody needs hobbies.

Joseph Carey is played by Josh Clark. He appeared as an unnamed tactical officer on one TNG episode a few years before his stint on Voyager. Clark remains active today in acting with tons of TV roles on well known shows, including an upcoming role as a Sheriff on Westworld, the HBO series.

Character Insight No. 206: Commander Williams

Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we profile Commander Williams, a recurring character on Enterprise who works with Admiral Maxwell Forrest.

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Commander Marcus Williams shows up once per season during the run of the Enterprise show, with the first of these being in the pilot Broken Bow. Williams agrees with Captain Archer about objecting to the Vulcans subverting Admiral Forrest and Starfleet from making their own independent decisions regarding a Klingon that crash landed on Earth.

Williams also takes the same side as Forrest and Archer when Vulcan Ambassador Soval accuses Archer of disobeying orders and kidnapping Subcommander T'Pol. More than anything, he is a strong advocate for Starfleet and the men on the leading edge like Captain Archer.

QUOTE
Admiral Leonard: He's a Kling-ot.
Tos: A Kling-on.
Archer: Where'd he come from?
Commander Williams: Oklahoma.

Williams is next seen placing a bet with an archaeologist named Drake as to whether a crashed spaceship exists in the Arctic Circle, with the stakes being a bottle of scotch. Drake finds the debris field but his team ends up assimilated by the alien survivors. Williams and Admiral Forrest end up sending Captain Archer on a pursuit of Drake's vessel, which had been taken over by the aforementioned aliens. On the bright side, Williams got to keep his scotch.

Williams was named after the original series actor William Shatner. The novel that confirms his first name Marcus also implies that his daughter has a romantic relationship with a Samuel Kirk, who happens to be the great-great grandfather of James T. Kirk. Thus, this character is the ancestor of the character whose actor Williams is named after, in a weird twist of fiction fate.

Commander Williams is played by Jim Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick appeared in small roles in movies like Armageddon and in many popular soap operas like All My Children. He continues to act today with upcoming movies called Soulmates and The Deposition.

Character Insight No. 205: Vedek Bareil Antos

Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we profile Bareil ("buh-RILE") Antos, a Bajoran spiritual leader who recurs in multiple episodes of Deep Space Nine.

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Bareil is a prominent figure in the religious community following the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor. Indeed, his fame and popularity was sufficient to make him the leading candidate to take over as kai after Opaka. But his life took a different turn.

In his early life, Bareil grew up under the harsh Cardassian rule like all other Bajorans. He follows the path of a monk in our own society, acting as a gardener in tune with nature at a monastery before devoting his life to the Prophets and becoming the Vedek he serves as during his appearances on DS9.

In his first two appearances, Bareil shows up on DS9 to act a peace mediator following a school bombing and survives an assassination attempt by his primary rival for the role of Kai, Vedek Winn, and then he exposes a plot to overthrow the Bajoran government with the help of Major Kira and Jadzia Dax. He saves Kira's life in this latter mission, clearly becoming a close friend of the DS9 crew as well as the runaway favorite to win the role of Kai. He also becomes romantically involved with Kira, a romance that lasted for the next season or so of the show.

INSERT QUOTE
Bareil - "The Prophets teach us patience"
Sisko - "It appears they also teach you politics."
From the episode In the Hands of the Prophets

However, the show runners realized that having the Kai be so friendly with Deep Space 9 would limit the storytelling that could effectively happen, and as such, another story originally written about a new Bajoran character was reassigned to Bareil in the episode The Collaborator. Bareil is falsely accused of collaborating with the Cardassians to kill some Bajorans, but this was actually a decision by prior Kai Opaka to save many more Bajoran lives. To protect her memory and honor, Bareil takes the blame and thus drops out of the election, leading to Kai Winn, a fun and deep future antagonist to the DS9 crew.

Despite being a rival to Winn, he becomes the new Kai's close adviser and helped her negotiate the Bajoran-Cardassian peace treaty. Near the end of this five month process, he is injured in a plasma explosion and his treatment plans were altered to keep him awake and useful as an adviser in the final steps of treaty negotiation. This leads to irreversible brain damage, and he passes away. We only ever see Bareil again in a mirror image form in the season 6 episode Resurrection, thereby bringing back an old character in a different way much like Sela, who we profiled last week.

Bareil was played by Philip Anglim, and this was his final regular acting role. He also showed up in some obscure 80s movies like The Elephant Man and Haunted Summer. He currently maintains a cattle farm, revisiting his original passion for veterinary sciences.