Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review Miral Paris, a small-role recurring character from Season 7 of Voyager.
Miral Paris is the daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, and she is born shortly before Voyager finally returned home to Earth. She is delivered while Voyager goes through one of the Borg transwarp conduits, making her one of the few, if not the only, baby born in such an environment. She is named after her maternal grandmother, the sole Klingon grandparent she has.
Miral is also the second baby born on Voyager, the other being Naomi Wildman, who we've previously profiled. While Naomi begins to play a role on the ship as a child because of being born near the beginning of Voyager's journey, Miral is born at the end and so does not play a similar role. However, we do see in the Voyager finale an alternative reality in which it takes Voyager 23 years to get home, Miral grows up on ship and becomes an ensign in Starfleet who assists Admiral Janeway on a mission to the Klingon High Council. This appearance also allows yet another actor to play this role, given the wide variation in ages.
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We see Miral in infant form in the episode Prophecy, where a sect of Klingons consider her to be the kuvah'magh, a chosen one to lead the Empire back to glory. Her 3/4 human genome made her able to cure a rare Klingon disease, so perhaps she is the chosen one in some way.
We also see computer simulations of various versions of a 12-year old Miral in the episode Lineage, as B'Elanna fights with the EMH over whether gene therapy should be used in utero to remove her Klingon features. This episode allows B'Elanna to come to terms with her own troubled childhood, realizing that it made her into the unique and strong person she becomes while on Voyager. Thus, Miral keeps her Klingon genes and ridges.
Infant siblings Carolyn and Matthew Corley played the infant Miral, splitting the duties as is often the case in such TV roles. Lisa LoCicero played the adult version of Miral in Endgame, and she currently plays a long-running character Olivia Falconeri on the daytime soap General Hospital.
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