five decades (barring any other delays they may encounter): shortcuts, in the episodes "Year of Hell", "Night" and "Q2"; technology boosts in "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Dark Frontier", "Timeless" and "Hope and Fear"; a subspace corridor in "Dragon's Teeth"; and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate in "The Gift". Several other trip-shortening attempts are unsuccessful, as seen in the episodes "Eye of the Needle", "Prime Factors", "Future's End", "Course: Oblivion", and "Inside Man". After traveling for seven years, a current (yet returning) shipmate helps instigate a series of complex efforts which shortens the remainder of the journey to a few minutes in the series finale, "Endgame". Cast Geneviève Bujold, originally cast as Janeway, quit a day and a half into shooting the pilot "Caretaker" and was replaced by Kate Mulgrew. Notable guest appearances Cameos Prince Abdullah of Jordan (now king) played an unnamed ensign (science officer) in the episode "Investigations". Musician Tom Morello played Crewman Mitchell, seen when Captain Janeway asks him for directions on Deck 15, in "Good Shepherd". Actors Source material: Brad Dourif played Lon Suder in " Meld" as well as in the two-parter " Basics" Jason Alexander played Kurros, the spokesperson for a group of alien scholars, in "Think Tank". John Aniston played the Quarren Ambassador in the two-part episode "Workforce". Ed Begley Jr. portrayed Henry Starling, an unscrupulous 20th-century industrialist, in "Future's End" parts 1 and 2. Dan Butler played Steth in "Vis à Vis". Robert Curtis Brown portrayed Neezar, the Ledosian ambassador, in "Natural Law". David Clennon played Dr. Crell Moset in the episode "Nothing Human". Henry Darrow appears in the episodes "Tattoo" and "Basics: Part I" as Chakotay's father. Andy Dick plays the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 2 on USS Prometheus in "Message in a Bottle". David Graf appeared as Fred Noonan, Amelia Earhart's navigator in the episode "The 37's". Gary Graham, who portrayed Ambassador Soval on Star Trek: Enterprise, played Ocampan community leader Tanis in the season-two episode "Cold Fire". Gerrit Graham played a member of the Q Continuum called Quinn in "Death Wish" who sought asylum on Voyager. Joel Grey played Caylem, in "Resistance". Lori Hallier played Riley Frazier, one of a group of former Borg drones, in "Unity". Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson portrayed the Pendari Champion with whom Seven of Nine and Tuvok are forced to compete in the episode "Tsunkatse". Alice Krige and Susanna Thompson both played the