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Was there an episode that explained the death, loss or dismemberment of Lt. Carrey, the second in command in engineering?
He was in the Utopia Planitia scenes in Relativity, but Seven said "Unlikely" when he said 'see you around' suggesting that Seven had never met him. Other than that he seems to have dropped out of sight totally.
Two notes about Carrey too: 1. He served aboard the Ent D in the first season of TNG. I don't know which ep, but I'd swear that was him at the Tactical station. Couldn't make out the rank.
2. Isn't Carrey married with kids? I could have sworn he was flirting with Seven in Relativity.
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Well, the "unlikely" bit might have been because she knew Carrey was assuming that he would see her around the ship in the near future. Which he wouldn't, since she would be leaving as soon as she found the bomb.
As for flirting... Just because he's married w/ kids doesn't mean he wouldn't flirt. For all we know, the guy might have signed on to a starship to get away from his family because he hates them, or something. :-)
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Well, besides being a nice fella (which he was) he was the assistant chief engineer! I guess the rule is that there can be only one recurring extra per department. Vorik seems to have taken his place although we haven't seen him for a while either. The same can be said for the Tactical officer that always replaced Tuvok early on in the series. I believe he was even left in command during Caretaker. It was great to see familiar faces every week and it really gave a sense of continuity beyond the senior staff. Sadly, that trend quickly went the way of the dinosaur...
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I would surmise that all of them are still there on the ship even though we may not have seen them for awhile. There is no evidence that something happened to them like their deaths.
And it was Lt. Rollins...Rawlins...something like that that took over Tuvok's station in the 1st season. And yes, he did temporarily take command of Voyager in Caretaker. Chakotay wasn't XO yet, Lt. Cmdr. Cavot had died. Lt. Stahdi had died. The CMO and nurse had died. Paris was not even an official member of the crew yet. Kim had no command experience. The Doc is stuck in sickbay. Torres wasn't Chief Engineer yet. Lt. Carrey was too busy in Engineering. Tuvok is with Janeway. That only left Rollins left.
And ya know what? Lt. Carrey reminds me of Chief O'Brien too much. Both are engineers, both have the same hair style and color, they look like each other, are family men, are Starfleet officers, and are Irish. And both had been tactical officer before...assuming it was Carrey on TNG.
Okay that's it.
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Rollins may have been eliminated in a dark corner of the lower decks by a jealous Harry Kim. After all, Rollins had only Ensign's pips in "Caretaker" yet became a Lieutenant in his later appearance(s?)...
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Speaking of missing crew members, where are the ones from the Equinox?
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I wish voyager had the same amount of recurring support actors just like DS9. However its probably hard to get them back for just a couple of episodes each year. I won't mind seeing vorik and carey a lot more but it is very unlikely. Its a pity we don't see gillmore and lesley from the equinox either.
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It's odd that in DS9, the busy space station, we always see the same 30 faces of minor characters and extras, while the small starship Voyager alone in the Delta Quadrant gets new crew members every week.
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I guess it took a while for the DS9 staff to realize how horridly empty their big station looked with just the TNG-standard number of extras. They then hired many more, and perhaps even did some sort of semi-permanent arrangement with some to cut costs. It must have been really expensive compared with TNG, so for Voyager, they try to keep the "extra expenses" down.
Perhaps they can't hire semi-permanent extras when the overall number of extras is low and the few recurring ones would become too prominent or something - perhaps they need to be paid more if they aquire a character name? Or perhaps a semi-permanent extra is simply more expensive than a one-off? Difficult to tell.
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Actally, I think the only difference in cost for extras is determined by whether or not they speak. Which is why you see alot of people nodding in agreement to instructions instead of saying "Yes sir."
I don't think getting a name has anythign to do with it. Ayala (I think) got a name and we saw him standing there in a towel in "Twisted", but he never said anything!!!!
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