Did you get any say in the direction of your character?

You know what, the first time I actually spoke with the producer writers, was the end of season two. My complaint to them was that everybody else had a stunt double, meaning they all had action scenes, and I had never filmed an action scene.

My other request was I said I'd like to have some type of love storyline. I said, "More action and women."

That was the end of season two so Brannon Braga wrote Non Sequitur, where he threw everything into one episode. So I came back to him and said, "You know, you could have spread it throughout the year, you didn't have to give me everything in one fell swoop."

So that's when I started talking to them and I realised that sometimes my suggestions would be taken by the producer/writers. Except for one.

The one that I always was suggesting [that] never got put in was more humour, because that's who I really am, I'm much more about making people laugh. They were much more about allowing only the Doctor and Nelix to make people laugh which I think is wrong. I think really the human characters should be more full of emotion and less militaristic.