What look did you create for Voyager?

For Voyager we started off with a new charact Talaxian, Neelix. They wanted a very nice, calm, vegetarian type of an alien. At that time The Lion King was very popular, and I thought the little boar was really nice and the meerkats. So, I took a combination of the two characters, to create the Talaxian.

Jeri Ryan came in, Seven of Nine, and she was going to be a Borg. Those had already been established, mainly through the movie, First Contact, the new Borgs as opposed to the old Next Generation Borgs - balder and scarier looking. And Jeri rolled right into that and for the several episodes she was Borgified until we de-Borged her and still left her with a few little pieces here and there that would could come and go from operations and things. But she always had something - she always had a reminder that she was a Borg.