Ethan Phillips (Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager, Girls, Benson) Hamilton Comic Con 2019 Q&A Panel

Ethan Phillips -- best known to Star Trek fans for playing the part of Talaxian 'Neelix' through all seven seasons of "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001), portraying Ferengi characters on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1990) and "Star Trek: Enterprise" (2002), and for his uncredited cameo as a holographic mâitre d' in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact" -- discusses his career, shares behind-the-scenes stories and answers fan questions at his 2019 Hamilton Comic Con Q&A panel.

Ethan Phillips (born February 8th, 1955) began his acting career on stage in both Broadway and off-Broadway shows including "My Favorite Year" at Lincoln Center, "Measure for Measure" for the NYSF, "Lips Together Teeth Apart" for Manhattan Theatre Club, and "Modigliani" at the Astor Place, and in new works for Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Hudson Guild Theatre, the American Jewish Theatre and many others. During his comprehensive acting career, he also played leading roles for many of the major regional theaters around the country such as San Diego Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, Baltimore Center Stage, the Geffen in Los Angeles, Pasadena Playhouse, the McCarter Theatre, and the Boston Shakespeare Company. He spent ten summers at the Sundance Theatre Lab and is a co-founder of First Stage in Los Angeles, which has been developing new plays for over twenty years. Phillips has been on several popular TV shows and movies besides Star Trek, including five seasons on "Benson" (1979). He has been a guest star on scores of TV shows, has appeared in many feature films and award winning shorts, and has an active voice-over career. Phillips is also a playwright and an author; his original play "Penguin Blues" has been produced more than 150 times throughout USA and Canada.

"Star Trek: Voyager" is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor. It originally aired between January 16th, 1995 and May 23rd, 2001 on UPN, lasting for 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it served as the fourth sequel to "Star Trek: The Original Series." Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager as it attempts to return home after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. Paramount Pictures commissioned the series following the termination of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" to accompany their ongoing "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." They wanted it to help launch their new network, UPN. Berman, Piller and Taylor devised the series to chronologically overlap with "Deep Space Nine" and to continue themes—namely the complex relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as the Maquis—which had been introduced in "The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine." Voyager was the first Star Trek series to include CGI technology for space scenes and the first to feature a female captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. Being set in a different part of the galaxy to preceding Star Trek shows, Voyager gave the series' writers space to introduce new alien species as recurring characters, namely the Kazon, Vidiians, Hirogen and Species 8472. During the later seasons, the Borg—a species created for "The Next Generation"—were introduced as the main antagonists. During Voyager's run, various episode novelisations and tie-in video games were produced; after the show ended, various novels continued the crew's adventures.

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