Kashyk
Kashyk was a Devore inspector and a member of the Devore Imperium in the 2370s. The Devore considered telepaths a danger to the Imperium because of their ability to read minds. Kashyk considered all strangers and vessels in Devore space to be suspect and subject to search. The Devore were looking for Brenari in particular.
Voyager had rescued a group of telepaths and was hiding them from the Devore. Kashyk was captain of the Devore starship that was inspecting Voyager at regular intervals. Kashyk inspected Voyager so many times that he became familiar with the crew and Voyager's musical database, and made himself at home in Captain Janeway's ready room. Tchaikovsky was his favorite Earth composer and he played his Symphony Number Four over the ship-wide comm.
In a plan to uncover telepaths on the Federation vessel, Kashyk asked for asylum on Voyager. Kashyk aided Janeway in avoiding Devore detection, and gave her information on the Devore systems. He tried to gain Janeway's trust by becoming romantically involved with her and pretending to be her ally. He was able to determine that Voyager was smuggling telepaths and Janeway was going to transport them through a wormhole to escape the Devore. He suggested that Janeway apply a fractal coefficient to Torat's sensor data, among other standard algorithms, to find the spatial anomaly, and understood the Captain's subspace harmonics analysis. When he found out its precise position, he announced to Janeway that he doubled-crossed her and fired on the wormhole; however, Janeway had never trusted him, and misled him into firing on a false wormhole. Janeway was able to transport the telepaths through the real wormhole. Kashyk, not wanting the failure on his record, and still harboring feelings for Janeway, failed to report the incident and allowed Voyager to resume its course. (VOY: "Counterpoint")
- Kashyk was played by Mark Harelik. His name is believed to be a nod to the Star Wars planet Kashyyyk, the homeworld of the Wookiees.