RETROACTIVELY MAKING STAR TREK: VOYAGER GOOD, Part VI
I got out of work early; so, I guess I was wrong when I said no Odyssey today. Sue me.

Dramatis Personae
Lieutenant K'rena Singh, Chief Engineer - I just can't do it; I do not believe in this character. I created K'rena Singh as an improved version of B'Elanna Torres, leaving her a human/Klingon hapa to satisfy the baser tendencies of my Trekkie brethren. This has never sat right with me; K'Ehlyr, Worf's first wife, was the perfect half-human/half-Klingon character. In her current state, K'rena, like B'Elanna, would be just a pale reflection of her. So, she's gone. Fear not, for K'rena Singh will live again. As before, she was chief engineer on Benicio's Maquis raider as well as a Starfleet Academy dropout. The main reason she dropped out of the Academy was her feeling of alienation from her fellow cadets. She felt alienated because of her heritage: K'rena's father was human, a native of Devena, while her mother was a more unusual character, a Romulan. Her mother had been an agent of the Tal Shiar, the Romulan secret police, while secretly working for Starfleet Intelligence. One step ahead of a firing squad, she defected to the Federation, but as a Romulan she was subtlely discriminated against virtually everywhere, and rather overtly discriminated against by most Vulcans. She passed her resentment and bitterness along to her daughter; however, K'rena didn't have the advantage of her mother's inpregnable Romulan ego. Nevertheless, K'rena remains a thoughtful, introspective person, and aboard the Ulysses, after a lifetime of trying, she's finally becoming comfortable in her own skin.
The Gorn - Sooner or later I'll get around to naming him. In the last years of his life, the Caretaker was bringing ships from all over the Milky Way Galaxy to his Array near the Ocampa homeworld; one such ship was a Gorn cruiser. Trying to return home, just like the Ulysses, the ship was hunted and eventually destroyed by the Hirogen. Our heroes helped the sole survivor escape his hunters and he repaid them by flying to coop to join Cole at the first opportunity. The Gorn's not a bad guy, he justs wants to get home, and on the surface Cole's singleminded dedication to that goal can seem more appealing than Captain McKenna's constraining Federation ethics (flexible though they may be).
Agrippa Ramirez - Somehow or other, at the end of "Reign of Khan," the Ulysses has her own eugenic superman. His finely tuned intellect and raging ego cannot be held in check for long, and in the first half of the fourth season, he makes his bid for control of the Ulysses. However, in "The Superior Intellect," he is individually defeated by Captain McKenna, both mentally and physically. Thereafter imprisoned in his quarters, Agrippa is instrumental in repelling the Hirogen hunting parties in "The Killing Game." From time to time, he and the captain will match wits, and he will prove useful to the crew now and again, a recurring character in the Deep Space Nine mold. Most importantly, he is a souvenir of the ultimate road trip. On Voyager, they only picked up hitchhikers twice, Neelix and Kes in the beginning and Seven(th) of Nine when they introduced "the Borg." On Odyssey, our crew are cut off from their family and friends, all alone in deep space. Consequently, they're like little kids, picking up almost everything and invariably putting it in their mouths. Space is an adventure, people, live a little.