(Berman's next series was based on an article he read that revealed more and more Nazis are using time-travel.) Deciding to translate this to Star Trek, he wrote the new series to consist of two crews, one with a stern mother figure, the other with a father figure that used to be cool and hip, but now only has a tattoo to show for the days when he was cool. Inspiration for the show is said to have come after producer Rick Berman read that a growing share of the marriages in the United States involved children from a previous marriage. The show departed from Star Trek's more traditional sci-fi emphasis, allowing women to appear on-screen wearing a surprisingly large amount of clothes, and it focused around the blending of two 'families' - a starfleet crew and a group of Maquis terrorists. Voyager develops special shielding to block this effect after one of their crewman, the Vulcan Tuvok, succumbs to the UPN effect. Star Trek: Voyager was an American sci-fi series that ran on UPN beginning at the network's launch in the time before all actors on the network gradually became black.
~ Q on replacing Voyager's phaser banks with wooden swords