Time to dive back into the age-old debate of Voyager's crew complement
The stated number of crew members on Voyager fluctuates throughout the series, as it should. They lose and gain many people over the course of seven years. However, the number is always between 140 and 160 people. The number of named crew members listed on Memory Alpha is something like twice that amount, if not more.
On top of that, a disproportionate number of the names are Human and Western. Not unusual for a list of U.S. Air Force officers from the 21st Century, but for a Starfleet crew in the 24th Century? Unlikely.
And some of the names are just plain impossible. We have commanders and lieutenant commanders listed in the duty rosters, who aren't members of the senior staff. And we have names that keep appearing in various ships and space stations, at the same time! Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Jeri Taylor, etc. They love to hide the names of behind-the-scenes people in those lists as Easter Eggs, but I want an in-universe explanation.
Given all of the damage, repairs and updates Voyager undergoes, it's not a stretch that the duty rosters are just glitchy, and regularly burp up random names that are not real crew members.
I like to think that with the lack of entertainment in the Delta Quadrant, many officers get a kick out of seeing what wild names the computer will generate today. "Where does the computer keep getting this 'Commander Jeri Taylor' from?"
Some specific names might even have become telltale signs that the ship's systems are malfunctioning.
"Uh-oh...uh, Lieutenant? It looks like we've got 'Charlie Quizzlink' joining us again today."
B'Elanna clenches her teeth, and mutters under her breath, "Seven! That damn drone is performing an unauthorized upgrade again, I'll bet!"
That said, some of the names must be real. Ironically, those listed names tend to do a much better job at representing Starfleet's global diversity than the names we hear onscreen, which tend to be very generic and British.
As stated in my other post, the onscreen characters probably have generic Western names so that the studio doens't have to worry about which extra to cast. But for names that only appear in writing, anything goes. And funny enough, with many of these names they didn't even have to try: they tend to be names of behind-the-scenes production staff, who were just naturally a diverse bunch.
Some personal favorites of mine, that I chose to believe are real crew members on Voyager:
Kristine Fernandez
Arlene Fukai
Diane Overdeik
David Orlando
Hindaki Shibunawa
Ikuyo Seuphon
Lisa De Moraes
Bob De La Garza
Jon Djanrelian
Suzi Shimizu
Abraham Rawski
Zayra Cabot
Mary-Ellen Bosche
Pierre Rhan
Evelyn Rameau
Maricella Ramirez
Cosmo Genovese
George Rosa
David Rossi
Henri Scheimer
Wendy Drapanas
Fernando Sepuvelda
India Shigihara (probably an off-worlder, named for her family's home country)
Brad Yacobian
Dawn Velasquez
Elaina Vescio
Jessica Leong
Art Codron (I say it's French a woman, named Artemise)
...I know you can't judge a book by its cover. But these names imply far more intriguing characters than "Crewman Foster" or "Ensign Hickman." This actually looks like a crew of people from around Earth and its colonies, each with their own special place back in the Alpha Quadrant that they miss.
Likely glitch names:
Charlie Quizzlink
John Schoolcraft
Keith Rockefeller
Waverly Smothers
...Yes, that last one is a real name of a real staff member on "Star Trek." Truth can be stranger than fiction. And hey, it's the future. So even Charlie Quizzlink and John Schoolcraft could be real. But there's something surreal about these names, that makes them feel like something a glitching computer would surprise you with.
Definitely glitch names:
Commander Rick Berman
Commander Brannon Braga
Commander Jeri Taylor
Ken Biller (he's listed on both Voyager and the Prometheus, while the two ships are on opposite sides of the galaxy!)
...alternatively, these might not be glitches, but code names for restricted files. Though one would think a code name would be less conspicuous. Maybe some of those generic boring names are the restricted files.
In conclusion...
Memory Alpha lists something like 300 crew members for Voyager, which is too many.
By eliminating names that:
Only appear in writing
Only appear in a dream, hallucination, or the holodeck
Can plausibly be aliases
Can plausibly be misspeaks by characters
Are redundant repeats (Memory Alpha assuming that any discrepancy in a background character means it's a new character)
....brings that number all the way down to about 130 or so. And that's including people who died or left the ship.
Adding the 27-30 written names I really like bumps it back up to about 160. Again, including crew members who didn't end up sticking around.
Making room for those cool written names might involve some fudging of the boring names we hear onscreen, but it's doable if your brain is elastic enough. And my brain is silly putty.
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