Ashmore Ensign Ashmore served aboard the while the ship was in the Delta Quadrant . He worked in engineering under Chief engineer B ' Elanna Torres . Service history . 2371 . Ashmore was a fan of macaroni and cheese and in 2371 he asked Neelix to make it for him . When the Talaxian tried to make the cheese he accidentally infected some of the ship ' s bio - neural gel pack s with the bacteria he cultivated . When Tuvok trained four Maquis cadet s with a run through the corridor s , they passed Ashmore . ( ) 2372 . In 2372 , Kes under Bothan influence was encountered by a vision of Neelix who claimed that Ashmore thought he was a Kazon and attacked him with a carving knife . ( ) 2373 . In 2373 , during a confrontation with the " Nerada " , B ' Elanna Torres ordered Ashmore to open up the emergency vent in plasma conduit G6 to reduce the pressure building there , while she attempted to reroute the plasma flow . ( ) " In an alternate timeline , he was in the mess hall when Neelix brought a cake to celebrate the ninth birthday of Kes . " ( ) 2374 . Ashmore visited the mess hall when a group of alien scientist s , the Srivani , were on board the " Voyager " and conducted medical experiment s on the crew . Seven of Nine , who was able to see the aliens through her modified ocular implant , witnessed Ashmore and other crewmembers in the mess hall being lab rat s to the Srivani . Ashmore also passed Seven of Nine in a corridor while the former Borg drone witnessed the Srivani and was present in the mess hall when Neelix prepared scrambled eggs and broke down due to the experiments . ( ) He was among the crewmembers in the mess hall who received a letter from home that had been transmitted from the Alpha Quadrant over the Hirogen communications network . ( ) Ashmore was stationed in main engineering and armed with a phaser rifle when a member of Species 8472 attacked the engineering crew . He was wounded during the attack and treated in sickbay . ( ) Later that year , he assisted Torres in holding Seven of Nine back after she had attacked Kovin . ( ) Ashmore was working in engineering when Seven of Nine , B ' Elanna Torres and Tom Paris gathered to receive instructions from Chakotay to protect the warp core of radiation . ( ) 2375 . In 2375 he was working in engineering when the ship lost its power and was drifting in . Later he worked on a console while B ' Elanna Torres gave the Malon Emck a tour through engineering . ( ) He appeared briefly , working in engineering , when Harry Kim gave an inventory for take to Torres . ( ) He accompanied another crewmember on the holodeck when The Doctor did a photo exhibition . ( ) Also in 2375 , a biomimetic copy of Ashmore was working in engineering aboard the Silver Blood copy of the " Voyager " . This copy was later among the patient s in sickbay treated by The Doctor . ( ) Ashmore managed a force field in engineering when the crew rescued a Series 5 long - range tactical armor unit that had malfunctioned . ( ) 2376 . Ashmore was present , when several members of unknown species avoided Seven of Nine in a corridor . ( ) In 2376 , Ashmore was noticeably traumatized by an alien beacon , which was causing the crew to have horrific flashbacks of a slaughter of Nakan colonists . ( ) Ashmore was one of the Starfleet officers who accompanied Captain Janeway on her shore leave in 2377 . He manned a station aboard the " Delta Flyer " when Janeway was informed by Commander Chakotay , that Seven of Nine and Tuvok were kidnapped by Penk . ( ) 2377 . Ashmore passed Harry Kim and Tom Paris in a corridor shortly before the hologram of Reginald Barclay was activated aboard the " Voyager " . ( ) 2378 . He attended the celebration for the First Contact Day in the mess hall aboard the " Voyager " and later stood in the hallway to bid farewell to Neelix who left the ship . ( ) Ashmore was on duty on the bridge when " Voyager " returned to Earth in 2378 . ( ) Apocrypha . Background information . The authors of the and StarTrek . com ' , ' believed there were two Ashmores assigned to the " Voyager " . In the " Star Trek Encyclopedia " , one was identified as a female , played by Christine Delgado , and the other as a male , played by an unnamed actor . Ensign Ashmore was played by regular " Star Trek " background actor and stand - in David Keith Anderson . He was first mentioned in " Learning Curve " , and not seen until " Year of Hell " . He was first credited in Memorial .