Susan Nicoletti Susan Nicoletti was an engineering crew member of the during its time in the Delta Quadrant , and held the rank of lieutenant . Service history . 2371 . In 2371 , Nicoletti was a member of the away team ordered to remove Federation technology from a damaged Kazon - Nistrim raider . ( ) She was working in Main Engineering when photonic lifeform s took over the control of the holodeck and when non - corporeal beings took control of the ship . ( ) Nicoletti was also working in engineering when another malfunctioning bio - neural gel pack caused a power failure , and was part of the repair team that was sent to fix it . ( ) 2372 . She played the oboe as a hobby , and worked with Harry Kim to make a new orchestral program on the holodeck . She had a reputation , at least with Tom Paris , of being cold . Her crew quarters were on deck 4 , although in 2371 when " Voyager " encountered a spatial anomaly Nicoletti ' s quarters were reconfigured to be on deck 8 . ( ) 2374 . In 2374 , she worked with Vorik to get the impulse engine s back online after the warp core had to be ejected . ( ) She was also working in engineering when Tuvok surprised the kiss ing couple Torres and Paris . ( ) Later that year , Nicoletti 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 . ( ) 2375 . While the ship was passing through , Nicoletti was on duty in engineering when suddenly all power went offline . She was also present when the Malon Emck was given a tour through engineering . Later , when the ship passed a spatial vortex , she was working on the bridge manning a side station . ( ) Nicoletti passed Seven of Nine and B ' Elanna Torres in a corridor . Later , she replaced Harry Kim at the bridge ops station while he was working on the construction of the " Delta Flyer " . ( ) She was at the celebration that took place in engineering marking the completion of the Quantum Slipstream Drive . ( ) In 2375 , " Voyager " helped a group of Brenari refugees to pass through Devore Imperium space . When the Devore inspection teams checked the ship during the second inspection , she and Harry Kim were assigned to transporter room 2 while the refugees were held in transporter suspension . ( ) Later that year , she was on duty in engineering while " Voyager " was preparing to enter what they thought was a wormhole , but was in fact a " telepathic pitcher plant " . As Seven of Nine was the only adult crewmember unaffected , she attempted to stop the rest of the crew ; she stun ned Lieutenant Torres . Nicoletti turned around at the sound of the phaser beam , and was stunned as well . ( ) After she was duplicated by the Silver Blood , along with the rest of the crew , she began to break down due to radiation from a new warp core technology . She was one of the first three affected due to her proximity to the warp core . By the time the mimetic duplicate Lieutenant Torres was affected , she and Ensign Ashmore were already lying in sickbay with facial reversions . ( ) She was present on the bridge when Commander Chakotay , while hallucinating , threw punches at Lieutenant Commander Tuvok . ( ) Nicoletti was present in main engineering during the briefing for the mission to repair the damaged Malon export vessel . She also witnessed B ' Elanna Torres ' overreacting behavior when Commander Chakotay told her about his plans . ( ) Near the end of the year , she transported Tuvok and Captain Janeway to a Kadi planet while also receiving one of their representatives , the Abbot . ( ) 2376 . In 2376 , when a group of aliens boarded " Voyager " , she was on duty in engineering . As the aliens were moving at a much faster rate than the ship , she appeared frozen to them . ( ) 2377 . Nicoletti worked on the bridge when Commander Chakotay , under the influence of mental conditioning of the fanatical Bajoran Vedek Teero Anaydis , stunned her with a phaser . ( ) Background information . Susan Nicoletti was played by regular background actress Christine Delgado , one of many actors hired to be in the background over the seven year run of . She received no credit for her appearances . She was named by Michael Piller after a real Susan Nicoletti , a friend of Eric Stillwell . ( " Source : Eric Stillwell " )