Jimmy Diggs Jimmy Diggs is a freelance writer of several episodes of and one episode of . Diggs is a veteran of the Vietnam War and served aboard one of the ships that helped in the evacuation of Saigon . The storyline for , the first story he pitched to " Star Trek " , was based on his experiences aboard that ship which was actually followed by a school of fish . Diggs also worked as a firefighter , an airline steward , a technician in the Navy , and a security guard and background actor on " Renegade " . Early in his life he had two wishes : either to work as ground controller for NASA or start a career as science fiction writer . In 1993 , NASA didn ' t hire new personnel , and so he began learning how to write . His first contact with the show business was as a security guard on the set of " Renegade " . He was invited by the show ' s producer Nicholas Corea to pitch a story , as " . . . a favor from one Vietnam vet to another ( so Corea later admitted to Diggs ) until the producer discovered that he liked Diggs ' s idea . " ( Rip Rense : " Trekking : Jimmy Diggs " . In : " emmy Magazine " . ) When the show was canceled later , producer Corea referred him to Paramount Pictures and Rick Berman . In the " " , Diggs compares himself to Julian Bashir ' s father Richard , with a variety of jobs in his resumé . It was Ronald D . Moore who told him he had been successful in his pitch for . Diggs initially thought it was one of his friends playing a practical joke on him over the phone , but soon realized it was Ron Moore . Diggs ' daughter has a learning disability , but this did not form the basis of Bashir ' s similar difficulty when he was younger . In the " Companion " , Diggs notes that reading that in the script touched him deeply , and he questioned if he would have made the same decision Richard and Amsha Bashir did . At the request of Jimmy Diggs , one of the characters at " Star Trek : Voyager " was named after Samantha Wildman , the seven - year - old kidney donor for his wife Linette . In 2003 , he and D . C . Fontana pitched an H . G . Wells - based Steampunk series about the HMS " Victory " to the Fox Network . That same year , he wrote a feature length screenplay entitled " " which he intended to be the first CGI - animated " Star Trek " adventure . The crew of the under the command of Captain Sulu had to stop the Kzinti ( also known as the Rakshasa ) , The Rakshasa started an invasion of Federation space . Jimmy repeatedly tried to pitch further stories to " Deep Space Nine " and " Voyager " using his screenplay and additional materials like ship and Rakshasa sketches created by Court Jones to be used for production . Among the material was also a guide , written by Diggs , about using the Rakshasa in " Star Trek " , which included a timeline approved by Larry Niven and D . C . Fontana . Other people who gave him support were Majel Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols . In he wrote an article for in which he describes seven " Star Trek " villains , each representing one of the " Seven Deadly Sins . " He proposed that Kzinti could represent the seventh sin , lust . The article is illustrated with one of the images created by Court Jones . When Manny Coto became executive producer of , he had Josh Finney from Glitchwerk Studios create a CGI model of a 2150s Kzinti starship adhering to the specifications Jimmy Diggs created , with further input by André Bormanis , Manny Coto , Doug Drexler , James Van Over , and Michael Okuda . Furthermore , he commissioned sculptor Clint Burgin to create a 45 cm maquette of a Kzinti and rewrote his 36 - page - long guide that he originally created for " The Lions of the Night " to be used in the new show . His script for season five ' s " Kilkenny Cats " was based on a story by Neal Hallford and Jana Hallford , and would have introduced the Kzinti in the show as another main villain . Diggs was originally announced as contributing a Pakled story to the Pocket Books anthology , " Seven Deadly Sins " , whose premise is apparently based on the aforementioned " Communicator " article . However , the final anthology included a tale by Greg Cox , instead .