Manu Intiraymi

Manu Intiraymi is an actor who portrayed the former Borg drone Icheb in eleven episodes of the sixth and seventh seasons of .
In , Intiraymi reprised his role as Icheb for the fan production . The film is directed and starring Tim Russ, was written and produced by Ethan H. Calk and Jack Treviño, and features fellow Trek alumni Walter Koenig, Gary Graham, Robert Picardo, Rico E. Anderson, Courtney Peldon, Clint Carmichael, Richard Herd, Jason Matthew Smith, John Carrigan, Ryan T. Husk, and Tad Atkinson. John Eaves worked as art director on it.
== Personal ==
Intiraymi was born in Santa Cruz, California. His first name, Manu, is Hawaiian meaning "bird". His surname, Intiraymi, is Incan meaning "Festival of (the Incan sun-god) Inti". He identifies as bisexual. 
== Acting ==
Intiraymi started his acting career with featured parts in episodes of (1997, with Richard Herd and Jeremy Roberts), Unhappily Ever After (1997, starring Nikki Cox), (1998, with Paul Collins, Steven Culp, and Bennet Guillory), Smart Guy (1998, with Tahj D. Mowry), The King of Queens (1999), (1999, created by Jonathan Schmock and guest starring Bebe Neuwirth and Mark Colson), and (2001).
His first feature film roles include supporting parts in (1998, with Jenette Goldstein, Richard McGonagle, Greg Grunberg, Alexander Enberg, Brad Dourif, Ivar Brogger, Cyia Batten, Jack Shearer, Len Costanza, John Wilkie, Janet Dey, Rubin Knight, Bruce Dobos, and Andray Johnson), (1999), (2000, with Joe Gieb and Adam Harrington), and the short comedy Eyeball Eddie (2001, with Keno Deary). He was also featured in (2001).
Following his two years on Voyager, Intiraymi appeared in an episode of Las Vegas (2005, starring Nikki Cox and with Nan Martin and Darlena Tejeiro) and appeared in (2002, with George Murdock), the comedy Zah-A Pizza Movie (2009), the short drama Masterpieces (2010), the short comedy Expired (2011, with Mark Chaet and Robert Clendenin), the drama Driving by Braille (2011), (2011, with Jack Donner, William Bebow, Tom Archdeacon, Zach Grenier, Stephen Root, and David Clennon), (2011), and (2012, with Sean McGowan).
In 2012 he portrayed the recurring character Billy in six episodes of where he worked with Barbara Alyn Woods. Further credits include the action film Abstraction (2013), the short horror film Pray with Us (2014), and the drama Benjamin Troubles (2014).
In (2015) his co-stars included Dina Meyer, Olivia d'Abo, Nana Visitor, Linda Park, Michael Dorn, Nichelle Nichols, Jeffrey Combs, Chase Masterson, Julie Warner, Tim Russ, Walter Koenig, Robert Picardo, John Billingsley, Armin Shimerman, Michael Forest, Connor Trinneer, Celeste Yarnall, Barbara Luna, Garrett Wang, Gary Graham, Crystal Allen, Gary Lockwood, Anthony Montgomery, Beverly Washburn, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Vaughn Armstrong, Jack Donner, Menina Fortunato, Sean Kenney, and Kevin Carlson.
Other projects in 2015 include the romance Promises, the short science fiction drama Instant (with Phil Morris), the science fiction film 5th Passenger (with Tim Russ, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman, Ryan T. Husk, Hana Hatae, Rico E. Anderson, Jodi Johnston, and co-producer and makeup effects supervisor Thomas E. Surprenant), the action drama Six Gun Savior (with Tim Russ and Jason Matthew Smith), and the fantasy film The Green Fairy (with Robert Miano).
Intiraymi also appeared in the action film The Dark Zone (2016, with Tim Russ and co-produced by Ryan T. Husk).
In 2024, Manu Intiraymi revealed to hosts Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim on the TV talk show “A Captain’s Log,” that the main cast of actors he portrayed scenes with the most on Star Trek: Voyager were Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, Kate Mulgrew and Ethan Phillips. Intiraymi noted that it was his time to step up and prove he belongs for more episodes when Executive Producer Brannon Braga came to the set to personally tell him he was doing a fine job as confirmation of his portrayal of the recurring role Icheb. 
== Conventions ==
Intiraymi's first Star Trek convention as a panelist was in Bonn, Germany at FedCon 2001, where he was handed a mic and unbeknownst to him at the time expected to speak for two hours about Icheb and his experiences on Star Trek: Voyager to German Trek fans. 
Intiraymi was also present at the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas next to him on stage were Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Jonathan Frakes and Rod Roddenberry (son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. 
After being absent from the Star Trek convention scene for three years, Manu Intiraymi reemerged at the 2024 Aurora Mini-Con Star Trek panel in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado alongside “A Captain’s Log,” TV talk show hosts Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim. Intiraymi revealed that during his time on “Star Trek: Voyager”, he was being told about reprising his role on an upcoming Star Trek academy TV series where Icheb, after returning with Voyager to Earth, would attend Starfleet Academy and stay as an instructor. Intiraymi went on to say 24 years ago there were behind the scenes rumblings, but a contract offer never happened. Eventually, the series was not developed, nor was Harve Bennett's Star Trek: The First Adventure Academy prequel film around 2004, because Star Trek: Enterprise was being produced and they thought that should be the prequel. 
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