Many Star Trek actors and production staff have credited McCluggage with being a strong supporter of the franchise during his time at Paramount. [1] During production of "Caretaker" , McCluggage voiced concerns to Rick Berman about leaving open the possibility of Voyager returning from the Delta Quadrant, should the need arise. This culminated in the plot point about the Caretaker having had a partner who had left him. Berman remembered, "Frankly we made a concession to finally finish the sales job... we put the one-armed man out there – which is the other entity that we met in the pilot." The existence of the missing Caretaker's partner was conceived as a viable "out," meant as potentially a convenient method of returning USS Voyager's crew home, if viewer response indicated the series ha