The Star Trek franchise has welcomed several notable guest stars over the years, though there was one in Voyager that was so unexpected it narrowly missed my list of WTF moments from the Kate Mulgrew-led series. Comedian Sarah Silverman had a fairly sizable role in the two-part episode "Future's End," and while we knew there was a scripted kiss, the star reported decades later she shared a real-life kiss with an unexpected co-star.
Silverman played an astronomer named Rain Robinson in the episode, and she teamed up with Tim Russ' Tuvok and Robert Duncan McNeill's Tom Paris when the Voyager crew inadvertently found themselves back in time on Earth in 1996. The actress recently recalled the experience during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, and she talked about filming her kiss with McNeill, and a real-life kiss she shared with a previously unrevealed co-star:
