"I was the bride of Chaotica, the funniest man I have met in my life. When he electrocuted himself I wet my pants. It was outrageous. It was a cartoon. I'm Arachnia. I was playing a 40's movie star. It was outrageous. It was so much fun. I hope the viewers liked it as much as I liked doing it. I loved the double punch, I loved the curve, when there was levity attached to it - heaven!"

Rick Berman, co-creator of [Voyager] and executive producer: "[Bride of Chaotica!] was an example of a holodeck-like show, putting our characters into a very fanciful environment that ended up having an element of danger to it. We decided to go high-camp with it and go black and white with it. It was a ball. We had previously introduced the storyline of Captain Proton and the fun that Tom Paris would have when he would go on the holodeck. Tom Paris loved Americana, he loved cars and early sci-fi. What's more fun than having science fiction characters enjoy science fiction?"

Richard James, production designer: "Captain Proton is in black and white. It's very much a "Flash Gordon"-ish episode. We did actually pull clips of "Flash Gordon". We wanted all the cliches in it, and on a set which we kept black and white as well. I thought it would help the actors feel it too. When it was aired it was processed and in post (post-production) the colour was taken out. Doing the Palace gave us the chance to do a bigger scale. Of course we went for as big a scale as we could achieve. We went pretty high with some of the columns and so forth. It gave us the opportunity to be outlandish. We enjoyed that."

below: pictures of the sets as they really were i.e. in colour

Behind-the-scenes: Michael Westmore's Magic Make-up: 'The Adventures of Capain Proton'