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Holocharacters

 

This page provides information about minor holocharacters including those not seen on tv:
DANNY  MOSSIE DONEGAN (AND HIS TALKING PIG)  DR GILROY  RAY EWAN  BIDDY RAMSAY  WIDOW MOORE  TIMOTHY RYAN  MARY MULCHAEY  COLBY  OLD PATSY  Page 2: MISCELLANEOUS  Page 3: MISCELLANEOUS continued

 

DANNY

Danny is a young boy in the Fair Haven holoprogram. He is playing by rolling a hoop along the street when Michael Sullivan calls him over and sends him to fetch Doc Fitzgerald to St Mary's Church so that Sullivan can talk to him about his strange experience in the Other World (actually Voyager's holographic research laboratory).


Sullivan gives Danny an urgent errand

Danny hurries to fetch Doc Fitzgerald

 

MOSSIE DONEGAN

Owner of a talking pig. Neither Donegan nor his talking pig are seen on tv. He brings his talking pig to the rings tournament organised by Neelix at Sullivan's pub.

Neelix is unaware of the attraction between Janeway and Sullivan. Hoping to interest her into changing her mind about not attending the rings tournament he has arranged for that evening, Neelix tells her: "The Doctor's going to sing something called 'Danny Boy', and Mossie Donegan's promised to bring his talking pig!"
audio clip
Janeway: "Well, let's just say I'd rather stick to reality right now."
Neelix: "1900 hours, if you change your mind."
Janeway: "Thank you."

Later that year, in [Spirit Folk], Janeway mentions the talking pig in a conversation with Michael Sullivan.



Sullivan: What have you been doing with yourself?"
Janeway: "Nothing terribly exciting. Just helping my aunt and uncle out on the farm. They're not as spry as they used to be, but they've got a goat that could argue Mossie Donegan's talking pig under the table."
Sullivan: "You'll have to bring it into the bar the next time you're up. We'll arrange a debate."
Janeway: "I'll see that I do.

 

DR GILROY

In [Fair Haven], Sullivan mentions that Dr Gilroy has a library of books. At that point, Sullivan's intellectual character has not been upgraded by Janeway, and he says that he will ask Dr Gilroy if he can borrow a book or two, after Janeway shows up his ignorance of authors such as Jonathan Swift.

Janeway: "Flattery is the food of fools."
Sullivan: "Another pearl of wisdom from your auntie."
Janeway: "No. Jonathan Swift."
Sullivan: "Swift? Never heard of him."
Janeway is surprised. "He was an author."
Sullivan: "I was never one for reading."
Janeway: "That's too bad. Some of the greatest authors in the world are Irish."
Sullivan: "Well, they say that Dr Gilroy has a library of books and, well, next time I see him I'll ask him if I can borrow one or two."

(Another doctor in Fair Haven, and who is seen on tv, is Doc Fitzgerald.)

Later, Janeway enters Voyager's holographic research laboratory, and changes aspects of Sullivan's holoprogram. Changes include giving him the education of a student at Trinity College. This results in Sullivan becoming quite widely read, and interested in Irish poetry such as the works of Jane Eldon and Sean Gogarty.

 

RAY EWAN

He is not seen on tv. In [Fair Haven], he was engaged to Maggie O'Halloran; he is not mentioned by name in that episode. In [Spirit Folk], while Kim and Maggie are on a romantic moonlit stroll along Fair Haven's cobbled main street after chatting together in the pub, he asks about Ray Ewan and she tells Kim that she is no longer engaged, which thus leaves her free to pursue a romance with Kim.


Kim: "I thought you were promised to Ray Ewan?"
Maggie: "Not any more."

 

BIDDY RAMSAY

She is not seen on tv. According to Seamus, Biddy Ramsay knew how to resist faery magic, and gave him her reference book 'Faerie Magick' and silver spoon (for hypnosis purposes) before she died.


anti-faery weapons gathered together by Seamus include rifles, (ash berries, red twine to make nets - not in this picture), and Biddy Ramsay's book


the cover of the book can be seen in this picture of Sullivan holding it

After the townsfolk have captured the pair, taken them into the church and bound them, Seamus calls out an incantation from Biddy Ramsay's book calls out an incantation, first in Latin: "Ex labis caelestium sanctorum super ad aures atrorum larvarum mentientium!" and then a translation: "From the lips of the heavenly saints above, to the ears of the dark spirits, may your spectral forms be cast back to the Other World!" However, none of the anti-faery measures seem to work when Seamus tries to apply them to Tom Paris and Harry Kim. These measures include red twine to make nets to catch them in, as red twine is believed to prevent faery folk changing their form (the townsfolk capture Kim and Paris by sheer weight of numbers, rather than by using the nets), and ash berries to prevent faery folk using their powers against you.

Sullivan takes the mobile emitter from Milo and looks at it more closely. "This is no charm. It's some kind of machine."
Milo: "What does it matter? They won't be telling us the truth about any of it."
Seamus, consulting Biddy Ramsay's book: "Oh they'll tell us the truth alright. There's more than way to cut the wings off a pixie. We'll induce a trance." He asks Milo for and is handed Biddy Ramsay's silver spoon.

But the silver spoon seems to work, though only at first, when Seamus succeeds in hypnotising the Doctor but only because, unbeknownst to him or the other Fair Haven holographic inhabitants, the Doctor's matrix has become integrated with that of Fair Haven's which makes him vulnerable.

The Doctor falls into a trance.
Seamus to the Doctor: "Tell us the words. How do we banish the spirit folk to the other world?"
The Doctor speaks in a trance: "There is no other world, only Voyager."
Milo: "Voyager?"
Doctor: "Federation starship, Intrepid class, registry number NCC-74656."
audio clip
Sullivan: "You're from some sort of vessel?"
The Doctor acknowledges: "Mm-hm."
Seamus: "He's talking gibberish."
Sullivan: "Maybe he's not." To Paris: "This ship of yours, is that where you took me?"
Seamus is consulting the 'Faerie Magyk' book. "Look here: it says if you can get a spirit to reveal his true name you'll render yourself impervious to his charms." None of the Fair Haven folk of course realise that the Doctor has no name.
Milo nods. He turns to the Doctor and demands: "What is your true name?"
Doctor: "I haven't decided on one yet."
Seamus realises that the book is useless and slams it shut. He does not use it again.

 

WIDOW MOORE

She is not seen on tv. In [Fair Haven], according to Seamus, although Timothy Ryan died from the croup, some say the widow Moore gave him "the Evil Eye" i.e. he died from being cursed by her.


Seamus tells Paris about Widow Moore and Timothy Ryan

 

TIMOTHY RYAN

He is not seen on tv. He was known for his trout fishing. He died from the croup, although Seamus tells Tom Paris that some blame his death on the Widow Moore for giving him a fatal curse. See picture above.

 

MARY (MARY MULCHAEY)

Mary is not seen on tv. She is the daughter of Edith Mulchaey. In Sullivan's pub, Edith tells a number of the Fair Haven inhabitants: "I was up at Ballahick Farm with Mary. She was playing near the well. Somehow she lost her footing and fell in. I was so frightened I didn't know what to do. So I rang to the Colby's to get some help. But when we returned, there was Mary in the meadow, talking with Katie O'Clare. There wasn't a scratch on her! Katie said I must've been mistaken when I saw her fall. It was no mistake." audio clip


Edith (on the right) tells her tale

When Sullivan brings Katie O'Clare (Janeway) with him back from visiting USS Voyager, he addresses the townsfolk, and during his address, he refers to Mary as being Edith's daughter.

 

COLBY

Inhabitants of Fair Haven, not seen on tv. Their house or farm is where Edith Mulchaey says she went to in order to obtain help after Mary fell into the well at Ballahick Farm. (It is likely that there is more than one Colby, possibly Mr and Mrs, as otherwise Edith would probably have said "So I ran to Colby's" not "the Colby's".) See above for a picture of Edith telling the story which includes mention of the Colby's.

 

OLD PATSY

Old Patsy is not seen on tv. While suggesting that Fair Haven has been infiltrated by faery folk (Paris, Kim, Katie O'Clare etc.) in the discussion at Sullivan's following his witnessing Paris "magically" repairing a damaged vehicle wheel, Seamus dramatically refers to Kilmanin in 1846. He says: "Old Patsy down at County Meath spoke of a band of spirit folk who came to Kilmanin in '46." He goes on to relate the tale, no doubt told by Old Patsy and possibly embellished by Seamus as he has admitted, on Sullivan's prompting, that he sometimes enlivens a tale. audio clip The tale is that in a town not much different from Fair Haven, mysterious things happened after a group of strangers arrived, and then finally in winter the entire town vanished, never to be seen again.



Seamus and Milo relish telling Old Patsy's tale audio clip

 

Episode Guides:
[FAIR HAVEN]
[SPIRIT FOLK]