An astronaut of the Ares IV mission to Mars in 2032, on the surface with Rose Kumagawa when the orbiting command module and its pilot John Kelly vanish.
Andrei Novakovich appears in the opening of the Voyager episode One Small Step. He is one of the three members of Ares IV, an early Mars mission remembered in the twenty-fourth century as a milestone of human exploration.
Novakovich and Rose Kumagawa are at work on the surface, chatting by radio with John Kelly in orbit, when Kelly reports a strange object closing on the command module. Contact is lost, and the two surface astronauts are left to wait for rescue.
The loss of Ares IV is a story that Chakotay and Paris both grew up on. When Voyager finds the module preserved inside the graviton ellipse, Kelly's final recordings show him thinking of Novakovich and Kumagawa to the end.