A Starfleet admiral who in 2378 gives Voyager its first official assignment from headquarters since the ship was lost, the recovery of the twenty-first century probe Friendship 1.
Admiral Hendricks appears in the seventh-season Voyager episode Friendship One, played by Peter Dennis. By this time the Pathfinder Project has made regular conversations with the Delta Quadrant possible, and he speaks to Captain Janeway over the link from Starfleet Command.
He tells her that Starfleet has plotted the likely course of Friendship 1, an unmanned probe launched from Earth in 2067 to greet other civilisations, and that it should lie close to Voyager's path. Retrieving it would mean a small detour, which he presents as a piece of history worth saving.
Janeway accepts readily, pleased to be carrying out orders again. The search leads to a planet ruined by technology taken from the probe and costs the life of Lieutenant Joseph Carey, an outcome that leaves her questioning the price of exploration.