American actor, known for North and South, who played Jaffen, the Norvalan worker who becomes Janeway's partner while her memory is suppressed, in Voyager's two-part Workforce.
James Read is an American actor best known as George Hazard in the North and South miniseries. He was an early regular in Remington Steele, played the father of the Halliwell sisters in Charmed, and appeared in the films Beaches and Legally Blonde.
In Voyager he appears in the seventh-season episodes Workforce and Workforce, Part II. Read plays Jaffen, an employee at the power plant on Quarra where most of the crew, their memories altered, have been put to work.
Jaffen and Janeway fall in love and move in together. When the truth comes out he helps the crew recover themselves, and the story ends with Janeway unable to stay with him or to take him along as a member of her crew.