American comedian and actor (born 1970) who played Rain Robinson, the 1996 Los Angeles astronomer who detects Voyager in orbit, in the two-part Voyager story Future's End.
Sarah Silverman is an American comedian, actor and writer, known for her stand-up, The Sarah Silverman Program and voice work in Wreck-It Ralph.
Early in her screen career she guest starred in the third-season Voyager two-part story Future's End as Rain Robinson, a young astronomer at the Griffith Observatory whose work is funded by the industrialist Henry Starling. When she picks up Voyager's warp signature, Starling tries to have her killed.
Rain falls in with Tom Paris and Tuvok, helps them track Starling and strikes up a flirtation with Paris before the crew return to the twenty-fourth century.