I wonder how Lucy Lawless would have done with role
Well, with the national pride and whatnot, she would have shifted the Penal colony next door to Australia and the planned relationship with paris from the getgo wouldn' have been stopped in the starting blocks at all, since 10 years later, she still looks younger than Tom Paris did back then in Caretaker.
but it would have been so cheesy for those of us who could make a comparrison that Hercules too got his own wannabee starship to pretend he was bad ass with.