Soviet spy satellite

The Soviet spy satellite was a fictional artificial satellite invented by Tom Paris.

In 1996, Paris, along with his fellow USS Voyager crewmate Lieutenant Tuvok, drove around Los Angeles in Rain Robinson's Volkswagen. Paris and Tuvok tried to convince Robinson that they were "secret agents" to ward off suspicion from her that they were from the future. Robinson inquired about an unidentified flying object she had discovered in Earth orbit while working at the Griffith Observatory, which in reality was Voyager. Paris then told her that it was a Soviet spy satellite. Robinson doubted Paris' explanation, since the Soviet Union had broken up in 1991.