Star Trek: Voyager (Series) - TV Tropes. The crew of the U. S. S. Voyager, NCC- 7. Clockwise from top left: Harry Kim, The Doctor, Tuvok, Neelix, B'Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay, and Seven of Nine. ![]() Voyager is trapped in orbit above a strange planet where time passes thousands of times faster than in the surrounding galaxy. As the population of the planet evolves.
Kes is holding the camera. Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew. In the midst of trying to locate him, Voyager was yanked across the galaxy by an alien device called the Array, which was also responsible for abducting Chakotay's ship. During a battle with the Kazon, the local space- faring thugs, Janeway destroyed the device that had abducted them rather than let it be misused. This had the effect of now stranding both crews in the Delta Quadrant, on the other side of the galaxy, seventy- five years' travel time from home. Sep 15, 2015 10:35 PM EDT. Jennifer Lien, who played Kes on Star Trek. Season 1 Episode 1 & 2 (or 1 pilot) Directed by: Winrich Kolbe: Story by: Rick Berman Michael Piller Jeri Taylor. ![]() For the next seven seasons, Voyager looked for a shortcut back to Earth while dodging or battling an assortment of nogoodniks within the Delta region. For the sake of familiarity, they also crossed swords with a pair of Ferengi that had been zapped to the Delta Quadrant back in Next Generation, the Q Continuum, assorted Romulans and Cardassians, a diaspora of Klingons on a pilgrimage of sorts, and even a rogue Starfleet vessel which was also kidnapped by the Caretaker. To make matters worse, the Delta Quadrant happens to be the home of the Borg Collective. VOY ranks as one of the more divisive. Trek series, with fan debate and controversy continuing to this day — usually directed at Captain Janeway, considered to be the most morally ambiguous of the five captains. Season One offered up a promising mish- mash of crewmen with sketchier backgrounds than those of TOS or TNG, with pasts as rebels, convicts, con men, or (later) Borg drones. By Season Two, the crew and their rogues gallery were retooled into something more palatable for family viewing, and the producers had found a winning formula (in keeping with the late- 9. TV boom) in embracing the sillier aspects of Starfleet life. The show had a high turnover of both writers and actors, and tragically—and predictably, in hindsight—fell victim to The Firefly Effect in its second year. At the time, Paramount wanted the show to be the flagship series of its own new broadcast channel, UPN; hence, Executive Meddling occurred almost continually. To an even greater extent than Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Voyager very much represented an Adrenaline Makeover for the Trek franchise, with a bigger emphasis on action. This was aided in large part by the Delta Quadrant being seemingly the most savage of the four Quadrants — nearly every race the Voyager Crew meet is as xenophobic as they are powerful. The series also toyed with improved CGI effects and a couple of two- part telemovies featuring the Borg, some of which were rather epic. See also the Star Trek: Voyager Relaunch for the show's continuation in novel form. The first Star Trek: Elite Force video game takes place in this show, and the actors from the show provide their voices for their counterparts (except Jeri Ryan as Seven- Of- Nine, until an expansion pack including her was released). Elite Force is usually considered to be one of the best Trek computer games ever released, and the level of consistency between the show and the game's content is probably one of the main reasons why. In the game, you're issued bulky phaser rifles, beam over to Borg cubes, and kick ass, not unlike in those VOY episodes where the show was firing on all cylinders. The Show Within a Show. The Adventures of Captain Proton has its own work page. No- nonsense Janeway turns over some rocks and instructs her crew to eat the grubs they find underneath. The 4. 7 Society: The complete series dvd collection contains a total of 4. Absolute Xenophobe: The Starfish Aliens Species 8. Star Fleet has ever encountered. After the hostile Borg invade their home dimension, the genetically superior aliens embark on a crusade across the Milky Way to annihilate all other lifeforms, not just Borg, because they believe that their mere existence might be a threat to their purity. They mercilessly destroy billions of Borg before their invasion is halted by a temporary Borg- Voyager alliance. The following season, this is subverted when they are retconned into having only acted out of self- defense, and they're actually open to diplomacy. Accidental Adultery: Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with Voyager in . It would work a lot better as Star Trek theatrical releases than something like DS9's . The Scully doubts there's anyone on board, but when the Mulder asks why he's on the mission in the first place, he adds that he doubts everything - including his own doubts. A. I. The robot army in . In each case, their main advocate on the ship (usually The Doctor) was forced to put them all down to protect the Quadrant. Zimmerman on DS9, rubbing his forehead at the thought of those silly conspiracy nuts back home. It's a good in- joke if you're familiar with this show. Alien Abduction: How they ended up in the Delta Quadrant in the first place in . Plus there's the Vidiians seeking to steal the crew's organs to replace their own diseased tissue. Everything that happened from his viewpoint, until Tuvok found him, never did. All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The image of Seska and Cullah strutting onto the Bridge as Janeway and her crew are held at gunpoint is a worthy successor to . Alas it gets resolved about as elegantly as BOBW did next season. Alternate Universe: The ship frequently crossed dimensions or timelines, resulting in meetings with their other selves. Usually they weren't that different, except in cases with a Bad Future. Always Chaotic Evil: The Kazon are a race of gang- bangers. Subverted with Species 8. They're introduced as a monolithic, xenophobic, omnicidal race of telepathic aliens, but later revealed to just be acting in self- defense. The Kradin from . It all turns out to be a lie perpetuated by their more human- looking enemies, who were brainwashing third parties to use as shock troops. Always Save the Girl: Janeway often takes great risks to save Seven of Nine. And I Must Scream: In the early episodes, the Doctor couldn't shut off his own program. This annoyed him when people would just leave the room without deactivating him. In one instance, he specifically requests that, should the crew choose to abandon the ship for any reason, they take the time to shut him off before they leave. If they didn't, he'd be stuck in Sickbay until power failed, completely alone. Another Man's Terror: Paris has this forced upon him in . Eventually, he figures he doesn't want to associate his people with anything dirty and . Subverted, as it's revealed to be a simulation run by the natives to brainwash new recruits, and the . He's trapped in a graviton ellipse and he continues to record log entries and collect data right up to the point where all the power on his spacecraft fails and he dies. Chakotay admires him for this. Chakotay: That's dedication. The man's life is about to end, but he won't stop taking readings. Arc Welding: . In an episode where the crew is unwillingly and unknowingly experimented on by a alien species, Janeway's aggression and irrationality is increased significantly. At one point she tells Tuvok to harshly punish several crew members for very minor things. Tuvok asks . That's when Janeway realizes that something is very wrong with her. Note Tuvok knew that would snap her back to reality. The Artifact: Neelix was originally supposed to be Voyager's guide through the Delta Quadrant as well as Kes's love interest. However, he quickly became the ship's cook and comic relief, rarely being of any real use when it came to navigation or preparing Voyager for the dangers of the Delta Quadrant. The trope came into full effect in Season 3 and 4, as Voyager had moved on from the area of space he was familiar with, making him useless as a guide, and Kes's fully powers emerged, forcing her to leave the ship. The show tried to keep him relevant by making him 'the ship's ambassador and . Her de- assimilation from the Borg Collective happens in her debut (double- )episode, and even though she starts to accept her fate of being an individual again as time goes by, she almost always gets called by her old Borg designation for the rest of the series. Artistic License . Hydroponics is the means of growing plants without soil. In the episode . It turns out that they somehow could do it by taking an alien growth hormone. The Ocampans (Kes' race) In Voyager, can only reproduce once, and have one child. No species could evolve such a trait and thrive. EVERY member of the race would to reproduce to have 0 population growth. If any member of the race dies, then the race as a whole has taken a blow it cannot recover from. They also have a life span of nine years which would only exacerbate their rapid depopulation. Artistic License . A major violation is their use of . They were supposedly superior than standard computer circuits but actually left the ship open to more threats, such as the infamous moment when Neelix nearly destroyed the ship while trying to curdle cheese. In addition, apparently the manual overrides for the doors don't work without power, which is the whole point of having a manual override. Artistic License . Apparently, picking one nation and consulting its members on what a respectful and accurate portrayal of their culture would look like would have been too hard. They were actually Dan Browned by a consultant. They recruited someone named Jamake Highwater who claimed to be an expert on Native American culture. However, it turned out he was a con artist whose only knowledge of Native American culture came from movies. The producers didn't find this out until much later sadly. Star Trek: Voyager TV Show: News, Videos, Full Episodes and More. Star Trek: Voyager - Wikipedia. For the Voyager space probe from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, see V'ger. Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The series takes place during the years 2. It follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel. USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant (on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy, 7. Earth) while searching for a renegade Maquis ship. Voyager was produced for seven seasons, from 1. Star Trek TV series with a female captain, Kathryn Janeway (played by Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. Berman served as head executive producer in charge of the overall production for the series during its entire run. He was assisted by a second in command executive producer who generally functioned as the day- to- day showrunner. Four were used throughout the series' run: Michael Piller (EP/showrunner – first and second season), Jeri Taylor (EP – first through fourth seasons, showrunner – third and fourth seasons), Brannon Braga (EP/showrunner – fifth and sixth seasons), and Kenneth Biller (EP/showrunner – seventh season). Star Trek: Voyager aired on UPN and was the network's second- longest running series. The series consists of 1. Some examples of feature length Voyager movies are Dark Frontier (1. Flesh and Blood (1. Endgame (1. 71/1. Production. The studio also planned to start a new television network, and wanted the new series to help it succeed. The development of the seventh Star Trek film, Star Trek Generations, and seeds for the show's backstory, including the development of the Maquis, were placed in several The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. Voyager was shot on the stages The Next Generation had used, and where the Voyager pilot . Costume designer Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager's crew would be the same as those on Deep Space Nine. Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer- generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots. Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for Voyager's opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly episode exteriors were captured with hand- built miniatures of Voyager, its shuttlecraft, and other ships. This changed when Voyager went fully CGI for certain types of shots midway through season three (late 1. Season three's . Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse one year later (season six). In its later seasons, Voyager featured visual effects from Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse. The digital effects were produced at television resolution and some have speculated that it can't be re- released in HD format without re- creating the special effects. Voyager had to make its way from above where the Kazon species is located back to Earth; this journey is a major plot element in the show. Summary. In the pilot episode, . They are searching for a missing ship piloted by a team of Maquis rebels, which Voyager's security officer, the Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, has secretly infiltrated. While in the Badlands, Voyager is enveloped by a powerful energy wave that kills several of its crew, damages the ship, and strands it in the galaxy's Delta Quadrant, more than 7. Earth. The wave was not a natural phenomenon. In fact, it was used by an alien entity known as the Caretaker to pull Voyager into the Delta Quadrant. The Caretaker is responsible for the continued care of the Ocampa, a race of aliens native to the Delta Quadrant, and has been abducting other species from around the galaxy in an effort to find a successor. The Maquis ship was also pulled into the Delta Quadrant, and eventually the two crews reluctantly agree to join forces after the Caretaker space station is destroyed in a pitched space battle with another local alien species, the Kazon. Chakotay, leader of the Maquis group, becomes Voyager's first officer. B'Elanna Torres, a half- human/half- Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer. Tom Paris, whom Janeway released from a Federation prison to help find the Maquis ship, is made Voyager's helm officer. Due to the deaths of the ship's entire medical staff, the Doctor, an emergency medical hologram designed only for short- term use, is employed as the ship's full- time chief medical officer. Delta Quadrant natives Neelix, a Talaxian scavenger, and Kes, a young Ocampa, are welcomed aboard as the ship's chef/morale officer and the doctor's medical assistant, respectively. Due to its great distance from Federation space, the Delta Quadrant is unexplored by Starfleet, and Voyager is truly going where no human has gone before. As they set out on their projected 7. Kazon; the organ- harvesting, disease- ravaged Vidiians; the nomadic hunter race the Hirogen; the fearsome Species 8. Borg, whose home is the Delta Quadrant, so that Voyager has to move through large areas of Borg- controlled space in later seasons. They also encounter perilous natural phenomena, a nebulous area called the Nekrit Expanse (. It is the third Star Trek series to feature Q, an omnipotent alien—and the second on a recurring basis, as Q made only one appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Starfleet Command learns of Voyager's survival when the crew discovers an ancient interstellar communications network, claimed by the Hirogen, into which they can tap. This relay network is later disabled, but due to the efforts of Earth- based Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, Starfleet eventually establishes regular contact in the season- six episode . As the series progresses, Seven begins to regain her humanity with the ongoing help of Captain Janeway, who shows her that emotions, friendship, love, and caring are more important than the sterile . The Doctor also becomes more human- like, due in part to a mobile holo- emitter the crew obtains in the third season which allows the Doctor to leave the confines of sickbay. He discovers his love of music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode . In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube. As he did with Seven of Nine, the Doctor rehumanizes the children; Azan, Rebi, and Mezoti, three of them eventually find a new adoptive home while the fourth, Icheb, chooses to stay aboard Voyager. Life for the Voyager crew evolves during their long journey. Traitors Seska and Michael Jonas are uncovered in the early months (. In the second season, the first child is born aboard the ship to Ensign Samantha Wildman; as she grows up, Naomi Wildman becomes great friends with her godfather, Neelix, and develops an unexpected and close relationship with Seven of Nine. Early in the seventh season, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry after a long courtship, and Torres gives birth to their child, Miral Paris, in the series finale. Late in the seventh season, the crew finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and live once again among his people. Over the course of the series, the Voyager crew finds various ways to reduce their 7. Also, the crew is not able to use other trip- shortening opportunities, as seen in the episodes . A final effort, involving the use of a Borg transwarp conduit, reduces the 7. In addition to depicting the future, Earth's present is also altered in the Star Trek universe. Some episodes of Star Trek fill in parts of real or fictional accounts of Earth history. Voyager was not an exception to this and in the episode . One of Janeway's ancestor's is depicted in the episode while Captain Janeway studies historical records of the same person in attempt to understand the person that inspired her. Some other altered timelines include the reduction of the journey to seven years in the season finale, as well as various alternate timelines exposed in various episodes over the course of the television show's run. There was also a number alternated timelines due to an ability to time travel such as in Timeless (S5. E6). Really, although one timeline is displayed, it is actually one that was altered by the crew in numerous times. One timeline involved the entire crew being killed in season five, with only Chakotay, Harry, and The Doctor surviving; only by altering the past does Voyager continue. Its tele- theater and the flexibility of the science fiction universe created by generations of Star Trek writers and production staff accommodates this and more, with the theatrical devices forming a palette of plot tools. As far as the actual timeline, according to the final episode it was reduced to a seven year journey. Examples of big progress: Remaining distance after seven years of travel - . Voyager successfully recovers Tuvok, who was working as a spy and he is also able to join the crew. However, over the course of the next seven years according to the theatrically exposed timeline over 4. Voyager had a distinct narrative of relationships, with even the normally reserved captain giving into implied holo- intercourse. Episodes cover everything from marriage proposals, pregnancies, and the struggle of children dealing with various parental issues including failed marriages. For example some dialogue from ? PARIS: Well, you've got that tough Klingon exterior. And er, I didn't think you liked the mushy stuff. TORRES: Do I look that tough right now? PARIS: Does that mean you're in the mood for some mushy stuff? TORRES: Maybe. PARIS: Exactly what kind of mush are we talking about? TORRES: You tell me. PARIS: Well, there's, um, kissy stuff. Main cast. Actor. Character. Position. Affiliation. Appearances. Character's species. Rank. Kate Mulgrew. Kathryn Janeway. Commanding officer. Starfleet. Seasons 1–7. Human* Captain* Admiral (finale)Captain Janeway took command of the Intrepid- class USS Voyager in 2. While there, the Maquis ship and Voyager are transported against their will into the Delta Quadrant, 7.
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