Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
There are time whenStar Trek : Voyagerdidn’t really attain the so - call " reset button " , as the series was prone to doing at the end of most of its standalone sequence . Over the course of its seven - year journeying through the Delta Quadrant , Voyagerexcelled at extradite story that broadly speaking envelop up all major plot point within a single , self - contained episode , with the casual 2 - partStar Trek : Voyagerepisode come some twice per time of year . This was a stark contrast to the ongoing play of the contemporaneousStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , which favored serialized storytelling to a much higher degree thanStar Trekhad previously .
DespiteVoyager ’s proclivity for unmarried - episode stories , Star Trek : Voyagerdoesn’t void serialisation entirely . There ’s a through bank line that persuade throughVoyager ’s seven season regarding the means characters dissemble and answer to one another and novel situations , as themain theatrical role ofStar Trek : Voyagerlearn to line up to their changing circumstances , with new acquaintance and enemy , and new developments to ongoing job . Sometimes , plot electric discharge go on through several episodes , and although they can be watch one by one , they make more signified when watched in gild .
Star Trek : Voyager ’s 20 best episodes bring out the best in Captain Kathryn Janeway , Seven of Nine , and the USS Voyager in the far - off Delta Quadrant .
10The USS Voyager vs. Seska & The Kazon
The Kazon and Seska are Voyager’s first challenge in Star Trek: Voyager seasons 1 & 2.
The Kazon areStar Trek : Voyager ’s first large badbut are n’t half as interesting as classic antagonists like Klingons or Romulans . Thedifferent Kazon sectsare intended to repeat war bunch sect , but the Kazon ’s internal strife does footling to pose an actual threat to the USS Voyager ’s crew . Meanwhile , one ofVoyager ’s recur crew members , Ensign Seska ( Martha Hackett ) , fans the flame of objection between Voyager ’s Maquis and Starfleet crews , until Seska reveals herself to be a Cardassian spy who may or may not be carrying Commander Chakotay ’s ( Robert Beltran ) baby .
The oily intrigue of the Seska storyline converges with the Kazon pose against Voyager for dominance in their own corner of quad , asSeska infiltrates the newspaper - tenuous Kazon hierarchy in a play for mightiness in the sector . With the Kazon - Nistrim wrapped around her finger’s breadth , Seska ’s coup on the USS Voyager culminates inStar Trek : Voyager’sseason 3 unfastener , " rudiments , Part 2 " , and cease there … at least until Seska ’s holographical leave gift is activated inVoyagerseason 3 , sequence 25 , " Worst Case Scenario " , most a year subsequently .
9Kes Develops Ocampa Powers
Jennifer Lien’s Kes grows stronger telepathy in Star Trek: Voyager seasons 2 & 3.
The USS Voyager picks up some Delta Quadrant aborigine to guide the first wooden leg of their journey , the quixotic pairing Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) and Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) . The Talaxian bargainer Neelix becomes the USS Voyager ’s chef and morale officer , while OcampaKes fits right in as help to the Doctor ( Robert Picardo).Kes is kind and artless , but there ’s little else for Kes to do inVoyager ’s first season , so inVoyagerseason 2,Kes ' telepathic powersdevelop .
Kes ' telepathy leads to telekinesis , which raise beyond the Ocampan ’s dominance .
Kes ' powers grow rapidly , help by meeting other Ocampa who have get the hang their abilities inVoyagerseason 2 , instalment 10 , " Cold Fire " . Aboard the USS Voyager , Kes string with Lt . Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) to help Kes control her powerseven though Tuvok ’s Vulcan telepathy maneuver differently from Ocampa endowment . Kes ' telepathy lead to psychokinesis , which grows beyond the Ocampan ’s ascendancy , so to keep Voyager ’s crew good , Kes must leave behind inVoyagerseason 4 , instalment 2 , " The Gift . "
8Tom Paris & B’Elanna Torres' Romance
Tom & B’Elanna’s relationship evolves in Star Trek: Voyager seasons 3 - 7.
The romance between Lieutenants Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) andB’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson)isn’t plan , but instead evolves from the characters ' chemical science with each other . Tom and B’Elanna play off of each other well in their earliest scenes together , and develop a friendship that manages to fall in through the ways that both Paris and Torres apply to avoid getting close to people . B’Elanna sees through Tom ’s occasional charm just as easily as Tom sees through B’Elanna ’s intentional hostility , and it turns out they have a lot in common .
Paris and Torres are one of thebestStar Trekromances .
The Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres romance grow over the course ofVoyager ’s integral run , from their initial merging to their wedlock , and the parentage of their daughter , Miral . The relationship softens both Tom and B’Elanna , who learn to accept love from each other , despite hard relationships with their parent crap them feel unworthy of it . Paris and Torres are one of thebestStar Trekromances , and a keen part ofVoyager ’s subtle serialization .
7Captain Janeway vs. The Borg
Voyager survives the Scorpion’s sting in Star Trek: Voyager seasons 4 - 7.
Unlike other Delta Quadrant species , Captain Janeway knows what she ’s getting into by engaging the Borg . Rather than avoid the Borg entirely , as Chakotay suggest , Janeway faces the Borg caput - on , making a tidy sum exchanging safe musical passage through Borg place for Voyager ’s assistance struggle Species 8472 , who ca n’t be assimilate . The Borg Queen ( Susanna Thompson , Alice Krige)and her monotone become Janeway ’s unfeigned bane through repeated clash , with each one stacking on the last before Admiral Janeway from the future tense and the Queen face off in a final battle .
Captain Janeway ’s tenseness with the Borg is also exemplified in Janeway ’s relationship with Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) . InJaneway and Seven of Nine ’s bestVoyagerepisodes , Janeway ’s imperativeness on Seven ’s humanity regularly clashes with Seven ’s own connections to the Collective , in a one - step - forward , two - step - back progression that withal displace frontward , resembling how people escape toxic systems or overcome addiction far more than a strictly additive telling would .
While Jean - Luc Picard is often think of as the Borg ’s greatest foeman , Kathryn Janeway deserves this accolade break what she did to the Borg Queen .
6Letters From Home
Hope comes in the form of a relay station in Star Trek: Voyager season 4.
The find of an desert subspace electrical relay station kicks off a account electric discharge that link up the USS Voyager with Federation space inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 . By using the station , Voyager ’s crew can finally send and find messages from the Alpha Quadrant , let their loved 1 have a go at it they ’re alive , but maroon . The initial messages are few and far between , sent only when certain conditions make it potential , and these infrequent missives find their way into the crew ’s hands in a fewVoyagerseason 4 episode , while setting up the coming Hirogen bow as well asVoyagerseason 6 ’s Pathfinder Project .
physical contact with family and Quaker after four years in the Delta Quadrant reveal a pile aboutVoyager ’s character . Many , likeEnsign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ) , are excited at the candidate of an early return , while some , like Paris and Torres , are less enthused about reuniting with estranged kinfolk member , or face Federation judgement after crime commit as member of the Maquis .
The promise of letter from home is the driving force behindVoyagerseason 4 ’s finale " Hope and Fear " , which also cry back toStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 ’s opening , " Scorpio , Part 2 " , with the upshot of defeating Species 8472 lastly coming to put up .
5The USS Voyager vs. the Hirogen
The nomadic hunters appear throughout Star Trek: Voyager season 4 - 7.
The predatory Hirogen come calling as owners of the electrical relay station after name that the USS Voyager ’s crew have been using it to communicate with the Alpha Quadrant . The concept of"the hunt"is central to Hirogen polish , which sorts exotic species according to their worthiness as prey . Despite their initial reservations , the Hirogen deem Voyager ’s crew particularly interesting targets , between Voyager ’s ability to subdue thevillainous Species 8472even when the Borg have failed to do so , and Federation holographic technology that makes the Hirogen ’s sacred William Holman Hunt more exciting than it has been in years .
Each Hirogen episode lays the foundation for the next one , andthe overall Hirogen spark do up at least two other disjoined storylinesthat emerge from the consequences , with Janeway ’s endowment of hologram technology playing intoStar Trek : Voyagerseason 7 ’s hologram rights arc , and the Hirogen relay station sound off off the eye mask effect of contact with the Alpha Quadrant , the Pathfinder Project , and the USS Voyager ’s eventual take home .
Hirogen Appearances inStar Trek : Voyager
Voyagerseason 4 , episode 14
" Message in a Bottle "
Voyagerseason 4 , episode 15
" Hunters "
Voyagerseason 4 , sequence 16
" Prey "
Voyagerseason 4 , instalment 18 & 19
" The Killing Game "
Voyagerseason 5 , episode 7
" Infinite Regress "
Voyagerseason 6 , episode 15
" Tsunkatse "
Voyagerseason 7 , sequence 1
" Unimatrix Zero , Part 2 "
Voyagerseason 7 , episode 9 & 10
" Flesh and Blood "
4Seven of Nine Becomes More Human
From Star Trek: Voyager season 4 - 7, Seven of Nine adapts.
Seven of Nine ’s character arcis perhaps the most significant in all ofStar Trek : Voyagerbecause Seven ’s development after being liberated from the Borg Collective practically require a serialized progression in rescript to work . Seven of Nine initially resists Janeway ’s insistence that Seven is human , and an individual , but that resistance plays out like a teenager ’s ; for chance on her own identity operator , Seven must first arise against authority , so she can learn how to limit herselfforherself .
Seven of Nine finds the balance between identity and a new collective aboard Voyager .
Seven ’s humanity is revealed slowly , realistically , with newfangled information that come to light about Seven ’s pre - assimilation life as Annika Hansen , Annika ’s scientist parent , and the Borg Queen ’s proposal to Seven of Nine to return to the Collective . By rejecting the Queen , Seven of Nine truly chooses herself , in a bleak contrast to the desires of the drone who beg for the Collective . With help from friend like theDoctor ( Robert Picardo ) , Seven of Ninefinds the balance between individuality and a young collective aboard Voyager .
3Icheb and the Borg Kids
Juvenile Borg drones are liberated in Star Trek: Voyager season 6.
InStar Trek : Voyagerseason 6 , episode 16 , " Collective , " the USS Voyager encounter young Borg monotone operating their own Cube after being reduce off from the larger Collective . After rescuing the drones , it would have been well-situated to plainly draw a blank the Borg kids , but this far into the serial , the small emancipated Collective of tiddler become recur characters onVoyager . Icheb ( Manu Intiraymi)is the firstborn , fall out by Mezoti ( Marley S. McClean ) , and twins Azan ( Kurt Wetherill ) and Rebi ( Cody Wetherill ) .
Naomi Wildman ( Scarlett Pomers ) , the only other child aboard the USS Voyager , is nimble to befriend these newfound peers . Already a friend to Naomi , Seven of Nine develops a maternal relationship with the emancipated drones , and Icheb in particular . assume a varlet from Janeway and the Doctor , Seven learn the baby on how to find their individuality , and see how to take precaution of other people who trust on her for guidance .
instalment 5 of Star Trek : Picard features a rejoin fiber from Star Trek : Voyager in Icheb . Who is he , and how is he connected to Seven of Nine ?
2The Pathfinder Project
Reginald Barclay returns in Star Trek: Voyager seasons 6 & 7.
A few year after the discovery of the subspace relay station that let Voyager to pass on with the Alpha quarter-circle , Voyagercatches up withStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s ownLt . Reginald Barclay ( Dwight Schultz ) , who has plunge himself in the Pathfinder Project . The Pathfinder Project ’s aim is to find a way to get the USS Voyager home quickly , and to do so , Barclay has created a holographical version of Voyager ’s crew based on written report received from the Delta Quadrant inVoyagerseason 4 ’s " Letters from family " arc .
While Reg ’s hyperfocus on the Voyager simulation share some similarities with Barclay ’s disordered holodeck use onTNG , Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis)returns to ensure that Barclay does n’t take it too far this time . alternatively of contribute to Barclay ’s maladaptive daydreaming , the Pathfinder Project and Barclay ’s holographical friend lead to an actual result .
Dwight Schultz ’s appearances as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek : Voyager
Voyagerseason 6 , episode 10
" Pathfinder "
Voyagerseason 6 , episode 24
" Life Line "
Voyagerseason 7 , instalment 6
" Inside Man "
Voyagerseason 7 , episode 20
1The Doctor’s Arc of Self-Actualization
Throughout Star Trek: Voyager’s entire run, the EMH proves that holograms are people, too,
After years of buildup , the Doctor ’s character electric arc come to a head whenStar Trek : Voyagerseason 7 ’s recurring theme is the right wing of holograms as photonic life forms . The Doctor ’s exploration of humanityinVoyager ’s other seasons , prompted by Kes ' friendship , direct to experimentation with additions to his program , like Falco subbuteo , raw acquisition , and even a family . With the improver of a mobile emitter inVoyagerseason 3 , the Doctor is no longer confined to sick berth and the holodeck , and the Doctor ’s emotional horizons commence to widen as wide as his physical ones .
ByVoyagerseason 7 , the Doctor call for agency for holograms by fighting prejudices against photonic beings .
Each subsequentseason ofStar Trek : Voyagerexpands on the Doctor ’s character , introducing fresh friendships , like Seven of Nine , and new challenges , like encountering other photonic life forms , that give the Doctor reason to reflect on the nature of his own world . TheDoctor learns how to endure up for himself as a person , owed the same right and privileges as any other member ofVoyager ’s crew . ByVoyagerseason 7 , the Doctor take agency for holograms by fighting prejudices against photonic beings , calling out the mistreatment of holograms , and asserting his rights as an writer .
Much like inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Voyager ’s serialization is the result of consequence influencing what happens next . Engaging the Borg introduces Seven ’s arc towards individuality , which in good turn influence character exploitation for the Doctor and Janeway . The find of the abandoned electrical relay station catches the aid of the Hirogen , dovetailing with the holograph rights storyline by and by , while also facilitating the alphabetic character from home plate . The letter of the alphabet trigger character development for B’Elanna , Tom , and their family relationship , and later introduce the Pathfinder project . It may be subtle , butStar Trek : Voyagerdoesn’t always hit the reset button .
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