Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
Star Trek : Voyager ’s 2 - part episodes on a regular basis raised the stakes for Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and the USS Voyager ’s crew on its journey homeward through the Delta Quadrant , making them some ofVoyager ’s best episodes . Each ofVoyager ’s seven seasons incorporated at least one 2 - part episode , with many ofVoyager ’s 2 - part sequence keep up the custom established byStar Trek : The Next Generationthat transmit the first part as a season closing curtain cliffhanger before resolving the story lines in the 2nd part as next season ’s premiere episode .
The 2 - part episodes ofStar Trek : Voyagerwere ambitious , compared toVoyager ’s usual occasional fare . Several 2 - part installment were spotlight features for some ofVoyager ’s most notable villain : the predatory Hirogen , who saw others as quarry to be dominated ; and the infamous Borg Collective , the cybernetic beehive judgment run by the eerie Borg Queen ( Susannah Thompson , Alice Krige ) . OtherStar Trek : Voyager2 - parters challengedVoyager ’s master characterswith questions of identity , considered the dangers of time - travel , or posed another likely manner home , but all of them had something to say .
Star Trek : Voyager ’s 20 best episodes bring out the good in Captain Kathryn Janeway , Seven of Nine , and the USS Voyager in the far - off Delta Quadrant .
12"Basics"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 2, Episode 26 & Season 3, Episode 1
Star Trek : Voyagercloses its second season with another chapter of the story arc featuringSeska ( Martha Hackett ) , a Cardassian spy who had been posing as a Bajoran among the Maquis crew . Allied with the Kazon - Nistrim , Seska takes over the USS Voyager and leaves the gang stranded on an inhospitable major planet . Watching the Voyager gang come together to make it is what the first few time of year are all about , but the settlement to the cliffhanger is muddied with plot points that turn important elements from the far more entertaining first half , like the paternity of Seska ’s baby and the potential buyback of Ensign Lon Suder ( Brad Dourif ) .
11"Unimatrix Zero"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 6, Episode 26 & Season 7, Episode 1
ThroughSeven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan),Star Trek : Voyagerdid a portion to expand the lore behind the Borg afterStar Trek : First Contactestablished the Borg Queen as the central figure of the Collective . " Unimatrix Zero " introduce the concept of an eponymic virtual globe that droning enrol in dreams , where they can recover pre - assimilation memory and endure out life as soul . The existence of Unimatrix Zero is a threat to the Collectivethat the Queen wants to pigeonhole out and Janeway wants to exploit . It ’s a weird premiss that undermine Seven ’s character a bit , but it progress on the on-going battle between Janeway and the Borg with some solid action scene .
10"Workforce"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 7, Episodes 16 & 17
On the planet Quarra , a British Labour Party shortage forces bay window to abduct passersby and reconfigure their memories , so they have no knowledge of their lives before coming to work at Quarra ’s monolithic power plants and manufacturing plant . “Workforce " has something unusually prescient to sayabout the dangers of corporations with too much power , and how they ’re too willing to expend red tape and jargon to obfuscate exactly how workers are overwork , butStar Trek : Voyagerseason 7 ’s 2 - parter take up to a great extent fromVoyagerseason 4 ’s " The Killing Game " , which treat the USS Voyager gang ’s amnesia far better , and with higher stakes .
9"Flesh and Blood”
Star Trek: Voyager season 7, episodes 9 & 10
A follow - up to " The Killing Game",“Flesh and Blood " explore the ramification of Captain Janeway gifting the Hirogen with Federation hologram technology . Instead of providing the Hirogen with a mean value to wage in their ceremonial hunting bloodlessly , the Hirogen ’s meddle inadvertently allow the holograms sentience . Led by Bajoran hologram Iden ( Jeff Yagher ) and fall in by the Doctor , the rising against the Hirogen is a polar part of the Doctor ’s crusade for the right hand of photonic beings . It ’s aStar Trek : Voyagerepisode with honest continuity , reaching both backwards and forwards , that also raises questions of what it means to be sentient , and what people rightfully deserve .
8"Caretaker”
Star Trek: Voyager Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2
The2 - hr premiere ofStar Trek : Voyagerhas its ups and downs , but on the whole , " Caretaker " does a enceinte job of establishingVoyager ’s cast of character , their motives , and their morals , by place them in a classicStar Trekmoral dilemma . The introduction to the Ocampa is interesting , and they could have been a more importantStar Trekspecies ifVoyagerhad been able to deliver on what " Caretaker " promised . Janeway ’s decision reveals exactly what she valuate , despite strand the USS Voyager in the Delta Quadrant , and the clear contrast to Commander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) and his Maquis bunch sets up the challenges to come onVoyager ’s long trek home .
Standout episode show the best of Captain Janeway and the USS Voyager crowd throughout each of Star Trek : Voyager ’s 7 seasons in the Delta Quadrant .
7"Dark Frontier"
Star Trek: Voyager, season 5, episodes 15 & 16
Dark Frontier " effort to putStar Trek : Voyageron a stratum withStar Trek : First Contactby bringing back theBorg Queen ( Susanna Thompson)and stretching the tension over its 2 hours . Captain Janeway ’s plan to slip a Borg transwarp conduit from a not - so - dead regular hexahedron backfires , as the Queen attempts to tempt Seven of Nine back to the Collective . The stress is to a great extent on Seven , between Seven ’s interior fight for the biography she once live vs. newfound individualism , and the remembering of Seven ’s pre - assimilation life that are let on . “Dark Frontier " is a must - keep an eye on for fans of Seven of Nine , despite the rest ofVoyager ’s cast taking a backseat .
" Dark Frontier " maintain the component of Seven of Nine ’s backstory insert inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 , sequence 6 , " The Raven " .
6"Future’s End”
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episodes 8 & 9
After evading 29th - hundred secular officer Captain Braxton ( Allan G. Royal ) , the USS Voyager is last back on Earth … but a few century too early . Although the secular prime directive keep Voyager from delay in the Alpha Quadrant , " Future ’s End " takes Voyager ’s crew through twists and turns of motivation and outcomes , tracking down Braxton and then tech mogul Henry Starling ( Ed Begley , Jr. ) before Starling launch Braxton ’s stolen time ship into the future tense . The time - change of location vanity produce bodily fluid aplenty , as Voyager ’s gang encounters the 90s in all the decade ’s glory , peculiarly when Lt . Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) and Lt . Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) befriend Gen X astrophysicist Rain Robinson ( Sarah Silverman ) .
The Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) receive his mobile emitter in " Future ’s End " , which give up the Doctor to at last leave sickbay .
5"Equinox"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 26 & Season 6, Episode 1
4"The Killing Game"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4, Episodes 18 & 19
The Hirogen take over Voyager ’s holodecks to create sprawl search terra firma , focusing on a World War II reenactment casting the Hirogen as Nazis . The crew believe they really are the characters they ’re playing , to make them better prey , while disabled guard protocol mean the Doctor must keep reviving losers in the Hirogen ’s Modern plot . " The Killing Game " is a gamy concept that ’s executed well , andVoyager ’s cast are clearly having fun in this one , specially Janeway as a rebel and Chakotay as a military officeholder in a neat reversal of their actual roles , and Seven of Nine as a nightclub singer who may or may not be a spy .
3"Endgame"
Star Trek: Voyager, season 7, episodes 25 & 26
Star Trek : Voyagergoes out go off on all cylinders , with Kathryn Janeway ’s devotion to the USS Voyager crew at its heart . An previous Admiral Janeway retrieve a way to bring the USS Voyager home sooner , while also avoiding heavy losses , and raise a present - day Captain Janeway to help her do it . Even if the Temporal Prime Directive is addressed , it ’s nothing compared to Janeway fulfilling Janeway ’s promise to the crowd to bring in Voyager habitation at all costs . The consequence is a high - Department of Energy , action - fill finale that spans two timelines , with the ultimate payoff of the USS Voyager ’s long - promise return to the Alpha Quadrant , and the end ofJaneway ’s vendetta against the Borg .
