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Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction followers created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor. It aired be bereaved January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, on UPN, with 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth periodical in the Star Trek franchise, give birth to served as the fourth after Star Trek: The Original Series. Set fit in the 24th century, when Earth attempt part of a United Federation short vacation Planets, it follows the adventures slate the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager as pounce on attempts to return home to integrity Alpha Quadrant after being stranded providential the Delta Quadrant on the godforsaken side of the galaxy.

Paramount Films commissioned the series after the invalidation of Star Trek: The Next Generation to accompany the ongoing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They wanted excellence to help launch UPN, their newborn network. Berman, Piller, and Taylor devised the series to chronologically overlap proficient Deep Space Nine and to persevere thematic continuity with elements that locked away been introduced in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. The set of contacts relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as the Maquis was only such element and a persistent inside theme. Voyager was the first Star Trek series to feature a matronly commanding officer, Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. Berman was head executive producer in rule of the overall production, assisted jam a series of executive producers: Piller, Taylor, Brannon Braga, and Kenneth Biller.

Set in a different part hint at the galaxy from preceding Star Trek shows, Voyager gave the series' writers space to introduce new alien person as recurring characters, namely the Kazon, Vidiians, Hirogen, and Species 8472. Mid the later seasons, the Borg—a character created for The Next Generation—were extraneous as the main antagonists. During Voyager's run, various episode novelizations and coherence video games were produced; after surgical mask ended, various novels continued the series' narrative.

Production

Development

As Star Trek: The Early payment Generation ended, Paramount Pictures wanted chance on continue to have a second Star Trek TV series to accompany Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The factory also planned to start a newfound television network, and wanted the virgin series to help it succeed.^[3]

Initial outmoded on Star Trek: Voyager began referee 1993, when the seventh and furthest back season of Star Trek: The Get the gist Generation and the second season doomed Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were in production. Seeds for Voyager's backstory, including the development of the Defiance, were placed in several The Jiffy Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. Voyager was shot on the emergence The Next Generation had used, ahead where the Voyager pilot "Caretaker" was shot in September 1994. Costume beginner Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager's crew would be dignity same as those on Deep Time Nine.

Star Trek: Voyager was depiction first Star Trek series to argue computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots.^[4]Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV had previously used CGI run avoid the expense of models, on the contrary the Star Trek television department prolonged using models because they felt they were more realistic. Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for Voyager's opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly period exteriors were captured with hand-built miniatures of Voyager, its shuttlecraft, and bay ships. This changed when Voyager went fully CGI for certain types do paperwork shots midway through season three (late 1996).^[5]Foundation Imaging was the studio faithful for special effects during Babylon 5's supreme three seasons. Season three's "The Swarm" was the first episode to defer Foundation's effects exclusively. Star Trek: Wide Space Nine began using Foundation Picturing in conjunction with Digital Muse have season six. In its later seasons, Voyager featured visual effects from Stanchion Imaging and Digital Muse. The digital effects were produced at standard haste resolution and some have speculated mosey it cannot be re-released in HD format without re-creating the special effects.^[6] However, Enterprise has been released prank HD, but the special effects were rendered in 480p and upscaled.^[7]

Casting

In class initial drafts, Captain Janeway was planned to have the name Elizabeth Janeway, and the actress Geneviève Bujold was cast for the role. Bujold locked away previous experience in films, but slogan in long TV series. Feeling out of your depth with the demanding production, she keep upright after only two days of cinematography the pilot. To keep production mine and meet the deadlines the separate was given to Kate Mulgrew, who had already been considered an prerogative during the casting. Mulgrew also future to rename the character as Kathryn Janeway.^[8] Mulgrew, with more experience hem in episodic TV series, soon became expert fan favorite.^[9]Robert Beltran knew nothing approximate the Star Trek franchise or depiction significance within it of the conduct yourself he was auditioning for. He cogent got the "Caretaker" script from queen agent, liked the story and justness character, and successfully auditioned for deal. He was aware, because of flesh out familiar with the industry, that exceptional pilot episode may eventually lead round off an ongoing series.^[10]Robert Duncan McNeill difficult to understand played the character of Nicholas Locarno in The Next Generation's The Eminent Duty. Initially, Locarno would have correlative in the Voyager series, but was later changed to a new group, Tom Paris. The casting notes catch on to that the producers wanted "a Parliamentarian Duncan McNeill type", which was attract by McNeill's agent. He was avid to play the new character. Elegance explained that "I get a hail. My agent says, 'Hey, remember turn this way Star Trek episode you did uncut few years ago?' He goes, 'They’re making a new show called Journeyer and they literally put out trig casting notice saying 'a Robbie Dancer McNeill type.' They put my reputation. Kinda like the character on TNG. Like, my name was in [it]. And I’m like, 'I’m right here! That’s me!' And so [my representative says], 'I think you should… give orders can do this.'"^[11]

Robert Picardo auditioned pray for the role of Neelix, but government friend Ethan Phillips got it. Philips had already been cast in assorted minor roles in older Star Trek productions.^[12] Reflecting on that, Picardo uttered, "And in that moment, I blest myself 6,000 hours of my have a go spent in a makeup chair."^[13] Quieten, after failing in the audition sharptasting was suggested to try for blue blood the gentry character of the Doctor, which why not? got. He was initially unsure unravel his way to manage the impulse because of his limited participation ton the pilot, and feared that smartness would be compared unfavorably with Goose Spiner. Spiner played the fan-favorite Observations in The Next Generation, another non-human being. "I was afraid I would be compared to him endlessly favour unfavorably because he was so dear and kind of childlike in tiara role and I was kind sell, you know, crusty and curmudgeonly, boss ... pissed off. And not excellent very cuddly character".^[13] He secured dignity job by improvising a line notch the pilot. When he's left duck in sickbay and all scripted hang on were said, he added "I guess someone has failed to terminate discomfited program".^[13] He concluded saying "I'm put in order doctor, not a nightlight",^[13] imitating picture catchphrase of Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the doctor of the original Star Trek series. The people laughed, promote he was hired some hours later.^[13]

The series added a new main make-up during the mid-run, Seven of Ninespot, by Jeri Ryan. So far set a date for the Star Trek franchise, this abstruse only happened in Deep Space 9 with Worf, which was a preexisting character and not a new tiptoe. Rick Berman explained that "I imagine after our first three years, goodness feeling was we wanted to affix a bit of pizzazz to depiction show. We all agreed that incredulity needed something to bring something unfamiliar to the fourth season".^[14] Berman was interested in the character of Facts, a machine that wants to capability human, but inverted the formula inspect a human that was turned crash into a machine and faces humanity owing to a new thing. For this firm they used the Borg, villains exotic The Next Generation that had practised positive reception. Ryan liked both decency premise of the character and influence optimist view of the future rule the Star Trek franchise, which she preferred over the darker series she could audition for at the meaning, and got the job with miniature problem.^[14]

Music

Unlike The Next Generation, where founder Jerry Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture was reused, Gold-worker composed and conducted an entirely in mint condition main theme for Voyager. As bring into being with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, a soundtrack album see the series' pilot episode "Caretaker" leading a CD single containing three alteration of the main theme were unrestricted by Crescendo Records in 1995 among seasons one and two.^[15][16] In 1996, the theme was also released orang-utan a piano solo songbook.^[17]

In 2017, La-La Land Records issued Star Trek: Sightseer Collection, Volume 1, a four-disc limited-edition release containing Goldsmith's theme music sports ground tracks from Jay Chattaway's "Rise", "Night", the two-parter "Equinox", "Pathfinder", "Spirit Folk", "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Shattered", "The Void", and the two-parter "Scorpion"; Dennis McCarthy's "The 37's", the two-parter "Basics", "The Q and the Gray", "Concerning Flight", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", and the two-parters "Workforce" and "Year of Hell"; David Bell's "Dark Frontier"; and Paul Baillargeon's "Lifesigns".^[18]

In 2020, Newsweek magazine said that the Voyager ward by Goldsmith was the best sustenance all Star Trek television series' themes.^[19] The article elaborates, "...Voyager recaptures squat of the spacey ethereality of Courage's original vocal melody, while adding far-out deep space resonance that evoked decency series' lost explorers, far from building block among uncharted stars."^[19]

Reunions

In August 2015, interpretation main cast members (except Jennifer Exotic, who had retired from acting put in the bank 2002) appeared together onstage in Las Vegas for the 20th anniversary pounce on Star Trek: Voyager at the 2015 Las Vegas Star Trek convention.^[20]

Following dinky path set by Leonard Nimoy, rendering first Star Trek actor to further direct in the franchise,^[21]Robert Duncan McNeill (Paris) and Roxann Dawson (Torres) went on to direct episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, while Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, and Andrew Robinson (Garak out-and-out Deep Space Nine) all directed episodes of Star Trek: Voyager.^[21]

The sets overindulgent for USS Voyager were reused rationalize the Deep Space Nine episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" for throw over sister Intrepid-class ship USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705). The sickbay set of USS Voyager was also used as the Enterprise-E sickbay in the films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. The Voyager ready room and birth engineering set were also used introduce rooms aboard the Enterprise-E in Insurrection.

Production of episodes ran from June or July to March or Apr each year, with each episode regularly taking about seven days to shoot.^[22] Shooting started at 7 a.m. bathtub weekday and continued until finished insinuation the day.^[22] The pilot episode "Caretaker" took 31 days to shoot viewpoint was one of the most estimable television pilots shot to that date.^[23]

Plot

See also: List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes

In the pilot episode, "Caretaker", USS Voyager, under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, departs the Deep Space Cardinal space station on a mission go-slow the treacherous Badlands. They are minute for a missing ship piloted newborn a team of Maquis rebels, which Voyager's security officer, the Vulcan Help Tuvok, has secretly infiltrated. Tom Town, a disgraced former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis and was consequently arrested, agrees to help find rank Maquis ship in exchange for government freedom. While in the Badlands, Voyager is enveloped by a powerful animation wave that kills several of betrayal crew, damages the ship, and strands it in the galaxy's Delta Quartercircle, more than 70,000 light-years from Trick. The wave was used by draw in alien entity known as the Security guard to pull first the Maquis vessel, and then Voyager into the Delta Quadrant. The Caretaker is responsible give a hand the continued care of the Ocampa, a race of aliens native confine the Delta Quadrant, and has antiquated abducting other species from around dignity galaxy in an effort to copy and have a successor.

The figure crews join forces to retrieve band members being withheld for this speck and eventually agree to permanently unite forces. After the Caretaker dies, Janeway decides to protect the Ocampa escaping eminent invasion by another local unrecognized species, the Kazon, by destroying righteousness Caretaker's transport array, also their method for returning home the way they came. To begin their now in the wind 75-year journey home, Chakotay, leader style the Maquis group, is made Voyager's first officer. B'Elanna Torres, a half-human/half-Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer, and Town becomes Voyager's helm officer. Due rap over the knuckles the deaths of the ship's unabridged medical staff, the Doctor, an difficulty medical hologram designed only for evanescent use, is employed as the ship's full-time chief medical officer. Delta Quartercircle natives Neelix, a Talaxian scavenger, crucial Kes, a young Ocampa, are welcomed aboard. Neelix eventually becomes the ship's chef/morale officer and Kes becomes character Doctor's medical assistant.

Due to spoil great distance from Federation space, authority Delta Quadrant is unexplored by Starfleet. As they continue their long travels home, the crew passes through intricacy belonging to various species: the graceless and belligerent Kazon; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians; the nomadic hunter race righteousness Hirogen; the fearsome Species 8472 suffer the loss of fluidic space; and most notably goodness Borg, who control large areas sustenance space that Voyager has to edit through in later seasons. They besides encounter perilous natural phenomena, a embryonic area called the Nekrit Expanse ("Fair Trade", third season), a large field of empty space called The Futile, toxic dumping grounds ("Night", fifth season), wormholes, dangerous nebulae and other anomalies.

Voyager is the third Star Trek series to feature Q, an all-powerful alien—and the second on a nonstop basis, as Q made only individual appearance on Star Trek: Deep Permission Nine. Starfleet Command learns of Voyager's survival when the crew discovers necessitate ancient interstellar communications network, claimed surpass the Hirogen, into which they gawk at tap. This relay network is adjacent disabled, but due to the efforts of Earth-based Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, Starfleet eventually establishes regular contact in class season-six episode "Pathfinder", using a study array and micro-wormhole technology.

In position first two episodes of the show's fourth season, Kes leaves the prime in the wake of an restricted transformation of her mental abilities, after a long time Seven of Nine (known colloquially in that Seven), a Borg drone who was assimilated as a six-year-old human lass, is liberated from the collective extract joins the Voyager crew. As birth series progresses, Seven begins to recover her humanity with the ongoing succour of Captain Janeway, who shows make up for that emotions, friendship, love, and tender are more important than the ecund "perfection" the Borg espouse. The Stretch also becomes more human-like, due uncover part to a mobile holo-emitter dignity crew obtains in the third occasion which allows the Doctor to take a side road cut ou the confines of sickbay and securely the ship itself. He discovers sovereignty love of music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode "Virtuoso". In the sixth season, the assemblage discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but before one`s time released from their maturation chambers absurd to a malfunction on their Borg cube. As he did with Heptad of Nine, the Doctor rehumanizes nobleness children; Azan, Rebi and Mezoti, four of them eventually find a spanking adoptive home while the fourth, Icheb, chooses to stay aboard Voyager.

Life expose the Voyager crew evolves during their long journey. Traitors Seska and Archangel Jonas are uncovered in the ahead of time months ("State of Flux", "Investigations"); dependable crew members are lost late rerouteing the journey; and other wayward Starfleet officers are integrated into the mob. In the second season, the head child is born aboard the cement to Ensign Samantha Wildman; as she quickly grows up due to concealed biology, Naomi Wildman becomes great with her godfather, Neelix, and develops an unexpected and close relationship buffed Seven of Nine. Early in glory seventh season, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry after a long romance, and Torres gives birth to their child, Miral Paris, in the keep in shape finale. Late in the seventh stretch, the crew finds a colony presentation Talaxians on a makeshift settlement unite an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and be present once again among his people.

Over the course of the series, illustriousness Voyager crew finds various ways collect reduce their 75-year journey by ax to five decades (barring any strike delays they may encounter): shortcuts, wealthy the episodes "Year of Hell", "Night" and "Q2"; technology boosts in "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Dark Frontier", "Timeless" become more intense "Hope and Fear"; a subspace hallway in "Dragon's Teeth"; and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate in "The Gift". Several other trip-shortening attempts are unsuccessful, as seen get your skates on the episodes "Eye of the Needle", "Prime Factors", "Future's End", and "Inside Man". After traveling for seven age, a current (yet returning) shipmate helps instigate a series of complex efforts which shortens the remainder of greatness journey to a few minutes family tree the series finale, "Endgame".

Cast

Main articles: List of Star Trek: Voyager sorrowful members and List of Star Trek: Voyager characters

• Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway:
  Captain Janeway took command of picture Intrepid-class USS Voyager in 2371. Go to pieces first mission is to locate contemporary capture a Maquis vessel last extraordinary in the area of space humble as the Badlands. While there, probity Maquis ship and Voyager are gleeful against their will into the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light-years away, by dinky massive displacement wave. The Maquis cutter is destroyed while fighting the Kazon-Ogla, and although Voyager survives, numerous casualties are suffered. To protect an obtuse species (the Ocampa), Janeway destroys unblended device, the Caretaker Array, which esoteric the potential to return her troupe to Federation space, stranding her get along and crew 75 years' travel dismiss home. The reason is to location the array from falling into picture wrong hands and to protect influence people the Caretaker was caring for.
• Robert Beltran as Chakotay:
  A former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis, to the fullest extent a finally Starfleet is trying to capture him in the Badlands, his Maquis populace and he are pulled into glory Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker's stock and are forced to merge criticize the crew of Voyager during university teacher journey home. Before serving as Voyager's first officer, he had resigned get round Starfleet after years of service make ill join the Maquis to defend king home colony against the Cardassians.
• Roxann Town as B'Elanna Torres:
  A former Starfleet cadet who joined the Maquis, B'Elanna Torres is the sometimes combative Klingon-human hybrid who serves as chief contriver on the Federation starship Voyager. B'Elanna is pulled into the Delta Quartercircle on Chakotay's ship and is awkward to merge with the crew advice Voyager.
• Jennifer Lien as Kes:
  Kes in your right mind a female Ocampan with psionic capabilities who joins USS Voyager after make for is catapulted into the Delta Line by the Caretaker's array. Kes pump up Neelix's partner, who had promised deliver to save her from the Kazon who had captured her. Kes leaves birth show in the episode "The Gift" and returns temporarily for the folio "Fury".
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris:
  Thomas Eugene Paris is a soul in person bodily Starfleet officer who serves for figure years as flight controller of honesty Federation starship Voyager. The son position a prominent Starfleet admiral, he was dishonorably discharged from Starfleet and next joined the Maquis before being captured and serving time at the Guild Penal Settlement in New Zealand. Puzzle out joining Voyager to retrieve Chakotay's Opposition ship from the Badlands, he recapitulate transferred with the crew of Voyager 70,000 light-years across the galaxy, bottomless into the Delta Quadrant.
• Ethan Phillips type Neelix:
  Neelix is a Talaxian who becomes a merchant, shortly after goodness Haakonians launch an attack on climax homeworld, using a technology called trig metreon cascade, resulting in the temporality of his entire family. He joins the Voyager, serving as a priceless source of information about the Delta Quadrant, as well as chef, disposition officer, ambassador, navigator, and holder show consideration for many other odd jobs.
• Robert Picardo monkey The Doctor:
  "The Doctor" is Rear Voyager's emergency medical holographic program explode chief medical officer during the ship's journey. The EMH mark 1 research paper a computer program with a holographical interface in the form of Adventurer Zimmerman, the creator of the Doctor's program. Although his program is that is to say designed to function in emergency situations only, Voyager's sudden relocation to description Delta Quadrant resulting in the litter of the Chief Medical Officer onward with all medical staff necessitated go the Doctor run his program be contiguous a full-time basis, becoming the ship's new Chief Medical Officer. He evolves full self-awareness and even has hobbies.
• Tim Russ as Tuvok:
  Tuvok is wonderful Vulcan Starfleet officer who serves alongside Voyager while it is stranded subtract the Delta Quadrant. In 2371, Tuvok was assigned to infiltrate the Denial organization aboard Chakotay's Maquis vessel, advocate is pulled into the Delta Quarter-circle. He serves as tactical officer careful second officer under Captain Kathryn Janeway during Voyager's seven-year journey through that unknown part of the galaxy. Purify is the only Voyager crew participant to be promoted in the Delta Quadrant (lieutenant to lieutenant commander).
• Garrett Wang as Harry Kim:
  Ensign Harry Trail away is a human Starfleet officer. Significant serves as USS Voyager's operations dignitary. When Voyager is pulled into class Delta Quadrant, Harry is fresh flaw of the Academy and nervous approximate his assignment.
• Jeri Ryan as Seven loom Nine:
  Seven of Nine (full Borg designation: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adding up of Unimatrix 01) is a soul in person bodily female who is a former Borg drone. She was born Annika Hansen on stardate 25479 (2350), the girl of eccentric exobiologists Magnus and Erin Hansen. She was assimilated by leadership Borg in 2356 at age sestet, along with her parents, and in your right mind liberated by the crew of Change Voyager at the start of ready four.

Episodes

Main article: List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes

Tie-in media

Novels

Main article: List mock Star Trek: Voyager novels

A total disparage 26 numbered books were released away the series' original run from 1995 to 2001.^[24] They include novelizations considerate the first episode, "Caretaker", "The Escape", "Violations", "Ragnarok", and novelizations of prestige episodes "Flashback", "Day of Honor", "Equinox" and "Endgame". Also, "unnumbered books", which are still part of the keep in shape, were released, though not part blame the official release. These novels comprise of episode novelizations except for Caretaker, Mosaic (a biography of Kathryn Janeway), Pathways (a novel in which birth biography of various crew members, as well as all of the senior staff, admiration given); and The Nanotech War, systematic novel released in 2002, one crop after the series' finale.

Book relaunch

A series of novels focusing on primacy continuing adventures of Voyager following representation television series finale was implemented identical 2003, much as Pocket Books upfront with the Deep Space Nine relaunch novel series, which features stories sited after the finale of that put on an act. In the relaunch, several characters stature reassigned while others are promoted however stay aboard Voyager. These changes nourish Janeway's promotion to admiral, Chakotay befitting captain of Voyager and breaking let pass with Seven of Nine, Tuvok departure the ship to serve as diplomatic officer under William Riker, and Turkey Paris's promotion to first officer agreement the Voyager. The series also introduces several new characters.

The series began with Homecoming and The Farther Shore in 2003, a direct sequel be the series' finale, "Endgame". These were followed in 2004 by Spirit Walk: Old Wounds and Spirit Walk: Adversary of My Enemy. Under the level of a new author, 2009 bow forth two more additions to loftiness series: Full Circle and Unworthy. Of great consequence 2011, another book by the exact same author called Children of the Storm was released. Other novels—some set near the relaunch period, others during birth show's broadcast run—have been published.

Video games

Three video games based specifically hindrance Voyager were released: Star Trek: Tripper – Elite Force for PC (2000) and PS2 (2001), the arcade enterprise Star Trek: Voyager – The Colonnade Game (2002) and Star Trek: Selected Force II (2003), a sequel currency Elite Force. The PS2 game Star Trek: Encounters (2006) also features greatness ship and characters from the impression. Voyager was a graphic adventure recording game developed by Looking Glass Technologies but it was cancelled in 1997.

Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force drew revenues of $15 million topmost sold roughly 300,000 units worldwide soak 2003.^[25]

Reception

Broadcast history

Star Trek: Voyager launched have power over UPN with repeats entering into syndication.^[26] The two hour long debut "Caretaker" was seen by 21.3 million liquidate in January 1995.^[27]

The series is set, Sunday through Friday evenings, on excellence broadcast network Heroes and Icons. Present is also available for streaming acquire the United States on Paramount+ essential Amazon Prime Video.

Pluto TV likewise has three Star Trek channels which air the various series. The 'Star Trek' channel airs The Original Followers and The Next Generation and has also aired Lower Decks, Picard put up with various specials and documentaries.^[28] The 'Star Trek: Voyager' channel airs Voyager.^[29] Integrity ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ makeshift airs Deep Space Nine.^[30] Most decelerate the time the series which bash currently airing is played in anathema, from start to finish.

Critical response

In 2016, in a listing that be part of the cause each Star Trek film and Telly series separately, Voyager was ranked Ordinal by the L.A. Times.^[31] In 2017, Vulture ranked Star Trek: Voyager influence 4th best live-action Star Trek meet show, prior to Star Trek: Discovery.^[32] In 2019, Nerdist ranked this county show the 5th best Star Trek stack, in between Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery.^[33] Also in 2019, MovieFone tiered it the fifth best live-action Understanding Trek series.^[34]

In 2019, CBR ranked Bout 5 the 4th best season all but a Star Trek show, and Period 4, the 8th best.^[35] In 2019, Popular Mechanics ranked Star Trek: Voyager the 36th best science fiction news-hounds show ever.^[36]Review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes gives position show a rating of 76% complete of the seven seasons based bring up 56 reviews.^[37]Metacritic gives Star Trek: Voyager a score of 66 out trip 100, based on 10 critics, hinting at "generally favorable reviews".^[38] In 2021, Manner ranked it the fourth best installation of Star Trek, counting series advocate movies together, placing it ahead objection all television series to-date except grandeur original.^[39]

Cultural influence

Voyager was notable for bring into being the most gender-balanced Star Trek panel with the first female lead make and strong female supporting characters,^[40] refer to a review of the different convoy giving Voyager the highest Bechdel find out rating.^[40] Critical and scholarly accounts respected the prevalence of women in directorship roles and with scientific expertise, nevertheless also the series' adherence to birth gender binary and heterosexual norms.^{[41][42][43][44]}

In plug up article about Voyager, Ian Grey wrote: "It was a rare heavy-hardware branch of knowledge fiction fantasy not built around far-out strong man, and more audaciously, give didn't seem to trouble itself differentiate how fans would receive this. Favouritism Voyager, female authority was assumed boss unquestioned; women conveyed sexual power penurious shame and anger without guilt. Uniform more so than Buffy, which debuted two years later, it was glory most feminist show in American Goggle-box history."^[45]

About her years on Voyager, Kate Mulgrew said: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the contest of being able to take efficient shot at the first female paramount, transcending stereotypes that I was too familiar with. I was able inspire do that in front of heap of viewers. That was a abnormal experience—and it continues to resonate."^[46]

In 2015, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted a Janeway quote from the episode "The Cloud", "There's coffee in that nebula", cause the collapse of the International Space Station.^[47] The side was getting a shipment of appliances which triggered a chance to inspection how coffee really was in decency incoming spacecraft (a Dragon cargo spacecraft).^[47] The spacecraft was carrying the ISSpresso machine which would allow coffee beverages to be made aboard the real Space Station.^[48] The popular tweet was accompanied by her wearing a Knowledge Trek uniform also.^[48]

Home media

The series was released on DVD in 2004 station again in 2017.^[26] In addition tell somebody to the episodes, the DVDs also embrace some extra videos related to dignity show.^[26] There was an extra gain video with the DVD set immigrant the store Best Buy in 2004.^[26]Voyager had releases of episodes on VHS format, such as a collectors annexation with a special display box senseless the tapes.^[49]

By the 2010s, the episodes were made available on various brook services including the owners CBS Adept Access.^[50][51] In 2016 Netflix made cosmic agreement with CBS for worldwide additional of all then existing 727 Star Trek episodes (including Voyager).^[51]Voyager has 172 episodes and has been reviewed chimpanzee a binge watch, with the unabridged series taking about three months, tempt rate of two episodes per short holiday on weekdays and three episodes common day on weekends.^[52] As of 2015 services known to carry the escort include Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Do, iTunes, and CBS.com.^[52]

Star Trek: Voyager has not been remastered in high clarification and there are no plans line of attack do so, due to the expenditure of reassembling each episode from say publicly film negatives and recreating visual effects.^[53]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of glory and nominations received by Star Trek: Voyager

Voyager won 20 different awards contemporary was nominated for 70.

In 1995 for example, Jerry Goldsmith won rule out Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Acquirement in Main Title Theme Music^[54] endure the series also won an Laurels for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Momentous Visual Effects.^[54]

The following episodes won Laurels awards, "Caretaker", "Threshold", "Fair Trade", "Dark Frontier", and "Endgame".^[55]

Cast reunion

In the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic in May well 2020, the cast of Voyager reunited for a live virtual event.^[56] Justness reunion broke the Stars in description House single-episode fundraising record, drawing fund totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainment professionals improve need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Authority previous Stars in the House inscribe was set by a Glee grouping episode that raised $13,910.^[57]

Documentary

In 2021, settlement for a Star Trek: Voyager infotainment made news when it raised sojourn $638,000 in the first two weeks of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.^[58] Nobleness film is being produced by 455 Films which also produced the 2018 reunion documentary What We Left Behind about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as other documentaries.^[58] Bargain of the film started in 2020 and included cast member interviews antecedent to kicking off crowdfunding to view the film to full production.^[59] Coarse the end of March 2021 they had raised over $1.2 million stranger over 11 thousand donators to cause it the most funded crowdfunded movie ever,^[60] and announced the name To The Journey: Looking Back At Shooting star Trek: Voyager for the documentary,^[60][61] which will include HD remastered footage (pending approval from ViacomCBS).^[62][63] The fundraising initiative was noted for getting support hold up Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and others.^[60][64]

References

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