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Production: USA, 1995-2001 Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Garrett Wang, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Jennifer Lien (first three seasons), Jeri Ryan (since fourth season). When “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was close to end, producers began to think about a new serie. Until then the idea of two parallel series (the other was “Deep Space 9”) had worked, so they wanted to go on the same way. |
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DS9 took place on a space station, so the new serie had to be focused on
space exploration again. But with two new ideas: the first was that the
ship (no more called “Enterprise” but “Voyager”) did not simply explore
space, but had been thrown by chance in a remote and unknown region of
space. So its mission had simply become “finding the way back home” (not a
particularly original idea, if we mention, for example, “Lost in Space” or
“Space: 1999”). The second new idea was a woman captain. At first the role was assigned to actress Geneviève Bujold, but she left the set after a few days, rumors said she was incompatible with her character. So captain Kathryn Janeway was played by Kate Mulgrew. In the first episode Federation ship “Voyager” is pursuing a “maquis” ship: maquis are |
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rebel Federation officers who have created a
renegade army to defend human colonies from the always wary cardassians
(the alien villains already seen in “DS9”). Due to a space warp phenomenon, the Voyager and the maquis ship are thrown 70,000 light-years far from Federation space. The two crews are forced to team-up for the long voyage to their home planets. During this long voyage they will face several dangers and meet various alien races. As said, in command of the “Voyager” there is captain Kathryn Janeway, a woman absolutely fit for her duty, but no lacking of femininity. First officer is commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran). A red indian, he comes from the maquis ship crew pursued by Voyager. Possessing a honour code as a real warrior, he is absolutely trusted by his crew. |
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Security chief is vulcan Tuvok (Tim Russ). Confronting with famous mr.
Spock of the original serie, Tuvok has an even more solid logic, being
completely vulcan and not half human like Spock. Chief engineer is a woman again: B’Elanna Torres (Roxann Biggs-Dawson), too coming from the maquis ship. Voyager’s pilot is young Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), rebel and impulsive, who once had too been one of the maquis, and has been assigned to the Voyager because captain Janeway trusted his skillness. Scientific and communications officer is ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang), a character half way between original serie lieutenant Sulu (he is oriental too) and ensign Chekov (he is too a young and little experienced ensign). |
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But the most interesting character of the serie,
like Spock from the original serie and Data from “Next Generation” , is
“the Doctor” (Robert Picardo): he is not an alien or an android, but even
a simple hologram projected by the ship computer. Programmed to replace
the ship’s doctor in case of emergency, after the “human” doctor’s death
in the first episode he is forced to become the new medical officer.
Anyway its program is able to “learn”, so he can build a personality and a
memory of its own. Finally there are two more aliens (engaged too): Neelix (Ethan Phillips), the comic character of the show, and Kes (Jennifer Lien), a girl possessing strong telepathic powers. At the end of third season, anyway, writers thought that Kes was no more functional with the show, and replaced her with another character who |
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became very popular: Seven-of-Nine (Jeri Ryan), a
very beautiful borg girl. Oddly, Jeri Ryan did not like the character and
should have played it only for four episodes. Long negotiations were
needed to convince her to stay in the Voyager’s crew. So, at the beginning of the fourth season Kes developed highly strong telepathic powers, forcing the crew to abandone her on a planet because she had become too dangerous for anyone. Voyager’s success was not as great as the previous series, and it looked as “Star Trek” franchise had begun simply to keep going. 172 episodes, colour, 60’ |
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| First Season 1) Caretaker - part I 2) Caretaker - part II 3) Parallax 4) Time and Again 5) Phage 6) The Cloud 7) Eye of the Needle 8) Ex Post Facto 9) Emanations |
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| 10) Prime Factors 11) State of Flux 12) Heroes and Demons 13) Cathexis 14) Faces 15) Jetrel 16) Learning Curve 17) Projections 18) Elogium 19) Twisted 20) The 37's |
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| 29) Prototype 30) Death Wish 31) Alliances 32) Threshold 33) Meld 34) Dreadnought 35) Investigations 36) Lifesigns 37) Deadlock 38) Innocence 39) The Thaw |
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| 40) Tuvix 41) Resolutions 42) Basics - Part I Third Season 43) Sacred Ground 44) False Profits 45) Flashback 46) Basics - Part II 47) The Chute |
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| 48) Remember 49) The Swarm 50) Future's End - Part I 51) Future's End - Part II 52) Warlord 53) The Q and the Grey 54) Macrocosm 55) Alter Ego 56) Fair Trade 57) Blood Fever 58) Coda |
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| 59) Unity 60) Rise 61) Darkling 62) Favorite Son 63) Before and After 64) Real Life 65) Distant Origin 66) Displaced 67) Worst Case Scenario 68) Scorpion - Part I |
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Fourth Season 69) Scorpion - Part II |
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| 78) Random Thoughts 79) Concerning Flight 80) Mortal Coil 81) Message in a Bottle 82) Waking Moments 83) Hunters 84) Prey 85) Retrospect 86) The Killing Game - Part I 87) The Killing Game - Part II 88) Vis à Vis |
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89) The Omega Directive (Direttiva
omega) Fifth Season |
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| 97) Extreme Risk 98) In the Flesh 99) Once Upon a Time 100) Nothing Human 101) Timeless 102) Thirty Days 103) Infinite Regress 104) Counterpoint 105) Gravity 106) Latent Image 107) Bride of Chaotica! |
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108) The Fight 109) Bliss 110) The Disease 111) Dark Frontier - Part I 112) Dark Frontier - Part II 113) Course: Oblivion 114) Think Tank 115) Juggernaut 116) Someone to Watch Over Me 117) 11:59 118) Relativity |
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119) Warhead Sixth Season 121) Equinox - Part II |
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127) Riddles 128) One Small Step 129) The Voyager Conspiracy 130) Pathfinder 131) Fair Heaven 132) Tsunkatse 133) Blink of an Eye 134) Virtuoso 135) Collective 136) Memorial 137) Spirit Folk |
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| 138) Ashes to
Ashes 139) Child's Play 140) Good Shepherd 141) The Haunting of Deck Twelve 142) Live Fast and Prosper 143) Fury 144) Muse 145) Life Line 146) Unimatrix Zero - Part I Seventh Season |
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157) Shattered 158) Lineage 159) Repentence 160) Prophecy 161) The void 162) Workforce - Part I 163) Workforce - Part II 164) Human Error 165) Q2 166) Author, author 167) Friendship One |
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168) Natural law 169) Homestead 170) Renaissance Man 171) End Game - Part I 172) End Game - Part II |
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