Emanations – A rather bizarre episode primarily about the burial rituals of a culture in which traditional dictates corpses to be swallowed by a vacule, which deposits them on nearby asteroids. (So to speak.) The accused is Paris, who was speedily convicted and given the trippy punishment of having to experience the victim’s death regularly for the rest of his life. Ex Post Facto – A murder mystery for Tuvok and whoa, does he kill it. Eye of the Needle – The needle’s eye of the title is a tiny wormhole though which Voyager cannot return to the Alpha Quadrant, but does make contact with a Romulan ship there – but it’s not even that simple for the hard-luck Voyager crew… ***Ĩ. Unfortunately, Janeway et al had panicked and harmed the being. The Cloud – Voyager enters a nebula which turns out to be a living organism. Neelix has his lungs stolen, yet stubbornly refuses to die. Phage – Introducing the Vidiians, creepy organ-stealing dudes suffering from a nearly as creepy disease called the Phage. Twisty-turny stuff that maintains the suspense. Paris are sent back two days into the past to a planet which is – you guessed it – two days away from Armageddon. Time and Again – And another temporal paradox! Janeway and Lt. Parallax – The unsettled Voyager crew deals with a wacky time paradox, though much time is devoted to a subplot of Janeway choosing between B’Elanna and Lt.
ROXANN DAWSON VOYAGER SEASON 4 SERIES
The weakest of any inaugural Star Trek series episode. The ship is suddenly hurled 70,000 light-years from home, where they encounter not quite an Insane God!, but more of a Terminal God. Commander Chakotay, B’Elanna Torres, Seska) immediately take a backseat to introduction of Captain Janeway and her own Voyager crew. All this backstory, all well as characters from the Maquis band (e.g. “Caretaker” – It all begins with text (always a bad sign) which explains the story of the Maquis and their, likesay, uneasy relationship with the Federation.
Star Trek: Voyager season 1 – Is the first of many years’ worth of blunted potential.ġ-2. At just sixteen episodes, this is the shortest season since the animated series days. Even more puzzling is the immediate introduction of a complex backstory involving a small Maquis warship and immediately installed the idea of integrating Federation and Maquis crews these seemingly intractable issues are mostly blown away by episode four, season one.Ībout the best we can say for Voyager’s inaugural year is that a writer’s strike ultimately truncated the season, thereby limiting the obvious awkward growing pains.
The colorless Chakotays, Harry Kims and B’Elanna Torreses of Voyager’s first episodes are pretty much what you get in season 7. On the other hand, from our comfortable viewpoint in the 21st century, Star Trek: Voyager season 1 ultimately bears more similarity to season 7 than not. Star Trek Guide has mentioned it before, but for no other ST series does it hold truer: ST series takes time to find their way, and the first season is typically hardly an exemplar of the given series’ final production run.