Star Trek Voyager - The Complete First Season

So much seemed dramatically promising in this debut, especially the unwieldy alliance of Starfleet regulars and hostile Maquis, and the likelihood that a lifetime spent in isolation, trying to get home, would lead to the development of a self-contained society on the ship, yet Voyager never entirely made up its mind what it was supposed to be about. The curiously cheesy sets and fascinating, progressive management style of Janeway (half mommy, half taskmaster) were also new developments in Star Trek culture. As the 16-episode season continued, character backstories were developed in such episodes as "The Cloud" (arguably the best episode of the season), "Eye of the Needle" (underscoring Janeway and the crew's sadness), "State of Flux" (in which a search for a traitor reveals a past romance between Commander Chakotay, played by Robert Beltran, and sexy Bajoran engineer Seska, played by Martha Hackett), and "Jetrel" (which explores the character of Neelix, the Talaxian played by Ethan Phillips, during a parable about scientific ethics and moral responsibility).

Among other notable episodes, "Phage" strikes a nice balance among character development, story hook, and moral and emotional conflict when Neelix is literally robbed of his lungs by the Vidiians, a once-civilized people who are combating a deadly disease called the Phage by stealing organs. (The disease would return in "Faces," a fine showcase for Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres.) "Emanations" stirred controversy among the series' producers and some fans for its philosophical look at death, and "Time and Again" is a unique time-travel story in which Janeway and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) get caught in a subspace fracture that places them just hours before they know a planet is going to be destroyed. In "Prime Factors," latent tensions among Voyager personnel erupts into serious conflict, an issue revisited in the season finale, "Learning Curve." Despite a pat ending that resolves the Maquis conflict much too easily, the episode drives home the fact that Voyager and its crew are all alone, making the most of a difficult predicament. --Tom Keogh and Jeff Shannon

Product Description
A Starfleet ship is 75 years away from the Federation, and must cooperate with rebels to find their way home.

Anyways, I enjoy Voyager very much. I started to watch it after I started watching Enterprise (since the first Episode) and I'm now hooked. I stay up to 12:30am to watch it on UPN! People say Janeway plays a bad captain, but I disagree... she is a wonderful actress and I love how she interacts with the crew, especially 7 of 9. I can't wait until this DVD comes out, definatly a must have for Voyager fans!


I LOVE VOYAGER! BEST STAR TREK EVER!!   January 7, 2003
36 out of 40 found this review helpful

I think that Voyager is the best Star Trek series ever! TOS is good but not the best, TNG was really good, I thought it was the best until I saw Voyager. DS9 a little to calm. Enterprise is horrible!!
Great things about Voyager:
1. Finally a female captain.
2. More then one plot in each episode, making it more complicated.
3. All the characters are different. (Seven and Tuvok can be a lot alike but what can you expect from a ex-borg and a Vulcan?!?!)
4. New aliens!! At last!!
5. Morals.
6. Janeway is the perfect captain, part Picard part Sisko, part Kirk.
7. Out in the Delta quatrent no orders from Starfleet!!
8. Good character devolment. (Neelix can really get on my nerves but he is very realilistic. I know people like him, several.)

I could go on forever on how great Voyager is. They also have to only theme song in Star Trek that I don't have cover my ears when I hear.

I really think that they should make a movie on Voyager.

PLOT: If you haven't seen the 1st episode DON'T READ!
Captain Kathryn Janeway is trying to get her officer Tuvok back. Tuvok was spying on the Maquis. Pick up Tom Paris from a penal coliny in New Zealand. Can't find Tuvok. All of a sudden, they are in the Delta Quadrent. They find out that the Caretaker brought them there and also brought the Maquis ship that Tuvok was on. Meet up with a Talixian named Neelix and he makes them rescue this Ocampa girl named Kes. The Caretaker is the only person who can take them home. The Caretaker dies and Janeway blows up he's equitment to bring them home for reasons I am not going to say. She meets up with Tuvok but many of her crew have died. The captain of the Maquis ship Chackoty becomes 1st officer and B'Elanna becomes Cheif enginer. Tom Paris becomes "helm boy" and the two ships come together and go onto Voyager for one reason. To get home. Back to Earth.

I love this series and I really hope you watch it.
Live long and Prosper!


PLEASE release Voyager on DvD   September 22, 2003
21 out of 24 found this review helpful

Voyager has become my absolute favorite show of all time. I would never call myself obsessed (as I haven't gotten that way over media since I was a teenager), but I can't get enough of Voyager. I grew up on TNG and was a fan, but when I saw Voyager I fell in love with the crew. It had a much more personal and informal feeling compared to past Star Treks. I feel very close and connected to the characters when I watch them and I always feel sad when the credits begin to roll because I don't want to leave them.

What's so enthralling about Voyager is that it had a focus plot for the entire duration of its run which really made me feel like I was striving towards a common goal with the crew as opposed TNG where most the episodes were seperate adventures (which Voyager had too, but while maintaining the same objective at the end of the day). I'm glad that Enterprise is taking this cue from Voyager and having a focus plot (for at least a season). That's what's going to keep viewers coming back every week (and Enterprise could use all the help it can get in the plot department).

Although there are Star Trek fans out there who snub Voyager for straying from the path of past Star Treks and having a largely dominant female crew (although the men out weigh the women in numbers), but the female characters were so strong and well done with such character that they often outshone the male crew members (not to say I don't like the men too). At first Janeway got on my nerves because I thought they were making her like every other boring female in power who is trying to make it in a man's world, but I grew to see her sensitivity, ambition, strength, persistence, compassion, and noble leadership skills (this was largely due to Kate Mulgrew's excellent portrayal of the character).

I think Voyager is probably the only television show I would absolutely have to own on DvD. I really hope it doesn't get overlooked and that it will get put out soon. I will be rushing to my computer to click buy as soon as it does!


Back to the Delta Quadrant   January 15, 2004
Adam Dukovich
24 out of 28 found this review helpful

Although I have been critical of Voyager in the past, I must confess that it was nothing short of impressive in its first three seasons. The show had so much promise, its huge story arcs and original concept made it a show to watch. The first season had the show proving itself quite nicely, with riveting science fiction and the intense drama of two disparate crews trying to work together. This show certainly had the makings of a champion, and although it certainly didn't fulfill all hopes, it had more than a few good moments.

Voyager's first season put exposition on hold to give us great stories. The approach paid off, as many were hooked on the show from the beginning. One of the show's greatest strengths was combining human drama and science fiction in such a way that the season never got formulaic, and we certainly saw that here. "Caretaker" was a magnificent pilot that nicely set up the show, introduced the crew's principal enemies and some of the tumultuous politics of the Delta Quadrant, and had quite a bit of excitement and suspense. From there, we saw episodes dealing with classic Star Trek motifs like time travel (Time and Again), unusual life forms (The Cloud), and justice (Ex Post Facto, one of the season's best shows). The show also tackled unfamiliar territory, such as genocide (Jetrel, another of the season's best shows) and treason (State of Flux, where Seska defects to the Kazon). All the while we got to know (albeit less than in the second season) the various officers of the ship: Janeway, the stern but optimistic captain (and, in the first year, far from the sanctimonious shrew she became); Paris, the navigator and funnyman (he provided the best comic relief) and his friend Kim, the homesick wet-behind-the-ears recent Academy graduate; Tuvok, the wry Vulcan; the Doctor, a crotchety hologram (and also very amusing); and Neelix and Kes, the pair of aliens along for the ride. The first season did a good job of introducing them, although it wasn't until the second season that they really became more concrete.

The DVD is loaded with extras, probably to compensate for the fact that the set is exorbitantly priced. In any case, it's a must have for a collector or a fan.


Star Trek Voyager is the Greatest!   September 30, 2002
Teresa C Stradinger (Fort Atkinson, WI United States)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful

Voyager is still my favorite TV show. The characters, the ship and their adventures as they try to get back to the Alpha quadrant were, and still are, very engaging. It's easy to see how Reginald Barkley became obsessed with Voyager and her crew.

I would buy the whole series if it were available on DVD!