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Star Trek: Voyager

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Name: Star Trek: Voyager
Abbreviation(s): VOY
Creator: Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor
Date(s): 1995-2001
Medium: Television series
Country of Origin: United States
External Links: IMDB page

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Chakotay/Paris · Fanzines · Janeway/Seven


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Star Trek: Voyager is the fourth live-action television series set in the Star Trek universe. It aired for 172 episodes over 7 seasons, between January, 1995 and May, 2001, and was followed by a short-lived 'Relaunch' series of novels[1] in June, 2003.

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Fandom

Much of early Voyager fandom was centered around the alt.startrek.creative (ASC) usegroup, with a large number of authors migrating to livejournal after the show's conclusion. The fandom was unusual in that it had two main het, slash, and femslash pairings. While many het stories focused on the Janeway/Chakotay and Paris/Torres pairings, Chakotay/Paris with their enemyslash dynamic and Paris/Kim slash had a strong following right from the beginning. After Seven of Nine joined the crew, Janeway/Seven became the pairing that heavily drew Xena/Gabrielle writers into the Voyager fandom and B'Elanna/Seven with their more antagonistic relationship followed soon after.

Endgame

Voyager's final two-part episode proved to be extremely controversial within the fandom. Not only did it feature time travel and a heavy Borg presence, two story tropes often singled out as being over-used throughout the show's run, but it saw the sudden introduction of a romantic relationship between Seven of Nine and Chakotay which was unexpected for everyone as there was no previous interaction that indicated a romantic interest on either side. This development was seen as being little more than a calculated slap in the face of the fans because it killed several popular pairings at the same time. Such was the negative reactions to Endgame among the J/C shippers that a 'Die Seven Die!' challenge to the ASC ultimately garnered over 100 responses[2] and spawned a short-lived sub-genre of Seven death fics.

Discontent was so widespread that a group of respected BNFs decided to collaborate and re-write, not just Endgame, but the entire second half of Voyager's 7th season. The result was the Voyager Virtual Season 7.5 project[3], an acclaimed but ultimately unfinished work spanning three 'seasons'.

Archives

Fanzines

For a list with Voyager zines see: Star Trek: Voyager/Fanzines

References

  1. ↑ Trek Today article on the Voyager relaunch. Published February 16, 2003
  2. ↑ Die, Seven, Die Story Archive
  3. ↑ Virtual Voyager Season 7.5 Project homepage. Accessed Novemeber 2, 2008.
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