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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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.
Show Synopsis
The show follows the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager, stranded 70 years from home in the Deltra Quadrant, as they meet new species and try to find a way back to the Alpha Quadrant. In the pilot episode, Voyager winds up in the Delta Quadrant while tracking a group of Maquis rebels (a group of renegade Federation citizens), so the Maquis rebels they find are incorporated into the starship's crew. Tensions between the Maquis crew and Starfleet crew feature in early episodes, but this theme is abandoned in later seasons.
Voyager is the first (and only) series in the franchise to feature a female captain as a main character. The fact that the first thing the first female captain does is get lost has resulted in criticism from some fans.
The main characters are
| Name | Position | Loyalty | Species |
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain Kathryn Janeway | starship captain | Starfleet | Human |
| Commander Chakotay | first officer | Maquis | Human |
| Lt. B'Elanna Torres | Chief Engineer | Maquis | Human/Klingon |
| Lt. Commander Tuvok | security chief | Starfleet | Vulcan |
| Lt. Tom Paris | pilot | Starfleet/Maquis | Human |
| Ensign Harry Kim | operations | Starfleet | Human |
| Neelix | chef | private citizen (Delta Quadrant) | Talaxian |
| Kes | hydroponics, medical | private citizen (Delta Quadrant) | Ocampa |
| Seven of Nine | ? | private citizen (Alpha Quadrant) | Borg |
| The Doctor | chief medical officer | Starfleet | hologram |
The new setting was designed to allow for the invention of new species, including new enemies like the Kazon (often described as a pale imitation of the more popular Klingons). However, Q and especially the Borg (both from Star Trek: The Next Generation) also appear, and fans have criticized the show for making the Borg less frightening.
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
- J/7 Faction [1] (Janeway/Seven)
- JuPiter Station (Janeway/Paris)
- Lower Decks
- The Official P/T Collective Archive (Paris/Torres)
- The Paris/Kim Slash Fic Archive
- Paris Nights
- Star Trek: Voyager @ ff.net
- Star Trek: Voyager @ AO3
- The Tom Paris Dorm
- Trekiverse
Fanzines
For a list with Voyager zines see: Star Trek: Voyager/Fanzines
Communities
- HerCaptain a f/f mailing list
References
- ↑ Trek Today article on the Voyager relaunch. Published February 16, 2003
- ↑ Die, Seven, Die Story Archive
- ↑ Virtual Voyager Season 7.5 Project homepage. Accessed Novemeber 2, 2008.
