World Famous Comics: Star Trek Voyager - The Complete First Season
Star Trek Voyager - The Complete First Season
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill Directed By: Winrich Kolbe Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Paramount Number of Discs: 5 Number of Items: 5 Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 24, 2004 Running Time: 733 minutes Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 1995
Description: In the first season of STAR TREK: VOYAGER, while in pursuit of a Maquis ship in the Badlands, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager are pulled into the Delta Quadrant. After making a decision that saves an entire species from being destroyed, but leaves both crews stranded, they must join forces to begin a 75-year journey across 70,000 light years of space to return to the Alpha Quadrant, the Federation and home.
Amazon.com: Star Trek: Voyager began life in 1995 with some truly fascinating prospects in its two-hour pilot episode. Opening in the 24th century, a setting contemporary with that of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and carrying over story elements from each of those series, "Caretaker" finds Starfleet Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) stepping into the middle of Federation troubles with the Maquis, an army of rebels violently resisting the interplanetary organization's treaty with the brutal Cardassians. In the process, both Voyager and the Maquis ship under surveillance are accidentally catapulted out of the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant (the familiar stomping grounds of Starfleet personnel) by a benign but dying being called the Caretaker. Voyager ends up in the unexplored Delta Quadrant, some 70,000 light years away.
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
Awful Trek series I tried to give this a chance, but it was hard right off the bat with Janeway's "I prefer to be called 'Captain'". I guess she's just too special to follow the standard all the rest of Starfleet goes by. This just started her off in an unfavorable light and as my least favorite captain of all the series.
What broke the camel's back, however, was the episode in which she berates the crew for trading stories in order to get the tech to get home nearly instantly (granted it did not work). Consider that half the crew were in revolt against Starfleet. Now consider that the captain of the ship they are on refuses to let them get home because she feels trading tecj for stories violates the Prime Directive (the most over used and abused theme in all of Trek). Mutanies have happened over less on ships on which the entire crew was all aligned with the captain at the ofset. Yet the crew of Voyager say, "Oh, OK" and leave it at that. Sorry, but there would have been a full fledged revolt had something like that happened.
I just could not watch again (at least not regularly, I did catch a few here and there in later seasons) after that.
dissapointed I was actually dissapointed with the quality of the first shipment, it had missing disks and disks that didnt belong there. On the other hand the poor quality of the firt order was corrected as quickly as could be expected. Jeff w ruiz
Last of The Great ST Shows What can one say about ST:Voyager? It ran with top notch special effects and a well-selected cast. Though a great fan of DS9, ST:Voyager had a compelling storyline with a twist, a female captain, Katherine Janeway . This concept broke the old Star Trek mold by proving that a woman can be as "cowboy" as Jim Kirk, as "eloquent" as Jean-Luc Picard, and as "unyielding" as Benjamin Sisco. Season One lands the crew of the Intrepid-Class explorer Starship in the depths of the Delta Quadrant after an encounter with a space anomaly while chasing down the Maquis. This season is mostly about the integration and initial difficulties that a ship built for only 6 month deployments has to face over 75 years from home. Considering the lack of decent TV these days, I recommend that Sci-Fi and Drama fans grab ST:Voyager and set sail for the unknown.
Voyager Season one Afeter a long wait for the price to come down, I purchased Season one as a gift. I know it well be much loved.
Excellent Great Season...makes a great gift for the Star Trek fan in your family. Voyager is also a great starter series for any sci-fi fan if they haven't had any previous exposure to Star Trek. Item arrived before scheduled. The gift-wrap option at check-out is totally worth it if you are buying this as a gift.
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