Table of Contents It was never a secret in Hollywood that Paramount wanted to start its own broadcast network on the strength of an all-new Star Trek series.
It just took two decades before that ambition would come to fruition. During the late 1970s, Star Trek : Phase II was going to be the show in question before those plans were abandoned and the series was reworked into Star Trek : The Motion Picture. In January 1994, the United Paramount Network became a reality with Star Trek : Voyager as its flagship program.
Related Captain on deck After the previous three Star Trek series put William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and Avery Brooks in the leading roles, Voyager featured a female captain: Elizabeth Janeway. Actress Geneviève Bujold was subsequently cast as the renamed Nicole Janeway, but not for long. It’s unclear why things with Bujold went south quickly, but she left the series after only two days on set.
In response, the people now living under Cardaassian control formed the Marquis to fight for their independence and their adoptive home worlds. That often put the Marquis at odds with the Federation as well. This plotline continued in the first episode of Voyager, as the titular ship pursued a fugitive Marquis vessel before both were stranded in the Delta Quadrant. To survive the perilous journey home, the crew of the Marquis ship was integrated into the crew of Voyager.
Tuvok — Voyager’s resident Vulcan science officer — was undercover with the Marquis at the beginning of the series, but he was loyal to the Federation all along. The last prominent member of the Federation crew was Ensign Harry Kim . Two natives of the Delta Quadrant also joined the crew: Neelix and Kes . However, the most exciting character out of this group was Voyager’s emergency medical holographic program, or The Doctor .
This didn’t always sit well with the rest of the cast, notably Mulgrew. Several cast members have shared stories about tension on the set, which was especially one-sided from Mulgrew to Ryan. Voyager wasn’t the first Star Trek series to have feuds among the performers, but it added an unexpected undercurrent to the scenes between Seven and Janeway, who were on much better terms on-screen.
“Borged” to death Perhaps the biggest misstep of Voyager is that the show’s creative team never understood the risk of going to the same well too many times. The most thrilling villains of Star Trek: The Next Generation were the Borg, an alien collective of cyborgs who attempted to forcibly convert any civilization they deemed worthy of becoming one of them. TNG only used the Borg in 6 episodes across seven seasons and in the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
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