
#VOYAGER SEASON 4 SERIES#
Although all the regular episodes of the series were originally intended to each have a teaser and five acts, Rick Berman announced – on Monday, 5 December, 1994 – that the regular episodes would be changing to a four-act format.

Four VOY Season 2 episodes – " Projections", " Elogium", " Twisted", and " The 37's" – were filmed as part of Season 1, but were held over to air during the second season.This season was broadcast concurrently with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3.Kes' mental abilities begin to assert themselves in " Time and Again" and " Cathexis", and The Doctor (EMH) slowly begins to experience new emotions, and gain new rights, privileges, and responsibilities in " Eye of the Needle" and " Heroes and Demons". Neelix loses a lung in " Phage" and faces up to the loss of his family, and his species' virtual genocide in " Jetrel". Lieutenant Tom Paris is falsely accused of murder in " Ex Post Facto", Ensign Harry Kim experiences death in " Emanations", while Lieutenant Tuvok learns to adapt in " Learning Curve".
#VOYAGER SEASON 4 CODE#
B'Elanna Torres becomes the ship's new Chief Engineer in " Parallax", reveals more of her Klingon character in " Faces", and begins to adjust to Starfleet's code of conduct in " Prime Factors". Chakotay's heritage and relationship with Janeway are highlighted in " Parallax", " The Cloud", " State of Flux", and " Cathexis". Crucially, Janeway's decision to maintain Voyager as a Starfleet vessel is brought sharply into focus when a member of the former Maquis crew, Ensign Seska, is revealed to be a Cardassian spy, and in a showdown with Janeway, defects to the Kazon.Įach of the primary cast members gets a chance to develop their characters in the first season. The Kazon reappear and prove to be a powerful nemesis, while in " Phage" an additional threat is introduced, in the disease ravaging organ-harvesting Vidiians. The consequences of isolation and loss on the crew begin to develop in " The Cloud" and " Eye of the Needle", and the crew are also teased with the possibility of returning home several times throughout the first season, only to have it cruelly snatched away. Initial tension and mistrust between the opposing Starfleet and Maquis crews is explored in " Parallax", " Prime Factors", and " Learning Curve".

The firefight which ensues results in both the destruction of the Caretaker's "array" and the renegade Maquis ship in an act of self-sacrifice, the only way for Voyager's crew to return to the Alpha Quadrant is lost.Īfter incorporating the Maquis crew, as well as a Talaxian, Neelix, and an Ocampa, Kes, Voyager sets a course for home. After witnessing the death of the Caretaker, Janeway makes the decision to destroy his technology to prevent it falling into the hands of a local malevolent species known as the Kazon. The Caretaker confides in Janeway that he is dying and requires a mate to continue caring for a species who live nearby known as the Ocampa.

After locating the missing Maquis ship nearby, and learning of the enormity of their predicament, the crew ascertains that an extra-galactic entity called the Caretaker is responsible for pulling them across the galaxy in an attempt to find a compatible species to mate with. While en route to investigate Tuvok's disappearance, the maiden voyage of the Federation starship USS Voyager ends in disaster as the ship and her crew are pulled seventy thousand light years into the far reaches of the Delta Quadrant. Captain Kathryn Janeway's chief of security, Lieutenant Tuvok, has disappeared while involved in a counter-espionage mission aboard a Maquis ship, whose last known position was somewhere in the Badlands.
