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 The Heroine ship |  Tom Paris & Harry Kim |  The Maquis |  Seven of Nine |
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| Kate Mulgrew | as | Capt. Kathryn Janeway |
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| Robert Beltran | as | Cmdr. Chakotay |
| Tim Russ | as | Lt. / Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok |
| Robert Duncan MacNeill | as | Lt. / Ens. Tom Paris |
| Roxann Dawson | as | Lt. B'Elanna Torres |
| Garrett Wang | as | Ens. Harry Kim |
| Jennifer Lien | as | Kes (series 1-3) |
| Jeri Ryan | as | Seven of Nine (series 4-7) |
| Ethan Phillips | as | Neelix |
| Robert Picardo | as | Emergency Medical Hologram |
| Majel Barrett | as | Starfleet computer voice |
| Dwight Schultz | as | Lt. Reginald Barclay |
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| Marina Sirtis | as | Cmdr. Deanna Troi |
| Richard McGonagle | as | Lt. Cmdr. Peter Harkins |
| Warren Munson / Richard Herd | as | Adm. Owen Paris |
| Josh Clark | as | Lt. Joseph Carey |
| Tarik Ergin | as | Lt. Ayala |
| Alexander Enberg | as | Ens. Vorik |
| Raphael Sbarge | as | Crewman Michael Jonas |
| Martha Hackett | as | Seska |
| Anthony deLongis | as | Jal Cullah |
| Susanna Thompson | as | Borg Queen |
After getting trapped in the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Starship Voyager have to find their way back home again.
The 3rd show in the Rick Berman era, Voyager is largely regarded as the point at which the studio started to take the property for granted. It was just automatically assumed that, when The Next Generation ended, something would step in to fill the void, and that was Voyager. The first series already under development at the same time the last episodes for TNG were under production, Voyager's only link to TNG is the Maquis crew that they're sent to arrest in 101. Well, and the fact that all their sets are redresses of TNG sets. Otherwise, the show is a complete reboot of the Star Trek premise. Deep Space Nine's titular station appears briefly in 101 and Voyager's EMH gets introduced to the Dominion War as a concept in series 4, but there is no other connection between these two shows, any more than CSI was connected to CSI: Miami.
I said on the DS9 page that I'd been watching that show on repeat since 2011. Well, I've been watching Voyager since 2009. I went to the library to interview for a job there during the first summer break after high school and, on my way out, I noticed the 4th series box set on their central DVD display. I got the DVDs and the job, actually. It was while I was processing hold requests that I discovered the library had the entire Star Trek canon on DVD, which is how this whole "annual rewatch" thing got started in the first place.
I get a little tired of Voyager after a while, but I remember I was held spellbound by it the first time I saw it all, because this was the show my mum never let me stay up to watch on Sunday evening. It was on at 9pm, far too late for a young child like me. Even though she would occasionally record them to videocassette (under duress, as there was something she preferred to watch on a different station), I was only peripherally aware of Voyager until finding it on DVD. So, we have to consider that in the star-rating, really don't we?
7 / 9 stars
It's like all those ratings websites that give 11 stars to This is Spinal Tap, I'm giving Voyager 7 of 9 stars. That roughly equalises out to 8.5 of 10, which is more or less what I would have given this show anyway. Like I said, I loved watching this the first year I saw it. Obviously, it's a TV show, so there's going to be a few misses here and there, but as long as you don't expect Captain Kirk or even Captain Picard, it's an excellent show.