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Star Trek: Voyager – Alliances (Review)

This September and October, we’re taking a look at the 1995 to 1996 season of Star Trek , including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and  Star Trek: Voyager . Check back daily for the latest review.

One of the more persistent and convincing criticisms of Star Trek: Voyager is the idea that it was very narrative conservative; that the show got comfortable playing out the familiar formula that had been established by Star Trek: The Next Generation , and so never attempted to innovate or experiment in the way that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (or eventually Star Trek: Enterprise ) did. This is a perfectly valid criticism of the show as a whole, but it does ignore some of the weird tensions that played out across the first two seasons.

It is fair to say that Voyager never truly experimented. However, there are several moments in the first two seasons where it looks like the show was considering doing something unique or unprecedented. The show walked up to the edge, looking up and down; it never quite made the leap, but it seemed to weigh the possibility of jumping headlong into uncharted territory. However, it ultimately only dipped its toes in the water before getting cold feet and returning to the comfort of the familiar.

“Everyone liked Godfather III, right?”

The sad truth about the second season of Voyager is that the show made a number of attempts to do something different or unique, only to botch each and every one of those attempts so completely that the production team learned not to even try. The second season’s more adventurous creative decisions all ended in humiliation and farce, explaining why the show desperately sought the warm blanket of a familiar format and an established template. After all, it was the more conventional episodes of the second season that had been (relatively) well received.

The second season of Voyager turned the process of trying something moderately ambitious and failing spectacularly into something of an artform. Of course, given the simmering tensions behind the scenes, it often seemed like the show wanted to fail. Michael Piller desperately wanted to do new things, only to meet resistance from his fellow producers and writing staff. Writers like Kenneth Biller would publicly criticise assignments they had been handed, offering a sense of just how much faith the staff had in these ideas.

“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry…”

Alliances marks perhaps the most ambitious element (and most spectacular failure) of the second season of Voyager . It is the centrepiece of Michael Piller’s attempts to develop the Kazon into a credible (and convincing) alien threat, while also setting up a recurring arc that will allow Piller to push Tom Paris into the role of “lovable rogue” of which Piller was so fond. These were elements that excited Piller a great deal, but left most of the rest of the production team relatively cold.

So there is a great deal of irony in the fact that Alliances is ultimately written by Jeri Taylor, who was increasingly at loggerheads with Piller over the direction of Voyager . In light of that context, it makes sense that Alliances is an episode that aggressively critiques its own existence. Janeway spends most of the episode frustrated at the fact that the story is happening at all, and Alliances builds towards a climax that seems designed to convince the viewer that this whole idea is misconceived on just about every possible level.

Blooming disaster…

One of the more interesting aspects of the creative conflict over the direction of the second season of Voyager is that there is no clear right and wrong party. Piller was trying to innovate and experiment, but his experiments tended to be spectacular failures. Piller is a producer who thought that Tattoo was a good idea, and that the episode was boldly pushing the franchise forward. It is perfectly understandable that the writers on staff would question his direction and guidance.

Jeri Taylor might have been advocating for the conservative and formulaic approach that would come to define Voyager , but it is hard to vilify any creative voice advocating for less exposure of the Kazon. Quite simply, the Kazon are the most spectacularly racist Star Trek aliens since the Ferengi. While the Ferengi were ultimately redeemed (somewhat) by Ira Steven Behr, it seems unlikely that Michael Piller was going to let his staff radically reimagine the Kazon to the extent that they might seem less like racial caricatures.

Janeway feels be-Trabe-d…

The unfortunate racial subtext of the Kazon has been bubbling away since they were introduced in Caretaker as a generic “primitive” species to play up the “western” sensibilities of the new Star Trek show. The Kazon at once embodied stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans in classic westerns and also reflected contemporary anxieties about “gang” culture in Los Angeles itself. The writing staff on Voyager was predominantly white and middle-class, so that intersection of racial “other” went about as well as one might expect.

The Kazon are a bunch of primitive savages without the technology of the explorers who have arrived in their territory. Voyager and its crew are presented as a civilised and progressive influence on Delta Quadrant politics; the Kazon are consistently portrayed as a barbaric and backwards species who pose a threat to everything around them. In Mortal Coil , Seven of Nine makes a passive-aggressive dig at the Kazon, suggesting that they are “unworthy of assimilation.” She ponders, “Why assimilate a species that would detract from perfection?”

“It’s on, like Kaz-on!”

The Kazon were originally conceived as a vehicle through which the production team could explore the increasing gang violence in contemporary urban society; given that Star Trek was produced in Los Angeles, this made a great deal of sense. As Jeri Taylor explained in Captains’ Logs Supplemental :

We felt with the Kazon we needed to address the tenor of our times and what […] was happening in our cities and recognizing a source of danger and social unrest. We wanted to do that metaphorically.

The Kazon might be named as an allusion to “the Kazan Phenomenon” , but they are clearly rooted in Los Angeles gang culture. (Early production documents suggest sects like “the Crips” and “the Bloods.” ) The Kazon were introduced in Caretaker at around the same time as  Deep Space Nine was dealing with the issue in The Abandoned .

Slaves to fate…

This is already a highly questionable creative choice. Street gangs in Los Angeles were frequently the subject of sensationalist news coverage , presented in a manner that tended to heighten racial tensions in the community . The reality of the situation was often more complex and nuanced than the twenty-four-hour news cycle would allow; the emergence of gang culture was rooted in all manner of complex socio-economic factors that were less compelling than urban legends about crazy initiations or reports of drive-by shootings.

All indications are that the production staff probably should have been quite careful when dealing with the racial subtext that came with the Kazon; they were obvious stand-ins for a contemporary subculture that was associated in popular media with young black men. As a result, the decision to portray the Kazon as inherently violent primitives was a risky proposition at best. It suggested that the production team were rather tone-deaf when it came to issues of racial politics and subtext.

“Racial caricatures? Never!”

The second season decided to double-down on this uncomfortable metaphor by revealing that the Kazon had a history of slavery. Kenneth Biller prepared a memo outlining Kazon history, explaining that a race known as “the Trabe” had kept the Kazon as slaves until the Kazon rebelled against their masters and vanquished them. This is a rather awkward addition to an already loaded racial metaphor; the addition of slavery to the history of the Kazon even more explicitly ties them to the African American experience.

In this context, there is absolutely no justification for the decision to repeatedly and consistently portray the Kazon as violent savages incapable of self-government. The treatment of the Kazon in episodes like State of Flux and Alliances seems to suggest that maybe the Delta Quadrant was a much safer place when the Trabe kept the Kazon as slaves; the Kazon seem barely capable of taking care of themselves, they are a major risk to just about any civilised society in the region.

“Who died? … Oh, right.”

Alliances allows the show to compare and contrast the Trabe with the Kazon. The Kazon are repeatedly and consistently portrayed as backwards. Maj Cullah is repeatedly portrayed as misogynistic in his attitude towards Janeway. ( “I won’t have a woman dictate terms to me,” he insists.) At the same time, Cullah is completely oblivious to how thoroughly Seska is manipulating him. While the Trabe share fine wine with crew of Voyager, Neelix meets his old Kazon friend at a strip club; that friend is unable to solve a basic trigonometry problem.

In contrast, the Trabe are portrayed as much more civilised and advanced. “They produced scholars and artists who were widely admired and their technology was among the finest in the quadrant,” Neelix tells Janeway. Mabus enjoys a nice civilised meal with the crew, in which he is allowed to argue that the Trabe were somewhat justified in “protecting” themselves from the Kazon. “I was told they were violent and dangerous, and had to be kept isolated so they wouldn’t get loose and kill us. Which is exactly what they did, but we brought it on ourselves.”

“But, hey, we’re better dinner guests… right?”

There is something quite reactionary about all of this, as if Alliances is suggesting that the Kazon were better kept enslaved. Even allowing for the end of the episode, the script is sympathetic to Mabus and the Trabe. “Most of the Trabe who persecuted the Kazon are either dead or old men by now,” Mabus tells Janeway over dinner. “Most of us were children when the uprising occurred, and our children are innocent, but the Kazon’s desire for revenge is as strong as ever.” He makes it sound almost unreasonable that the Kazon would harbour resentment and anger.

There are obvious uncomfortable parallels running through all this. Race can be a particularly complicated and sensitive issue in the United States, but Alliances is blunt and offensive on almost every level. It seems like the Trabe were entirely right to keep the Kazon in bondage, given the violence that occurred when they were released; when Mabus complains about the Kazon’s reluctance to move past atrocities that occurred outside living memory, he is repeating a lot of the rhetoric that attempts to divorce current racial tensions from their historical context.

“We’ll meet in approximately twenty hours. It’s best not to question the geography.”

To be fair, Alliances makes it pretty clear that the Trabe are not nice people. Mabus conspires to assassinate the leadership of the Kazon factions in a sequence that borrows rather directly from The Godfather: Part III . However, it does not use Janeway’s experience with the Trabe to inform her other dealings with the Kazon. Indeed, there is a rather unfortunate subtext to Janeway’s different behaviour towards the Trabe as compared to the Kazon. Janeway is willing to ally with former slavers, but finds the prospect of dealing with former slaves “distasteful.”

As such, Alliances becomes a story about how Janeway finds it easier to trust a bunch of white former slave-owners than a group of dark-skinned former slaves. Of course, it is ultimately revealed that Janeway is wrong to trust anybody , but Jeri Taylor refuses to allow that Janeway made any errors in judgment. The message that Janeway learns at the end is not that you shouldn’t trust people who owned slaves; instead, Janeway learns that you shouldn’t trust anybody, not even nice middle-class white people.

The hovering Kazon Raider made the rest of the delegates a little uncomfortable. And dead. But mostly uncomfortable.

Which, of course, suggests another problem with Alliances . Even aside from the uncomfortable racial subtext, the episode is written terribly . The script is credited to Jeri Taylor, but it feels like she drew the short straw. Various elements of the plot seem to reflect Michael Piller’s aesthetic: the emphasis on the Kazon, the moral ambiguity, the sense of compromise, the desire to play up the conflict between the Maquis and the Starfleet crew. These are all elements more in line with Piller’s vision of the show than Taylor’s.

As a result, it seems like Taylor absolutely skewers the very idea of Alliances . With the Kazon growing ever more bold in their attacks on the ship, the crew of Voyager find themselves wondering if their idealistic principles are outdated and irrelevant. Starfleet regulations may not have been written for this particular situation, so why not compromise? The crew are dying in this region of uncharted space, perhaps it is time to accept that tough decisions have to be made. It is a very Deep Space Nine set up. However, Jeri Taylor is not at all interested in any of that.

“You can tell I’m allied with Mabus because he’s the whitest guy in the room.”

At its core, Alliances is the story about how Janeway thinks that this particular plot is a bad idea. While everyone around her convinces her to at least try an alternative approach, Janeway remains steadfast in her absolutist rejection of what she sees as a violation of the crew’s core values. Reluctantly and half-heartedly, Janeway attempts a compromise to appease her restless crew and save lives. However, the entire episode is just a set-up to prove Janeway right. She even gets an “I told you so” speech at the end.

Alliances is an episode entirely structured to validate Janeway’s black-and-white morality. At Crewman Bendara’s funeral, Ensign Hogan asks Janeway what she plans to do about the situation. Janeway assures the young officer that he can speak freely; he does so. Almost immediately, Janeway outlines her position. “I appreciate your concerns, crewman, but let me make it absolutely clear. I’ll destroy this ship before I turn any part of it over to the Kazon.” It is more than just an ironic foreshadowing of Basics, Part I . It is a statement of principle.

“The Kazon are dying!” “Let them die!”

Janeway is incredibly stubborn and self-righteous here. While still in earshot of Hogan, Janeway practically snaps at Chakotay, “So that’s how the Maquis would do it?” The script for Alliances brings up the conflict between the Maquis and the Starfleet crew for the first time in what feels like ages. Chakotay argues that the desire to strike a deal with the Kazon comes from the Maquis crewmembers. “A lot of the Maquis feel the Federation abandoned them years ago. You may be willing to die for Federation principles, but they’re not.”

In a way, this foreshadows the issues with Alliances . It seems strange that the Maquis should be the only members of the crew vocal on the subject; surely some Starfleet officers have to feel the same way? If Tuvok feels comfortable enough to suggest the alliance to Janeway, then surely there must be a large number of Starfleet personnel who would support a proposed alliance with the Kazon? Either way, Janeway is immediately paranoid. “I can’t believe you’d support that man’s position,” she accuses Chakotay.

This funeral really blows…

“I don’t,” Chakotay responds. “But isn’t there something in between your position and his?” It is a perfectly reasonable and justifiable position. After all, Star Trek has always been built around the idea of integration and understanding. Deep Space Nine and Voyager were airing in an increasingly multicultural world. Would it be so bad for Janeway to learn to work with outsiders; whether those outsiders were the Maquis on her crew or the Kazon in the Delta Quadrant?

Tuvok makes a similar appeal to Janeway, drawing on the history of the Star Trek franchise. “When I was a young man, a great visionary named Spock recommended an alliance between the Federation and the Klingon empire,” Tuvok recalls, another nice piece of foreshadowing of future developments. Tuvok is entirely right here; if the Federation can make peace with the Klingons, why can’t Voyager make peace with the Kazon? It makes Janeway uncomfortable, but all world-changing ideas must seem frightening at first.

Spaced out…

However, Alliances eventually validates Janeway’s perspective. She is right; everybody else is wrong. Alliances suggests that it is impossible to make peace with the Kazon, and that it is impossible to trust anybody in the Delta Quadrant. It is a ruthlessly cynical ending, but one that is quite jarring. The ending of Alliances should be a bleak and nihilistic rejection of the franchise’s utopian idealism, given that the crew just learned that they are truly and completely alone in this strange part of the universe. Instead, Taylor’s script plays it as an upbeat ending.

“This appears to be a region of space that doesn’t have many rules,” Janeway tells her crew. “But I believe we can learn something from the events that have unfolded. In a part of space where there are few rules, it’s more important than ever that we hold fast to our own. In a region where shifting allegiances are commonplace we have to have something stable to rely on. And we do. The principles and ideals of the Federation. As far as I’m concerned, those are the best allies we could have.” Janeway was right; it’s easiest to stick to the principles.

Cullah and Seska. The new sitcom, coming this fall on UPN.

Of course, this all misses the point of principles. People don’t adhere to principles because they make things easy. The true test of a principle is not whether you would adhere to it if the alternative were chaos and horror; the true test of a principle is whether you adhere to it when it makes things tougher and harder. Janeway’s decision to stand by her principles would be easier to admire if the entire forty-five minute episode weren’t a Rube Goldberg machine designed to prove that everybody should have just listened to Janeway in the first place.

Discussing Janeway’s reluctance to break from protocol, Chakotay observes, “Frankly I’m not sure they were ever intended for situations like this.” Janeway responds, “I haven’t seen any evidence that they’ve let us down.” She is entirely right; but only because Voyager has been structured so as to give the crew a seven-year pleasure cruise. It doesn’t take courage or conviction to stick to your principles when life is easy. Voyager has made sure that its characters have never been hungry, never been stranded, never been desperate. Principles are easy in those cases.

A puzzling alliance…

After all, the teaser to Alliances opens with the ship under siege from the Kazon. Voyager takes a pounding; a crewmember is killed, consoles explode, smoke billows. It really feels like the ship is in trouble, as the crew read out damage reports. However, the damage is not substantial. No character we care about is harmed during the teaser; everything is conveniently tidied away after the credits have rolled. Half-way through the episode, there is absolutely no indication that the crew have been under strain at all. As such, it is hard to take the pressure or anxiety seriously.

It doesn’t help matters that Alliances has the crew compromising their principles in the stupidest manner possible. The crew doesn’t fail because the idea is bad, the crew fail because the execution is spectacularly awful. In a way, it feels like the production team are holding up a mirror to the second season as a whole; the second season of Voyager is populated with interesting ideas that are realised in the most atrocious manner possible. Here, it feels like Janeway is actively sabotaging her attempts to strike an alliance, so that she can ultimately be vindicated.

Chakotay is a pretty impressive eugooglist…

Why would Voyager consider an alliance with the Nistrim? The ship has a long record of dealing with Maj Cullah and Seska, and knows that they cannot be trusted; in fact, Seska sexually assaulted one of the senior staff. Of all the other Kazon sects out there, the Nistrim are the least trustworthy and would be the hardest with which to deal. On a similar note, why ally with the Trabe? How does Janeway imagine that the Kazon will react once she shows up aligned with their former slaveowners?

Maj Cullah is pretty much a two-dimensional villain, but he gets perhaps the most pressing line of the episode. “I find you nothing but a hypocrite, Captain, allying yourselves to the greatest villains this quadrant has ever known,” he remarks. “If this is where your revered Federation values have taken you, I want no part of it.” The episode suggests that Janeway was wrong to compromise her values at all, but it does seem like she made the worst possible choice she could make in choosing to violate those principles. Just to repeat, Janeway allies with slavers.

It is so tough being right all the time.

(The script tries to suggest that this is inevitably where compromise leads. When Chakotay raises the obvious objections to allying with Seska, Janeway reflects, “You can’t have it both ways Commander. If you want to get in the mud with the Kazon you can’t start complaining that you might get dirty.” Of course, this is a rather glib deflection; it is quite easy to set limits on just how dirty you are willing to become, and what compromises you are willing to make. Still, the issue is not about degrees of compromise; instead, these are simply stupid decisions.)

This is to say nothing of just how hypocritical Janeway can be. Her refusal to parlay with the Kazon in Alliances stands at odds with her willingness to negotiate with the Borg in Scorpion, Part I . The show hasn’t yet allowed Janeway’s inconsistencies and contradictions to reach critical mass; however, episodes like Alliances are establishing firm absolutist principles that the show will violate with increasing frequency in the years ahead. Janeway’s self-righteousness is not an appealing character trait, but neither is the fickleness set up here.

“Slaver” is such a harsh term…

In a way, the way that Janeway botches (or sabotages) her attempts at moral compromise reflects the way that Voyager is botching its own attempts at embracing serialisation. The Kazon arc running through the second season of Voyager is perhaps the longest arc running through the seven seasons of Voyager . It is, in no uncertain terms, a complete travesty. It is a disaster on a truly epic scale, and seems quite likely to have contributed to Michael Piller’s departure from the franchise.

Alliances itself has some issues that result from botched serialisation, even if it is only really setting the larger arc in motion. Most obviously, the idea that the Kazon attacks on the ship are taking their toll on crew morale seems to come out of nowhere. Crew morale seemed pretty okay in Resistance and Prototype ; it certainly doesn’t take a knock in Threshold . This is the first indication that the show has given of a recurring Kazon threat since Manoeuvres . (Which, of course, reopens the whole “how big is Kazon space?” or “how slow is Voyager moving?” debate.)

“We hardly knew ye. No, really.”

Similarly, the plot is spurred by the death of Crewman Bendera. He is a character who does not have any lines; he dies in the teaser, having never appeared on the show before. It is hard to get too shaken up by all this, despite laboured exposition about his history with Chakotay or Torres. Voyager does not have a recurring cast with the same depth or nuance as Deep Space Nine . Joseph Carey has already vanished into history. Alliances introduces Hogan and Jonas; the two characters recur throughout the season, but are both dead by the end of the production year.

In short Voyager is very bad at serialisation. It is a problem that becomes more pronounced as the Kazon arc kicks into high gear. The show awkward shoehorns stilted scenes into standalone episodes, refusing to let organic character development or integrated plot threads map out a larger story. The second season’s Kazon arc is handled horribly, perhaps contributing to the decision to steer away from longer plot arcs in the later seasons of the show; it is understandable that the production team would not want to repeat the experience.

Frazzled…

In his infamous exit interview, Ronald D. Moore was extremely critical of the lack of serialisation on Voyager . He argued that the show was patronising and condescending to its viewers :

It’s very hard to write in continuity, because of the nature of television. You are writing ahead, and you are writing at the moment, and you are changing things in post. It’s really hard to keep all the ducks in a row, which we found at Deep Space Nine. In that last ten-episode run, where it was almost completely serialized, that’s a tough act to carry off. But it’s also worth the effort, because the payoff is the world has more validity. The audience can sense there is truth in it. It’s a better show, and it will last longer as a result. If you are really just so concerned that this week’s episode won’t make sense because you didn’t see that episode three years ago, why can’t Star Trek do like Ally McBeal, or The Practice, or ER, all the big successful shows do. Put a little recap at the top of the show: ‘Previously, on Star Trek: Voyager…’ — even if it’s an episode from two years ago. You just quickly get the audience up to speed, because the audience is not stupid. The audience has watched television for a long time. They understand that they have missed some things, that perhaps this is a reference to a show that they didn’t see. They aren’t just going to throw up their hands and move on. If you are pre-supposing that, you are aiming towards the person that is grabbing a beer, and isn’t really paying attention, and is walking out of the room every ten minutes and coming back and sitting down; all you are going to do is dumb down the show. You are reducing it to its lowest common denominator, and what’s the point of that? What do you get out of that? You just get a so-so kind of television experience.

Deep Space Nine was experimenting with serialisation and embracing the future of televised storytelling. Ironically, Voyager would end up being the Star Trek show that boldly and stubbornly remained in place.

Hardly a blast…

Alliances is a misfire on a fairly spectacular level, one that is often overlooked in examining the context and legacy of Voyager . The fact that it aired right before the broadcast of Threshold probably offers insulation and protection that it doesn’t really deserve. It is one of the worst episodes of Voyager ever produced; if not one of the worst episodes the franchise every produced. It is certainly among the most toxic, tainting both the racial politics of the show itself and also sabotaging any credible attempt to modernise storytelling on Voyager .

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You’re right that DS9 is the more logical successor to The Original Series, in tone and themes. (Just compare The Armageddon Factor to For the Uniform. ) And yet defenders of VOY tend to compare it TOS. This proves that the show is strongest when it jettisons the serial approach (as you said) and focuses on standalone stories. To paraphrase Winston Churchhill, you can always count on Voyager to do the right thing after everything else has been tried!

“Everything else” being a DS9 retread. TNG retread. Retread of popular movies. Retread of SG1. Retreads of itself (!!).

On VOY, you have episodes like “Meld”, “Remember”, “Night”, “Nemesis”, “Timeless”, “Memorial”, and particularly “Workforce”, which brings out some inspired performances in the actors and put them in uncomfortable places.

Paradoxically, the fact that VOY’s cast were such “blank slates” lends them to episodes where their sense of identity is challenged or questioned. On TNG we roll our eyes when Riker suddenly thinks he’s in a mental institution. Even on DS9, one has to swallow a lot of disbelief to watch O’Brien in “Hard Time”. Because we see so little of the senior staff outside of their assigned “roles”, there are precious moments where we learn something new about them.

Yep. I worry that it sounds like I hate Voyager in these reviews. I actually like it a lot. It’s probably my least favouritye Star Trek show, but that still leaves a lot of affection for it. (Funny you should mention “Meld”, it might be my favourite episode.)

Do you still like it a lot after this most recent re-watch?

You know, I do.

The sixth and seventh seasons are a slog. But if you asked me after the fifth season, I’d be much more enthusiastic. The fourth season is great fun from beginning to end, and the fifth season has any number of really great episodes.

It’s funny. A little while ago, my Voyager reviews got shared on TrekBBS. They met with the same sort of response you’d expect – this guy is no fun , this guy hates Star Trek , this guy over-thinks it , this guy hasn’t done enough research – but what was remarkable is how they fixated on my negative reviews. Which, to be fair, are a lot of them.

But that involves overlooking the fact that Voyager gave us Counterpoint or Gravity in the space of a handful of episodes, or the steps the series made in producing blockbuster spectacle on a television budget in Future’s End or The Killing Game , or the wry self-aware deconstruction of Course: Oblivion or Child’s Play .

I still think Voyager is (by far) the weakest Star Trek show and the one that doomed the franchise. But I also think there’s a lot here to like.

Yep, I don’t hate Voyager either. I’m frustrated by its worldview and its creative choices, but there is a point where I’m being unfair. “Voyager” wasn’t the only Trek show to struggle mightily. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, it’s all been going downhill since the end of DS9. There hasn’t been a truly great season of Trek since 1999.

The modern shows do exactly what we all criticized “Voyager” for not doing, and they still misfire hugely. And neither “Enterprise”, “Discovery”, “Picard”, or “Lower Decks” ever came close to reaching the heights of “Voyager”.

“If you want to get in the mud with the Kazon you can’t start complaining that you might get dirty.”

Bluh…!? Who was that forging an alliance with the Borg in “Scorpion”, then?

And Chakotay is the one insisting on playing by the rules four years later…I’ve heard of alternate continues but not in the same series.

“‘Previously, on Star Trek: Voyager…’ ”

Right here. Moore has stumbled on the reason for the Kazon’s failure.

If we recap what happened in Caretaker, we will be reminded of that nonsensical episode from here to perpetuity. It’s the same reason why Kes must go.

Well done, Mr. Mooney. This was a good read.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I’m actually quite happy with how the second season reviews of Voyager turned out. Turns out that there is a lot to talk about when it comes to the show.

Ouch, you were certainly not kind towards this episode. I have to say it is completely justified, however. This episode feels like a mission statement from the creators of voyager. There will not be consequences and any kind of risky storytelling will not be tolerated. What amuses me about the deaths of hogan and Jonas is that two other engineers at least will bite the dust before too long in Suder and the man he kills. It makes me wonder how on earth voyager has any engineers left besides B’Elanna.

Well, Carey is still present. Lieutenant Carey of seasons one and two, never to be seen again until “Friendship One”. That’s when the fans wrote in to remind the writers about him. The staff mistakenly thought they had killed Carey, so they bring him back at the end of season seven to kill him off.

That is not a joke. (Same with that Bolian man, Chell I think, who “survived” in the sense that he was forgotten about and then killed by Psycho!Tuvok once they realized he still draws breath.)

I remember thinking that everytime they brought back Samantha Wildman.

“Voyager only remembers it has recurring guest stars among the Starfleet crew when it needs to kill somebody off.”

When did Chell die? I remember he wanted the job of chef after Neelix left Voyager in Homestead and that was only two episodes before the end.

I don’t think Chell dies. I think he is attacked by Tuvok in Repression, though. Although I might have referenced him dying in a later review. If you catch it, let me know and I’ll correct.

Clearly, all the real work was being done on Voyager’s bottom deck by Mortimer Harren. They conscripted B’Elanna’s people from security, which is why Tuvok never delegates work.

Ha! I also suspect Tuvok never delegates work because… well, would you trust the rest of the crew?

“You know, you’d imagine security’d be the riskiest profession on Voyager, but no!”

I think I mentioned a few weeks back that Alliances is probably my second least favourite episode of the season, behind (or ahead of, depending on how you look at it) Tattoo. It is just a spectacularly ill-judged piece of television. Janeway meets a bunch of slavers and declares, “These are my kind of people!”

I never saw “Alliance,” but your review makes me glad that I missed it.

Reading you analysis of this episode, it makes me appreciate all the more how the reboot of Battlestar Galactica was, at least in part, the show that Voyager was originally supposed to be in concept but which was completely lacking in the actual execution. Battlestar Galactica was a continual exercise in demonstrating the ongoing struggle between principles and practicalities, and it was most definitely not afraid to depict the regular characters in a morally ambiguous, if not outright negative, light.

Yep. Alliances is the episode where Janeway meets a bunch of slavers and sighs in relief, “These are my kind of people.” And the writing staff thought it was a good idea.

I dislike the Kazon’s misogyny because it wasn’t hard wired into their characters when we first met them. Is it supposed to be some sort of (arrested) development on their parts, and whose bright idea was it anyway?

It’s interesting that Janeway and Tuvok liken what’s happening with the Kazon to when the Federation tried to make peace with the Klingon Empire, since the Kazon have often been accused of being a substandard replacement in the absence of the Empire, right down to the cranial ridges (although Tuvok is unaware of Federation relations with the Empire at this point in time).

It is nice to see there are still some Maquis conflicts on Voyager which always makes for good drama. I enjoyed both scenes with Hogan where I felt he held his own against Mulgrew and Dawson. In fact, Simon Billig impressed the producers enough to expand his character throughout the season from what was intended to be a one-shot appearance (and why I was so angry when they disposed of him in a most callous way in S3).

I found it unusual that Hogan and Jonas trust Seska since she is a Cardassian and they were Maquis terrorists, but that never even comes up. And I suspect the reason Janeway didn’t want Chakotay opening negotiations with Seska was because she might manipulate him into worsening their situation in the Delta Quadrant, instead of strengthening it.

I think Jeri Taylor’s script lays it on a bit thick here. You know Janeway is setting herself up to be disappointed when she says the Trabe can change and especially the ending with Janeway’s speech just in case we missed the point.

Is Hogan an ensign or a crewman? I think Harry said he was a crewman in Resolutions. The crewman killed in the teaser was called Kurt Bendera.

Yep, there is some irony in Tuvok’s whole “the alliance with the Klingons worked out pretty well” speech, to the point that I almost imagine a Family Guy style cutaway gag to the events of The Way of the Warrior.

I agree with your nuanced analysis, yet I found this episode all in all well paced, densily packed, and at times quite intriguing. As you mention, it asked a lot of good questions but cut the answers short. Janeway, especially her arrogant stance that the ship is not a democracy (which is true, but the wording and the strictness is awful) and her “told you so”-speech in the end were unwatchable. In some ways the ending seemed to indicate Roddenberry’s optimism, but it also sounded heavily “end of history”-like and arrogant, especially since she seemed to believe the Trabes’ intentions to be good at first and that history and its debts are forgotten. The Kazon, though obviously no realiable partners either, at least pointed the finger at Janeway. But despite the obvious weaknesses of the show and putting lack of serialization aside I could not see a better way to resolveor continue this dilemma once it is there. Sticking to principles – what story would you tell? Continue the deal with the Trabe – impossible. Maybe Janeway should have tried allying with another Kazon tribe, just to prove that they are not all bad, brown, evil idiots.

The one aspect were Voyager did serialization – Seska – keeps on annoying me. Why don’t we get any sense of her motivation? What does she believe to gain by joining the Kazon? It seems to be not really a pleasant or safe environment. The little power she might gain could be lost any minute.

The whole episode, btw, could indeed have come from Piller’s mind – it reminded me a lot about Star Trek IX in which the Federation’s moral ambiguity was critizised in order to restore it more fully at the end.

In that conversation where MAbus was explaining the history of the kazons, it wasn’t saying that the Kazon were inherently violent and that the trabe were right in enslaving them, it was saying that had become violent BECAUSE they had been enslaved by the trabe, and mentioned that they made them fight each other so that they wouldn’t turn on their masters.

As for Janeway allying herself with former slavers, in her defence, the crew did seem to genuinely believe that the trabe had learnt their lesson and they were willing to give them a second chance, not to mention that they seemed easier to get along with compared to the Kazon (plus they probably had that whole without a home thing that gave them extra sympathy points). Of course, this proved to be a farce as it became clear that MAbus had no intention of wanting to make peace with the Kazon, and the episode doesn’t condone his racial argument that the kazon no nothing but violence, with Janeway saying that maybe he’s the one who knows nothing but violence.

Also when I was going to add this comment, I was surprised to see you say in one response that you actually like voyager, as in nearly every review I’ve read about Voyager you’ve been critical of the show, or at least there’s less to be wanting.

There’s still a huge difference in how Janeway treats the Trabe as opposed to the Kazon. She pops the champagne for the former slavers, and doesn’t subject them to anything close to the level of scrutiny that she has had for the Kazon since the outset.

With regards to Voyager, I’d point you to me reviews of episodes like Prey , Gravity , Counterpoint , Course: Oblivion , Child’s Play , Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy and lots of others. If you’re reading Alliances , you’re probably reading reviews of the show’s second season, which is (I would contend) one of the worst seasons in Star Trek history. It’s highly likely that most will be skeptical of the show. Even then, it still produces episodes like Meld or The Thaw or Lifesigns . I even really loved Projections , although it’s debatable to which season it belongs.

You mean the descendants of the former slavers, as mabus had only been a child when the Kazons rose in revolt.

As for the episodes you pointed out, I’ll look out for them, as previous articles and reviews looked at episodes like Fortunate son, family, displaced, day of honor, lineage, and author author, reviews that contain aspects of just how horrible a series voyager is (And I don’t mean badly written, although I’m sure there’s that as well, I mean how it the series portrayed horrible values).

That said, I do agree with a couple of points you made, like pointing out the uncomfortable comments about race, such as splitting torres up created a more ‘genetically aggressive’ individual, or the negative portrayal of klingons in family. It’s funny to think how in comparison to a show like ds9 where a klingon restaurant was an option for food, characters drank ratkajino and klingon opera was part of the school curriculum, voyager seemed to emphasise just how negative the Klingon culture was.

(Oh since I came up with this, I did read about one, and yes it was surprisingly positive. Mind you it’s not that I haven’t come across the odd positive review (or at least a neutral one), it’s just more often than not I come across a review that seems to focus on the worst of this series, so much that it has potential to put me off a series that I had enjoyed when it was on, even though it was no deep space nine).

Sorry! I shouldn’t put you off. Just ignore me. The worst thing in the world I can do is kill somebody’s enthusiasm for something they love. All I am doing here is arguing for my own reading of the series. It’s not absolute, nor should it be. It’s just one guy writing about what runs through his head when you pour hundreds of episodes of Star Trek into it.

One of the most disheartening things that I ever read was one of my reviews shared on reddit and somebody saying that I was right and that they were wrong to enjoy the show. Which is the exact opposite of the point of this.

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Recap / Star Trek Voyager S 2 E 14 "Alliances"

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I don't think we can afford to keep doing business as usual. — Chakotay

This episode provides examples of

• Action Prologue : The episode opens in the middle of a battle where Voyager is getting hammered by two Kazon warships.
• Aggressive Negotiations
• The Alliance : Attempted. Voyager tries to make an alliance with one or two of the Kazon sects, but each attempt falls apart. Janeway then starts negotiating with the Trabe, former masters of the Kazon who were overthrown, and this leads to a proposal to bring peace to all the Kazon. However, when the Trabe leader betrays her trust and the Peace Conference nearly becomes a bloodbath, Janeway breaks off all negotiations.
• All Is Well That Ends Well / Debate and Switch : This episode raises the Starfleet principle vs. Maquis pragmatism conflict on which Star Trek: Voyager is supposed to be based, only to shut it down with An Aesop that the Starfleet way is the only way. Maquis dissidence is transferred to a single traitor , and continual use of the Reset Button ensures that Voyager is never put in the position of Equinox .
• Snipe Hunt : The dancer did say she'd sleep with the man who solved the puzzle. Seems a good way to get rid of an Abhorrent Admirer .
• That, or it forms the net of a polyhedron. It wouldn't be hard to count the sides and verify that they're all triangles.
• A Shared Suffering : Janeway assumes their own situation is similar to that of the refugee Trabe.
• Baby Trap : When Culluh threatens Seska, she taunts Culluh that he'd never harm his own child.
• Back-to-Back Badasses : Chakotay and Bendera when they first met during a Bar Brawl .
• Badass Boast : When Hogan suggests they just give the Kazon what they want, Janeway replies thus: "I appreciate your concerns, crewman, but let me make myself absolutely clear. I'll destroy this ship before I turn any part of it over to the Kazon."
• Bad Vibrations : Heralding the arrival of the Trabe warship.
• The Trabe appear as an alternative to Voyager allying with the untrustworthy Kazon. Then they betray Janeway as well.
• Voyager's crew thinks one of the First Majes is planning to assassinate his rivals. Knowing the person responsible will leave during the conference, they tense when Maje Culluh stands up from the table...to get himself a drink. Then Mabus urges Janeway to step outside for a quiet word...
• Beauty Equals Goodness : Subverted with Mabus, whose people (the Trabe) look more human than the Kazon. He starts out amiable and penitent for his people's treatment of the Kazon, yet turns out to be just as devious and violent.
• Be Careful What You Wish For : Chakotay has second thoughts when the other senior officers endorse bringing Seska into the negotiations.
• Beware the Nice Ones : Mabus appears a Reasonable Authority Figure . Turns out the Peace Conference he suggests is just so the Kazon leaders will be Lured into a Trap .
• Blatant Lies : When Neelix is seized by two Kazon thugs, the man he's negotiating with claims that Neelix is some unknown lunatic who sat down next to him and started babbling.
• Blood Knight : Bendera's reason for helping Chakotay during the Bar Brawl : "I like a good fight."
• Call-Back : Tuvok compares their current situation to the controversial Federation/Klingon peace treaty in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .
• Character Tics : Janeway paces the bridge in her hands-behind-back posture, and there's a close-up of her fingers twitching in impatience.
• Chekhov's Gunman : Jonas begins a Story Arc that culminates in "Investigations", by secretly trying to make contact with Seska.
• Children Are Innocent : An Invoked Trope by Mabus, who points out that those responsible for oppressing the Kazon are old men or dead by now, yet the Kazon want them all dead.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder : It's no surprise the Alliance doesn't last.
• Commercial Break Cliffhanger : After their negotiations with the Kazon fail, a fleet of their warships bear down on Voyager. Turns out they're actually Trabe vessels, which the Kazon have been using all this time.
• The Consigliere : Chakotay finally confronts Janeway and informs her that they are on their own in this Quadrant and they need to start changing in order to survive, which might mean bending the rules a little. He makes Janeway realize that the interests of the crew are her main concern, and he questions if she is actually prioritizing that by sticking so rigidly to Starfleet rules.
• Continuity Nod : Seska is pregnant, though she's pretending to Culluh that it's his child instead of Chakotay's. It really is Culluh's.
• Decapitated Army : Mabus plans to take out the First Majes of the major Kazon factions with one strike.
• Democracy Is Flawed : "This isn't a democracy, Chakotay! I can't run this ship by consensus!"
• Due to the Dead : Bendera avoids the Red Shirt treatment when we see his memorial service.
• Enemy Mine : Rather than handing over weapons or technology, Chakotay suggests a temporary alliance with the largest Kazon factions, agreeing to defend them if attacked.
• Explosive Instrumentation : Sparks are flying all over the ship during the Action Prologue . Crewman Bendera is killed after a console explodes in his face.
• Facial Dialogue : Plenty of this from all concerned — Janeway whenever Chakotay or Maje Culluh pisses her off. Seska's reaction when Culluh suggests his crew exchange program. Jonas' thoughtful look when B'Elanna shouts down Hogan's idea of contacting Seska again.
• Gut Feeling : For once, Janeway's gut lets her down when she elects to trust Mabus.
• He's Dead, Jim : Bendera
• Idealist vs. Pragmatist : Janeway wants to stick to Starfleet principles, while Chakotay thinks it would be better to break them in emergency situations since they're lost in space. The two have many debates over this.
• Idiot Ball : It seems strange that Janeway and Tuvok don't discuss the possibility that the Trabe might have a hidden agenda.
• Is That a Threat? : The First Majes think Janeway's Appeal to Force is this. She urges them to think otherwise, but the subsequent ambush does not help her case. Janeway: I won't pretend that our alliance wasn't an attempt to make a show of strength. Separately, we and the Trabe are vulnerable. Together, we are stronger. Surat: Are you threatening us, Captain? Janeway: It is important that you understand our determination, but it's not a threat, it's an offer. A negotiated peace among all of us would provide a greater stability in this quadrant. How could that do anything but benefit us all?
• The Lancer : Chakotay and Tuvok act in this role over the course of the episode.
• Male Gaze : We get a lingering close-up of the scantily-clad buxom dancer in the Bar Full of Aliens .
• Manipulative Bastard : Seska is shown flattering and cajoling Culluh into going to the conference, while Mabus plays Janeway so admirably she never suspects a thing until it's too late to stop him.
• Mauve Shirt : This episode introduces Hogan and Jonas, former Maquis crewmembers who would become recurring characters this season (and both would end up dead by the start of Season 3). Kurt Bendera who dies in this episode can be seen as one of the male Bridge Bunnies in "Resistance".
• No Kill like Overkill : The Trabe fly a warship down into the atmosphere and fire directly through the window into the conference room.
• Noodle Incident : The "slight misunderstanding" between Neelix and his Kazon-Pomar contact.
• The crew does a lot more shouting than usual during the opening battle, and Janeway looses a few strands from her Bun of Steel.
• Tuvok knows that the rare event of Captain Janeway turning up at his quarters means she's troubled and wants his advice.
• Out-of-Character Moment : All throughout Season 1, B'Elanna would attempt to subvert Captain Janeway's orders to help get the ship home. Here, she's the captain's staunchest defender and threatens to beat the crap out of Hogan if he second-guesses her again. And then of course after this episode she goes right back to being skeptical of Janeway's decisions...
• Outside-the-Box Tactic : Chakotay urges Janeway to think Maquis instead of Starfleet, saying the latter is only good for the Alpha Quadrant where the power of the Federation backs it up.
• Peace Conference : One that backfires spectacularly.
• Permission to Speak Freely : Hogan doesn't have to ask; Janeway gives it to him preemptively.
• Plot Hole : The episode acts like the five Majes who attend the conference are the entire Kazon leadership, which isn't the case. note  Back in " Initiations ", Kar stated that the number of sects changes every day, but the last count was eighteen. In particular, the two most powerful sects — the Ogla and the Relora — are both notable by their absence, yet nobody considers the possibility that either of them may attack the conference. This also means that Mabus' plan would likely have blown up in his face : while the elimination of a substantial swath of the competition might leave the other Kazon too busy fighting over the scraps to bother anyone else, their mutual hatred of the Trabe is the one thing to have united the Kazon in the past; a bunch of their fellow Majes being wiped out by them in an attempt to destroy the Kazon leadership might well be enough to get them to call a truce for long enough to hunt every last Trabe down.
• Politically Incorrect Villain : Maje Culluh's misogyny towards Janeway and Seska is pretty much not veiled at all.
• Power Trio : After Chakotay urges a more flexible attitude, Janeway goes to her other adviser, Lieutenant Tuvok , to talk over the matter.
• Properly Paranoid : Janeway is rightly opposed to Culluh's idea of a crew exchange program, which would provide him with hostages while Kazon warriors are Not Afraid to Die . Averted when she takes Mabus on face value.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality : Janeway decides An Aesop of the episode was that she was right all along, and Starfleet principles rather than pragmatic adaptation to circumstances will see them through. Thanks to the Reset Button , the fact that Voyager is in exactly the same position as before doesn't bother anyone.
• Reconcile the Bitter Foes : Doesn't work.
• Maje Culluh gives one to Captain Janeway over her hypocrisy in allying herself with the Trabe, who have violently oppressed them in the past.
• Janeway then gives one to Mabus for turning the Peace Conference into an attempted massacre.
• After the Action Prologue we never see a hint of the damage being repaired; Voyager is its usual pristine self inside and out.
• B'Elanna reports that the warp engines are in good condition, despite Chakotay reporting to Janeway earlier that he wasn't sure if they could ever get them running again.
• The episode begins with Voyager having suffered its fourth attack from the Kazon in two weeks. After this the only sect that bothers Voyager is the Kazon-Nistrim, and that's only due to Seska's scheming. While it's possible the others were too afraid to pursue them (either because of the attack on the conference or thinking the Trabe would continue attacking them whether or not they were allied with Voyager), or that Voyager finally ended up beyond Kazon territory (with the Nistrim only dogging their trail due to Seska and Culluh's vendetta), none of this is ever explained onscreen .
• Save the Villain : Janeway warns the Kazon majes Just in Time to stop them from being Board to Death . Unfortunately this includes Maje Culluh.
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : A Trabe vessel fires its weapons at point-blank range into a building and only breaks a window.
• Shout-Out : The ambush resembles the helicopter ambush in The Godfather Part III , including a conspirator leaving the conference early to avoid getting killed.
• Sins of Our Fathers : Mabus says that the Trabe responsible for the atrocities against the Kazon are all dead or close to it by now, and it's time to leave the past in the past and try to work out a peace. Then he goes on to commit some sins of his own.
• Table Space : The representatives to the Peace Conference are seated at a triangular table, so all factions are represented equally.
• Take a Third Option : Chakotay urges this between the options suggested by Hogan (give the Kazon the technology they want) and Janeway (give them nothing at all).
• Tastes Like Friendship : Another Invoked Trope by Mabus, who prepares a Fancy Dinner for Janeway and her officers.
• "It's hard to imagine things getting much worse."
• In dealing with the Trabe, Janeway says "It's always been Starfleet's policy to deal with new species on a basis of openness and trust until proven otherwise." Brace yourself, Kathy...
• Too Dumb to Live : The Kazon, once again. One of the guards sees a grenade roll towards him and nudges it with his foot.
• Turned Against Their Masters : The Kazon were once a slave race of the Trabe, penned up in slums, bullied by the police and encouraged to fight among themselves . They banded together long enough to overthrow the Trabe, only to revert to their previous inter-clan conflicts .
• Uncomfortable Elevator Moment : Chakotay and The Captain have a terse conversation in the turbolift about their situation.
• Villain Ball : Seska is entirely for an alliance with Voyager as it's what she wanted all along. Culluh however overplays his hand during negotiations with Janeway, insults them both , and gets thrown off the ship.
• Violence is the Only Option : Mabus' view of dealing with the Kazon.
• With All Due Respect : Chakotay does one to the captain that, unusually for him, verges on insulting. "With all due respect, maybe your imagination is limited by Starfleet protocols."
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! : Harry's reaction to Janeway announcing an alliance with the Kazon. Also, Chakotay's reaction when B'Elanna takes Harry's quip about contacting Seska seriously.
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Alliances (Star Trek: Voyager)

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" Alliances " is the 30th episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager airing on the UPN network, the 14th episode in the second season .

The series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. In this episode, Captain Janeway tries to form alliances to help them on their way back.

The episode aired on UPN on January 22, 1996. [1]

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Captain Janeway reluctantly tries to form an alliance with the Kazons and their longtime enemies in order to strengthen Voyager's position in the quadrant.

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After continuous Kazon attacks against Voyager cost the lives of several crewmembers and the damage to the ship continues to mount, Janeway seeks an alliance to secure Voyager’s passage through the Kazon Collective.

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“Alliances” are made to be broken, right? Or is that rules? Either way, this episode of Star Trek: Voyager tries to break as many things as it can in order to shake the series back to its original concept. The Prime Directive and Federation ethics are on full display in the Delta Quadrant. Will the series have the conviction to follow through on what seems to be a first step?

The Wikipedia plot summary for “Alliances”:

A  Kazon  attack takes the life of another Voyager crewman, this time the popular ex-Maquis soldier Kurt Bendera.  Chakotay , a good friend of Bendera, delivers the eulogy and tells of a time Bendera rescued him from angry miners. After the funeral,  Michael Jonas  and Crewman Hogan tell Captain Janeway Voyager should change the way she operates to be more like a Maquis.

Chakotay voices the proposal of forming an alliance with one or two Kazon factions to secure peace, not to trade technology, but to offer protection from attacking forces and emergency supplies. In a following talk with Tuvok, he gives the example of peace formed by the unlikely alliance between the Federation and  Klingons  and how it helped stabilize the quadrant. Janeway opens up to the idea of an alliance and the officers decide to talk with  Seska  and her  maje  (leader), Cullah, about allying with her tribe. Meanwhile, Neelix decides to use some of his contacts to propose an alliance with a different tribe.

Initial attempts begin badly, as Cullah detests following orders from a woman. Janeway’s rejection of Cullah’s offer to trade crew also angers him. Meanwhile, Neelix is abducted before he is able to contact the  maje . He is imprisoned with a number of aliens, including many women and children. These are the Trabe, who had been imprisoned because of a generations-long conflict between them and the Kazon. Neelix befriends the Trabe elder, who gets his assurance of help in any escape attempts. Other Trabe forces attack the Kazon stronghold and Neelix, keeping an eye out for the children, assists. They escape on pilfered Kazon merchant-vessels, which had, it was revealed, originally been constructed by the Trabe, along with all the other technology used by the Kazon.

Janeway learns about the past between the Trabe and the Kazon, and decides to pursue paths of an alliance with the Trabe in spite of the danger of the possibility of it rallying the Kazon together against them. They try to pre-empt their wrath by attempting to form peaceful negotiations. Seska finds it a great opportunity to learn the weaknesses of the other tribes and potentially use it to gain an edge against all other Kazon as well as Voyager and the Trabe. The Voyager crew learns someone is planning to disrupt the conference, but they cannot determine who. They decide that any Kazon who attempts to leave the conference would be the guilty party.

The Kazon also hear something is amiss, but all the  maje  attend, too frightened to be left out of an alliance. The Kazon are suspicious especially of the Trabe, but Cullah is vocal about his distaste for befriending either the hated Trabe or a woman-led Federation. Unfortunately, the Trabe elder is the one to try to leave the conference. Janeway yells out that it is a trap. She, her party and the Trabe elder beam out as a ship fires into the conference-room. Voyager attacks the ship, driving it away. The Kazon manage to survive.

Janeway breaks the alliance with the Trabe and flees before the Kazon are able to retaliate. More vulnerable than ever and in space filled with lawless races, she emphasizes the need to hold on to what rules they have.

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Star Trek: Voyager is the fifth Star Trek series. It was created by Rick Berman , Michael Piller , and Jeri Taylor , and ran on UPN , as the network's first ever series, for seven seasons in the USA , from 1995 to 2001 . In some areas without local access to UPN, it was offered to independent stations through Paramount Pictures , for its first six seasons. The series is best known for its familial crew, science fiction based plots, engaging action sequences, and light humor. The writers often noted that many episodes had underlying themes and messages or were metaphors for current social issues. This is the first Star Trek series to feature a female captain in a leading role. However, Kathryn Janeway herself is not the first female captain to be seen within Star Trek as a whole. Additionally, the show gained in popularity for its storylines which frequently featured the Borg . Voyager follows the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation and ran alongside Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during its first five seasons.

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Launched in the year 2371 , the Intrepid -class Federation starship USS Voyager was a ship built to return to Starfleet 's founding principle of scientific exploration. It was fitting that the ship's captain , Kathryn Janeway , rose up through the science ranks rather than command. On the ship's first mission while departing the space station Deep Space 9 , which required it to find and capture a Maquis vessel that disappeared into the treacherous Badlands , the crew of Voyager , as well as that of the Maquis ship it was pursuing, were swept clear across the galaxy and deep into the Delta Quadrant . This was the doing of a powerful alien being known as the Caretaker . The seventy thousand light year transit cost the lives of over a dozen crew members. Captain Janeway was forced to destroy the massive alien array that housed the remains of the Caretaker. In doing so, she saved an alien race, the Ocampa , but stranded Voyager and the crew in the Delta Quadrant.

United in a common purpose, the surviving Maquis rebels joined with Janeway's Starfleet-trained crew on Voyager . Though a journey back to the Alpha Quadrant would have taken more than seventy years through unknown and treacherous territory , the crew of Voyager was well served by Janeway's skilled leadership and their own steadfast determination. Ultimately, Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in seven years.

The crew's journey home was eventful. Voyager made first contact with over four hundred completely new species in the Delta Quadrant, discovered links to Earth 's early space exploration history , utilized and even pioneered new technologies, all the while engaging in countless other adventures. (" Distant Origin ")

The crew encountered species ranging from the violent and ruthless Kazon , the Phage -afflicted Vidiians , the colorful Talaxians and the ephemeral Ocampa . The crew's other encounters included run-ins with the temporal sophistication of the Krenim , the predatory Hirogen , the toxic Malon and the scheming Hierarchy . The crew picked up passengers along the way, including the wily but extremely resourceful Talaxian Neelix (who served, at times, as Voyager 's ambassador , morale officer , and even head chef ), along with the Ocampan telepath Kes (who, as a parting gift to the crew, used her powers of telekinesis to thrust Voyager 9,500 light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant).

Most memorable, however, were Voyager 's repeated clashes with the dreaded Borg . While each encounter posed grave danger, Voyager was able to prevail every time. At one point, Janeway actually negotiated a temporary peace with the Borg when they perceived a common threat in a mysterious alien species from fluidic space . (" Scorpion ") At other times, she was able to liberate drones from the Borg Collective , including Seven of Nine (who became a permanent member of the crew), Mezoti , Azan , Rebi , and Icheb . Other instances pitted Voyager against not only the Borg, but also against the nightmarish Borg Queen herself.

Several years after Voyager 's disappearance into the Delta Quadrant, Starfleet Command learned of the starship's fate. Subsequently, the Pathfinder Project was created, a Starfleet Communications project that attempted to communicate with Voyager through the MIDAS array , via a micro-wormhole and the Hirogen communications network . Thanks to the hard work and enthusiasm of Lieutenant Reginald Barclay , the communications technology improved to a level whereby contact could be made on a regular basis. In 2377 , the crew was able to receive monthly data streams from Earth that included letters from the crew's families, tactical upgrades, and news about the Alpha Quadrant.

By the end of the year, Voyager made a triumphant return to the Alpha Quadrant, under the guidance of Starfleet and the Pathfinder Project, by utilizing and then destroying a Borg transwarp hub , and after a turbulent trip, a celebration was held in honor of Voyager 's return back home.

Distinguishing Voyager [ ]

Despite the general prosperity of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Paramount pressured Rick Berman for yet another Star Trek television series. Although it was decided very early on that the new series would be set aboard a starship once again, it was important for the writers to vary the series from Star Trek: The Next Generation in other ways. Berman stated, " When Voyager came around and we knew we were going to place the next series back on a starship we wanted to do it in a way that was not going to be that redundant when it came to The Next Generation . So we had a certain amount of conflict on the ship because of the Maquis. We had a different dynamic because we were not speaking every day to Starfleet and because we had a female captain. Those were the major differences that set this show apart from the others… It had the core belief of what Star Trek was all about, both in terms of the excitement and the action and in terms of the provocative elements of ideas that Star Trek has always been known to present to the audience. " ( Star Trek: Voyager Companion  (p. ? ))

The series' premise of being lost in deep space was itself a variation on a theme explored in The Next Generation . Michael Piller explained, " We remembered the episodes, many episodes, where Q would show up and throw one of our ships or one of our people off to a strange part of the universe. And we'd have to figure out why we were there, how we were going to get back, and ultimately – by the end of an episode – we'd get back home. But […] we started to talk about what would happen if we didn't get home. That appealed to us a great deal […] You have to understand that Rick, Jeri and I had no interest in simply putting a bunch of people on another ship and sending them out to explore the universe. We wanted to bring something new to the Gene Roddenberry universe. The fans would have been the first people to criticize us if we had not brought something new to it. But everything new, everything was… a challenge, in the early stages of development of Voyager." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features)

Jeri Taylor concurred that Voyager had to be different from its predecessors. She stated, " We felt a need to create an avenue for new and fresh storytelling. We are forced into creating a new universe. We have to come up with new aliens, we have to come up with new situations. " Taylor also recalled, " We knew we were taking some risks. We decided, in a very calculated way, to cut our ties with everything that was familiar. This is a dangerous thing to do. There is no more Starfleet, there are no more admirals to tell us what we can and cannot do, there are no Romulans, there are no Klingons, there are no Ferengi, no Cardassians. All those wonderful array of villains that the audience has come to love and hate at the same time will no longer be there. This is a tricky thing to do. " ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features)

Differentiating the new series from what had gone before hardened the challenge of inventing the series' main characters. Jeri Taylor recounted, " It took a long, long time, it took us weeks and weeks and weeks, even to come up with a cast of characters, because we found that so many wonderful characters had already been done and we didn't want to exactly repeat ourselves. We'd come up with an idea then say, 'No, that's too much like Data ,' or, 'That's too much like Odo ,' or, 'That's too much like Worf .' So to try to find the right balance of characters, in terms of gender and alien species and that kind of thing, really took a long time. " ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD special features)

↑ John Van Citters listed "VGR" as the series' official abbreviation when announcing the "DSC" abbreviation for Star Trek: Discovery . [1] MA , among other venues, will continue to use the abbreviation VOY for Voyager , for historical reasons.

Reception [ ]

During its seven-year run, Star Trek: Voyager was nominated for 34 Emmy Awards , mostly in "technical" categories such as visual effects and makeup. It won seven, including "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music" for Jerry Goldsmith 's theme.

Main cast [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

Also starring [ ]

• Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
• Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
• Jennifer Lien as Kes ( 1995 - 1997 )
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
• Ethan Phillips as Neelix
• Robert Picardo as The Doctor
• Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok
• Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine ( 1997 - 2001 )
• Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim

Executive producers [ ]

• Rick Berman – Executive Producer
• Michael Piller – Executive Producer (1995-1996)
• Jeri Taylor – Executive Producer (1995-1998)
• Brannon Braga – Executive Producer (1998-2000)
• Kenneth Biller – Executive Producer (2000-2001)

Opening credits [ ]

The opening credits for Star Trek: Voyager contained imagery of USS Voyager passing near various spatial phenomena.

Episode list [ ]

Season 1 [ ].

Season 1 , 15 episodes:

Season 2 [ ]

Season 2 , 26 episodes:

Season 3 [ ]

Season 3 , 26 episodes:

Season 4 [ ]

Season 4 , 26 episodes:

Season 5 [ ]

Season 5 , 25 episodes:

Season 6 [ ]

Season 6 , 26 episodes:

Season 7 [ ]

Season 7 , 24 episodes:

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Syndication [ ]

With five seasons, Voyager reached syndication in some markets airing in a daily strip on weekdays in most markets or as a weekly strip on weekends in selected markets, with the first cycle of episodes from the first five seasons began airing on 13 September 1999 , with the second cycle of episodes covering the 25 episodes of Season 6 and the final episode of Season 5 beginning on 13 November 2000 and the final cycle of episodes covering episodes of the final season and the final episode of Season 6 beginning on 25 October 2001 . Voyager was broadcast in syndication for four years until 12 September 2003 , with some stations continuing to carry Voyager after leaving syndication.

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ST: Voyager episode guide – Seven seasons of trekking through the Delta Quadrant

Of the three 1980s/90s Star Trek series, Voyager takes the longest to really get up  a head of steam. The very premise of the show, i.e. Federation citizens and members of a terrorist organization must learn to band together to survive in an unknown part of the galaxy, is mostly forgotten by episode 4 of season 1 . In addition, the show’s two most notable characters – the Doctor and Seven – don’t really take over the proceedings until season 4 or so. Nevertheless, Voyager does include some true ST classics in its run (e.g. “The Blink of an Eye”, the existential nightmare “Course: Oblivion”) that just about forgive all involved for “Threshold.”

Star Trek: Voyager – Bests and worsts of seven seasons

Season 1 – How can “Caretaker” be considered by far the weakest of all Star Trek premieres? Because it suffers from all the blah plotlines and meh characters while introducing a handful of dead-end stories and irrelevant background. Any sort of conflict promised by combining Maquis and Enterprise crews is cleared up by episode #3, for example, and Tom Paris’s supposed controversial past is hardly an issue by the time the credits roll.

Season 2 – In an attempt to up the stakes for the series, much of season 2 is devoted to trying to make the Kezon badasses. However, stuff like “Alliances” (#14) pales in comparison to anything involving political machinations on Deep Space Nine. Voyager thankfully reaches is nadir in this season, with the straight-up stupid “Tuvix” (#24, in which Tuvok and Neelix are combined via transporter accident) and the profoundly bad “Threshold” (#15, in which Paris exceeds warp 10 in shuttlecraft, passes through every point in the Universe, evolves into a giant insect and impregnates Janeway – and it’s even more ridiculous than that tight summation makes it sound).

Season 3 – A fairly uneven season does contain a few gems. Lots of head trip episodes lead up to Voyager’s version of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in “Future’s End” (#s 8-9) – except set in the 1990s and not nearly as funny. Janeway and Kes end up on the wrong (but suspenseful) side of time paradoxes in “Coda” (#15) and “Before and After” (#21); Robert Picrado gets to chew the scenery as a Mr. Hyde-like version of his Doctor in “Darkling” (#18). And Voyager season 3 may boast the best holodeck-based episode ever with “Worst Case Scenario” (#23).

Season 4 – Season 4 is to Voyager what season 2 was to Next Generation or season 3 was to Deep Space Nine . As in those other instances, Star Trek: Voyager starts out purposefully and strong from the starting gun: Part 2 of “Scorpion,” “The Gift” and “Day of Honor” gave lots more quality time to the fan favorites (and, let’s face it, better characters) Captain Janeway, the Doctor and new addition Seven of Nine while keeping Neelix’s participation minimized and jettisoning Kes. The “Year of Hell” storyline (#s 8-9) puts the emphasis on action, while the awesome Species 8472 returns in “Prey” (#16).

Season 5 – Although Voyager was conveniently “flung” out of Borg space early in season 4, season 5 sets a single-season mark for greatest use of the Borg – even if we don’t include everything about the increasingly interesting Seven of Nine – with “Drone” (#2), “Infinite Regress” (#7) and “Dark Frontier (#15-16) all Borg-centric. This season is also notable for its high number of character-focused episodes In fact, of all the main characters, only Neelix is denied (yes!) a solo shot in this season.

Season 6 – Perhaps feeling the urgency of a seventh season (the closer for TNG and DS9), more episodes in season 6 tantalize at methods of reducing the Voyager’s trip back – heck, even noted Next Generation second banana Reg Barclay gets broken out of mothballs to try and contact the ship through subspace (“Pathfinder”, #10). We’ve also got good old Federation machinations (“The Voyager Conspiracy”, #9) to ramp things up a bit. Season 6 is also a great one for returning characters: The Borg are back again of course, but so are Kes (“Fury”, #23) and Dr. Zimmerman (“Life Line”, #24).

Season 7 – Voyager’s final season hardly feels like a final season, and the concluding two-parter (“Endgame“) is as muted as the entire series had been, as is quasit-retrospective “All Good Things”-like “Shattered” (#11). Q makes his final appearance (to date) within the franchise in Q2 (#19), and hardcore ST fans cannot be too enthusiastic about “Inside Man” (#6), a mash-up of Ferengi con artists, Borg technology, Federation conspiracy and Reg Barclay.

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• Trivia When auditioning for the part of the holographic doctor, Robert Picardo was asked to say the line "Somebody forgot to turn off my program." He did so, then ad-libbed "I'm a doctor, not a light bulb" and got the part.
• Goofs There is speculation that the way the Ocampa are shown to have offspring is an impossible situation, as a species where the female can only have offspring at one event in her life would half in population every generation, even if every single member had offspring. While Ocampa females can only become pregnant once in their lifetime, if was never stated how many children could be born at one time. Kes mentions having an uncle, implying that multiple births from one pregnancy are possible.

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