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Star Trek: Voyager

“Q2”

Air date: 4/11/2001 Teleplay by Robert Doherty Story by Kenneth Biller Directed by LeVar Burton

Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan

"He worked so hard on that paper. The least you could've done was tell him you were proud of him." "But I'm not." — Janeway and Q

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In brief: Yawn. Not nearly funny enough to make up for the woeful lack of imagination and utterly wrong-headed use of the Q.

I suppose we're supposed to laugh at the fact omnipotent beings are asking parental advice of Captain Janeway. Unfortunately, the joke isn't all that funny — nor is much of "Q2" in general — so if it's not a comedy it can only be a pretty lame excuse for a Q episode.

The best Q comedy was TNG 's " Deja Q ." That was a show with chemistry and wit ... and a premise that at least made Our Favorite Q (John de Lancie) into a human, such that he had no choice but to experience human behavior firsthand. But "Q2" — aside from its ripped-off "Deja Q"-like elements — is unfortunately the sequel to " The Q and the Grey " from four years back, an episode that went about as wrong as a Q story could. "Q2" only takes that wrongness further; omnipotence apparently means you have the ability to do anything physically, but have the intellect and ambitions of an American teenager.

Basically, the problem is that we have humans teaching lessons to the Q instead of the other way around — which is absurd and simply a waste of the Q as a story device. When you have beings who can do anything, why put them through the shenanigans of sitcom-level teenage rebellion? In TNG 's " All Good Things... " Q was trying to help Picard understand larger issues about the nature of the universe. In Voyager 's " Death Wish " we had a Q who wanted to die because knowing everything had rendered his existence pointless. Those were interesting, larger-thinking shows.

Now? We get High Concept 101: "A teenage Q." And Higher Concept 102: "Let's have John de Lancie's real-life son (Keegan de Lancie) play the part of Q's son!" Well, great. It's an okay starting point and I'm sure fun for all the actors, but there has to be a story here for it to be worth our time.

Alas, there's not much to be said for the story that is "Q2." It's featherweight at best, and the lessons rehashed here are straight from Chapter 1 of the Star Trek Human Lessons Textbook. I wish I could say there was anything here resembling Q-worthy thought on the writers' behalf, anything that could put it more in the vein of "All Good Things..." or "Death Wish," but there isn't. "Q2" is simply a gag show starring the Q, with their super-duper powers as the tools for the gimmicks. There's no evidence this show even wanted to be thoughtful; it's dumbed down by design.

Q arrives on Voyager to ask "Aunt Kathy" (an amusing title, I'll grant) to help him teach his out-of-control son (born as a result of "Q and the Grey") some responsibility. Why Q cannot do this himself is a question that, if answered, would reveal the entire foundation of the episode as the sham it is. Apparently being omnipotent doesn't afford you any parenting skills. (Omnipotence just isn't what it used to be.) If we're to accept the can-of-worms premise of an out-of-control Q, at least make it seem like there's some urgency.

Instead, the idea of an out-of-control teenage Q quickly paves the way to a series of routine comic gimmicks. Gimmicky Q hijinks are a hallmark of Q stories, even in good ones like "Death Wish," but without a story to eventually grab our attention they just tire here.

Gimmick #1: Turn engineering into a dance club. "It's a party," explains Q Jr., with beverage in hand. Is it non-alcoholic? I hope so, because he's most definitely underage and that would mean Voyager needs more competent bouncers. For that matter, a drunken Q could be dangerous: Alcohol and altering the space-time continuum don't mix. Janeway rolls her eyes here for what won't be the last time.

Gimmick #2: Make Seven nekkid. This looks like one of those things the studio must've loved when they heard about. I can almost picture the people who cut together the episode trailers smiling with glee: Here's an easy workday! Plus, it can be justified as plausible ! What heterosexual teenage male wouldn't wanted to see Seven without clothes? Nothing like a little realism in your Trek . Of course, Seven is too superior to be embarrassed or do any Janeway-style eye-rolling, so she simply uses the ignore-the-pest tactic.

Gimmick #3: War games. Q Jr. starts a war between two societies simply to watch their ships shoot at one another on the viewscreen. Somebody needs to go out and buy this kid a PlayStation or a DVD of Star Wars (the latter of which I'm guessing might actually be available by the 24th century, but no promises).

Gimmick #4: Make Neelix mute. Hey, this is actually a pretty good idea. Q Jr. fuses Neelix's jaw shut and makes his vocal cords disappear. Poor Neelix — he had his lungs extracted way back in " Phage " and now he has his vocal cords taken away. There's no justice in the world. Or come to think of it, maybe there is.

Such zaniness is setup for the actual premise, which is that Q suspends all of Q Jr.'s powers, and gives his son one week to shape up under Janeway's tutelage. If he hasn't shown great improvement, the Q Continuum will transform the unruly brat into an amoeba. The lesson: Actions Have Consequences, especially when your actions can rearrange entire worlds. I'd just like to know why Q can't conjure up some sense for this kid when he has the power to transform him into an amoeba. For that matter, I'd like to know if the writers actually thought any of their "intellectually immature superbeing" plot was fresh, seeing as TOS did " Charlie X " roughly 35 years ago.

The middle passages of the show are bland moments of Janeway trying to whip this kid into shape with lay-down-the-law threat tactics and then lessons that double as Meaningful Dialog Scenes. Eventually we're watching as Q Jr. writes a paper on the Q Continuum, which is hopelessly inane; apparently the great Continuum really is too much for my feeble mind to comprehend ... or for television writers to do any justice.

Then we have Q Jr. stealing the Delta Flyer because he apparently didn't learn anything from all this. His excuse for theft and joyriding? Boredom. He goes flying through alien territory with unwilling partner-in-crime Icheb, opening fire on an alien ship when they try to detain him for trespassing. Icheb is injured, Q Jr. escapes and returns to Voyager where he gets the usual dressing-down by Janeway. Icheb lies dying, with Doc going on about how he needs to know more about the weapon in order to save Icheb's life. (Yes, in sci-fi you can treat someone who has been run down by a car as long as you know what make and model the car was.)

The final act is so underwhelming it plays more like a parody on humanism than a satisfying ending. Q Jr. decides to accept responsibility for his actions by returning to face the music at the hands of the aliens he shot at. But, surprise! The alien was actually Q, who engineered the encounter as a test to see if Q Jr. would own up to the consequences of his mischief. Icheb is really okay. Then we get a quick trial of Q Jr. by Continuum judges, who, after all this, find that Q Jr.'s actions don't indicate acceptable levels of progress.

My point is more along the lines of Q's complaint — that Janeway has turned Q Jr. into a human with Federation values and, well, what good is that for the Continuum? They're judging Q Jr. on an incident and actions that have about as much cosmic relevance as what I ate for breakfast this morning.

LeVar Burton, who has directed excellent episodes like " Timeless ," is saddled with a banal script that thinks small when it should be thinking big. The closing scenes give us a trial and a guilty verdict only for it to be reversed with a bunch of Q's off-screen (non)arguments. What, if anything, is all of this saying? It's clunky and abrupt along the narrative line.

My, how the Q have fallen. Amazingly, it would seem Voyager has managed to bastardize the Q even worse than the Borg. Who could've guessed that the beings who put humanity on trial back in the TNG days would be reduced to the sort of family sitcom where a son whines to his father about being too pressured about living up to expectations? Let's be real here: Do we want to see the Q as a metaphor for emotionally abandoned teenagers and/or fathers?

I'd have told the kid: Hey, you're omnipotent . With your talents I'll be damned if I'm going to let you end up working at Burger King. Stop screwing around and put that galaxy back where it belongs.

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73 comments on this post, grumpy_otter.

If it were possible to give negative stars, this episode should get them. I must admit, I have never understood the appeal of the Q--Omnipotent beings really have nothing better to do than toy with weak little bipeds? Yes, I love to sit around and poke at anthills, and pour water on them, and disturb their nests, and smush a few. Really? Dull, dull, dull.

I loved Q on TNG but I think all his appearances on Voyager (and the one on DS9) were terrible. He's always some kind of male chauvanistic pig and it just goes downhill from there. Ugh. In this ep especially, he looks tired, old, bloated and bored, just like his character at this point.

I actually enjoyed his DS9 appearance basically because of his nice interactions with the DS9 gang. However, his Voyager appearances made him basically a copy of that uncle on Bewitched, unlike the character he established on TNG, which was much more complex & interesting.

What happened to Q Jr's "technology" trick that opened a rift directly to such-and-such a place? Why couldn't Voyager use the logs from the Delta Flyer to do the same thing and take themselves home? Why, further, does this omnipotent, lazy Q know more about their technology than they do even when he "won't stoop to use it" and doesn't seem to have any other relevant knowledge?

Q is the archetypal Loki, the trickster. At least he was used properly in this vein in TNG, constantly tormenting humanity, and daring them to go beyond their limits, and them punching them in the nose when they would do so. His one appearance on DS9 was totally lame, and a stunt, I suspect, on the part of the DS9 production staff to net curious TNG viewers during DS9's first season. His appearances on VOY were absolutely egregious, and serve only to diminish the interesting aspects that his character originally conveyed. Bah. Humbug.

I think I like your reviews of bad episodes the best.

I have now seen all of Q's appearances on Voyager. I have not seen his DS9 appearance yet so cannot comment on it. I enjoyed "Death Wish", Q's first appearance on Voyager, and I also enjoyed (and I may come under fire for this, but everyone's entitled to an opinion) the Q and the Grey, but I thought this episode was just a lame excuse to shoehorn Q into Voyager at the last minute. Did he really need to come back after his last appearance?

It's obvious that the Q exist beyond time, because in the four years between deLancie's last appearance and this one, he seems to have aged at least ten.

"You know what, Talaxian? You talk too much. [Welds Neelix's lips shut and removes his vocal cords.]" AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!! God, if only this kid had been around in the first season, he could've spared us from Neelix altogether! The rest of the show is risible and, Jammer, you shouldn't have graced it with more than a couple of lines. It's funny at times though, sometimes in a stupid way. I'd give it two stars...

Guess I'm the odd one out, I kind of enjoyed it. It wasn't "what could've been" but after 7 seasons of Voyager I think I've accepted it for what it is because it was never going to live up to its potential. So expectations of un-Voyager-y things cast aside, I found it to be fun and light hearted. I especially liked the replicator saying "make it yourself!", referring to Neelix as the "pet Talaxian" and acknowledging how annoying his character is, in this case by sealing his mouth :). (poor guy, his heart is in the right place. But he IS annoying) Not an ideal end to Q (seeing as there were no more 24th century Trek series and John de Lancie was already looking a bit old for the part of an immortal) but I didn't find it offensive. 2-2.5.

Can we retroactively rename this series, "Star Trek: Unused Potential"? First, Voyager pissed away it's initial premises. The Starfleet/Maquis conflict amounted to next to nothing, and the Kazon years -- which I think were actually the series' best -- were too ham-fisted and not consequential enough. When it was evident things weren't working, Bernman and the gang brought in Q for one of the series' best episodes ('Death Wish'). And, honestly, I thought the 'Q and the Grey' was better than Jammer and others did. But THIS episode on the heels of that one -- plus the watering down of the Borg and even an episode that totally neutered the Klingons -- showed that Voyager didn't just waste its own potential. It wasted the potential it inherited from TNG. DS9 wasn't a perfect series, but at least it made its own storylines and premises. Voyager tried that, failed and then corrupted two big parts of the TNG legacy.

TNG Q is more daunting and complex but at the same time Loki-like. VOY in this ep is all Loki-like. Either way the episode was very funny to my husband who is NOT a trekkie and got him interested in Trek a lot more. Previously all his interest is making fun of sisko's and janeway's voice, and poking fun about how reversing the polarity and recalibrations saves the day (he thinks the writers of VOY are lazy that they can't imagine a new science-talk and just kept repeating themselves). Either way it's interesting how non-trekkies look at this ST world. Q had so much potential to bring in more fans if done right -I wished TNG made 1 movie regarding Q.

Awful. DeLancie JR can't act and big daddy Q looks more tired and bloated than Riker post-First Contact. A shameful sendoff for a once great character.

BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHH!!! And Voyager's raping of TNG's glory is now complete.

I actually think this was the best of the 3 Q voyager episodes. by far the most entertaining. but not one of my favorite episodes. 2 star

Watching the reruns

I agree with all the criticism about the potential of Q being just pissed away (my limited human brain can't imagine what an immortal omnipotent being would actually do, since they have probably already done everything) but ... I did like the actor playing the charming little sociopath (Q2), a true chip off the old block (Q), and what a hoot it is to discover that the two are actually father and son! Light frothy fun, so long as you skim along the surface and don't try to think more deeply about it.

Jo Jo Meastro

A decent, entertaining effort even if it is apparent that Q stories deserve to amount to a lot more. Part of what makes it forgivable is that there are plenty of smirk inducing gags and all of the actors involved make much more mileage out of the material than there really should be. Q Junior could have easily descended into Jar Jar Binks territory, but thanks to the actor portraying him; he's actually amusing, quirky and has a certain charm. It must be difficult to nail a role were you must be irritating to every character yet loveable to the audience. A few instances did hold it back. Even for a story that's meant to be light-hearted, some gags just didn't work and despite what the writers think; we don't want Seven reduced to shameless bait for adolescent male viewers. Plus some of Qs' human lessons were redundant. Making him write essays was dull and useless, as the episode proved a few Acts later. In the end I did hope for but I laughed more than I sighed, so it gets a moderately enjoyable 2.5 stars.

Someone didn't research the years very well...Icheb had Kirk finishing his first 5 year mission in 2207, well before he was even born.

Epilogue: Q then gets bored of humans and decides to go and be a pony-dragon-thing instead. Fluttershy > Janeway 1000 times over :)

Even though I think Janeway is an idiot in most of them, she wasn't half bad here. I could be biased though, I love any episode of any Trek that has Q. lol He's my favorite guest star of all time. The kid who plays his son, is actually his son in real life too, so that was pretty awesome as well. - pepsiadikt

Wow, I'm surprised this one is so hated. It's definitely not my favorite, but I didn't find it offensive (except for the female sexploitation moments). I didn't like Death Wish (moral objections), and thought Q and the Grey was a little boring, so I guess this one would be the best Voyager Q episode in my book. Once again I agree with azcats. I think the reason I found endearing is that I'm a parent, and so I could relate to a lot of the parenting plotline. I didn't take it as a grand Q Continuum story, but rather a metaphor for human parenting. A lot of the time that's what Star Trek is – a metaphor for our own times.

Q was originally a brilliant character. His chemistry with Picard was excellent, and he was played to perfection. But then, towards the end of Generation and for the entirety of Voyager, the character was destroyed by brain dead and simplistic writing.

I liked this episode...when it was TNG's "True Q". Bleah. Voyager ruined the Q even worse than they ruined the Borg.

Besides the fact that the Voyager writers didn't seem to get what made Q a great character in TNG, Keegan de Lancie's terrible acting didn't do this episode any favors. And ha ha, sexual assault played as a joke? Classy stuff.

I liked the ep, with the exception of Keegan's acting and / or the sudden change of mind forced upon his character by the writers. 2.5 stars.

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I didn't like how the judges dressed just like Q did in TNG, it cheapened the concept. (PS. I'm an idiot and a liar.)

This episode almost made me puke. In fact, give me a moment and I’ll be right back… Zero Stars – Stop destroying our favourite characters!!! I personally love Q episodes. Almost every week, the writers try to piss us off in some way. My only guess at this point, is that the writers for Voyager are actually Star Wars fans, who hate Star Trek. There’s always been a bit of rivalry between those who like Star Wars, and those who like Star Trek. They infiltrated us. Get ‘em. When Q said "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. Don't provoke the Borg!!!", I could actually sense his fear. What the hell? Even Janeway isn't afraid of the Borg. She willingly chooses to get assimilated, she raids Borg cubes, etc... Voyager has now castrated the Q. Can it get any worse? DS9’s Q appearance was OK. It reminded me of “Encounter at Farpoint”, as it was another Alien that was being held captive. Again, they were being tested, to see if they would figure it out in time, and set the alien free. It wasn’t as good as “Encounter at Farpoint”, but they didn’t change the Q character like in this sack of crap. As Q’s favour to Janeway, he should have left Neelix mute. Q could have just winked at Janeway, said “You’re Welcome”, then snapped his fingers and disappeared.

Diamond Dave

Just desperate. Even as someone who has only rarely enjoyed a Q episode, this is a new low. I think that what gets my back up most is that Junior takes on all of Q's most irritating traits, magnifies them by 100, and makes a character unlovable enough that his conversion matters not a jot. It also doesn't help that the conversion is so jarring, with a wildly swinging tone, and that it follows right out of the Sesame St trite lesson school. I've said before that Q worked best as a vehicle for something else in my mind, such as introducing the Borg in Q Who. This is the other extreme, a Q episode that seeks nothing but to introduce a bigger, badder Q for nothing more than its own sake. "Can I help you, kitchen rat?" indeed. 1 star.

Yeesh. When they decided to make a sequel to the not so great Demon, they took that contrived, uh, contrivance and used it to make a unique and interesting episode. And when they decided to make a sequel to the awful Q and the Grey, they took that bad concept and doubled down on it, creating this mess. For starters, the episode doubled down on the absurdity of Qs acting like humans. Remember, Q had absolutely no experience with being a human in Deja Q, despite appearing like them and knowing all about them. He openly admitted he would have appeared as a woman if he had realized before it could have distracted Picard. So why, pray tell, is little q acting like a horny fifteen year old? Why on earth would he care about techno-music and what any alien girls look like? Why would he want to party or see Seven naked? He wouldn't. But I guess the writers think we like this kind of juvenile humor. Well, I certainly don't. And even if others do, it isn't worth butchering the Q for it. V mentioned that her husband, not a fan of Star Trek, liked the show. Well, sorry, but that's not a good justification of it. Part of the joy of a continuing franchise is the word "continuing", or continuity. We like seeing characters and concepts and cultures developing out over time, and seeing those characters and concepts and cultures in a new light. But it requires those characters and concepts and cultures to show a connection to what came in the past. Sure, it may be possible to create a good comedy with a bumbling, incompetent legendary king in a fantasy world. But if it was Aragorn, and an official sequel to Lord of the Rings? It'd be a slap in the face of all the fans who became emotionally connected to him in the far more serious LOTR. It doesn't fit the setting. Any quality in the book would be offset by the massive disconnect it would have with the intended audience. Same here with this farce of a Q. Now, Trek is huge, and things have definitely been retconned at times, and for good reason. I don't mind that the Trill in The Host are nothing like the Dax family, because some things that work in a one-off episode wouldn't work in a deeper exploration. I don't mind that the Ferengi were retconned after their dismal initial showings. But Q was beloved. Q was at the beginning and end of TNG. Q was a well developed concept by this point. Why are we throwing away some excellent concepts for a cheap farce and juvenile jokes? Who thought this would be a good idea? Except that it was prevalent in all three Voyager Q shows. The stupid flirting with Janeway. This teenage PG-rated rebel here. Why??? If you wanted to have a story about a magical being who didn't know what it was like to be a parent, create a new magical being. Sure, it would probably be too TOS-like and still probably be dumb, but at least you aren't embarrassing a beloved actor and beloved character. Ugh, but anyway, it wasn't just that, even if it is the most egregious. Q tells Janeway to teach q how to be a Q, without actually letting her know what that entails. He still thinks humans are stupid; shouldn't he see the obvious contradiction in that? And so Janeway has q work on a term paper and learn how to be a human? OK, in fairness, Q gave her no direction on what to do, but gave her a very strict deadline. I'm pretty sure a term paper isn't going to impress anyone. I'm pretty sure any training program has more value than that... Meanwhile, q apparently doesn't know how to write a paper, doesn't know how to pilot a ship, but does know how to reprogram holodecks and open random wormholes (and hey, shouldn't Kim or Seven be able to reverse engineer whatever he did based on the Delta Flyer's logs?). Just what constitutes knowledge that is beneath value for a Q and what doesn't? The answer is apparently whatever the plot requires. Which is definitely a sign of a problem in the plot... Oh, and "Don't provoke the Borg!"? Hey, Q, what did you do back in Q Who? Oh, right, provoked the Borg. Guess he belongs to the "do as I say, not as I do" school of parenting. As for the ending, and it's obvious parallels to Deja Q, well, I'm of two minds on that. On the one hand, it kinda makes sense that Q would set that scenario up. After all, it was what got HIM reinstituted into the Q Continuum, so maybe it should work for q as well. So logically, I can see the reasoning. But the execution just fell flat. Besides the obvious retread and the obviousness that the alien was Q (c'mon, the coincidences of everything were way too high), the emotional connection just wasn't there. That said, I did like the scene where Q callously refused to save Icheb. One of the very few scenes where he actually felt like the character he really was. This was an episode we really didn't need, and wasn't worth it even if we did. Poor Q, he deserved much better than this.

This really has nothing to do with this episode except that I am rewatching some of Voyager and this episode reminded me of my story. . . I got to meet John deLancie! AND I made him chuckle. He's VERY tall, AND very handsome, which actually surprised me, because I have never found Q attractive in the least. His wife is BEAUTIFUL, and I seriously kicked myself for not googling before the event so I would have known that she is the actress who played the female voice of Reva in "Loud as a Whisper." Just like in that episode, her voice is lovely. She was also very nice--I was chatting with her for a while without realizing until later who she was. So anyway, this was at a dinner during the Reason Rally, and John deLancie was seated right behind me. After dinner, people got up and began mixing and chatting, and the organizer requested over the microphone that all the "main stage speakers come to the annex room for a group photo." John apparently didn't hear, because he turned to me and asked what they had said. I repeated it, then said, "I thought you were supposed to be omniscient!" He chuckled and replied, "Oh, I've NEVER heard that one before!" But he said it with a smile and wink, so I think it was okay. I at least refrained from falling at his feet in admiration, so it worked out well. :-)

Nice grumpy_otter :-) Voyager had used Q so well. Then this episode came about. All because Janeway is a female. Never liked this one and never will. By far Season 7's worst effort. .5 stars because there was some humor in there.

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Maybe I'm just a terrible person, but I really liked this episode the first time I saw it and I still like it. I haven't seen a Q episode I didn't like except the one in TNG where that girl gives away her Q powers rather than saying thank you and then just not using them.

Voyager finally did it. first they neutered the Borg and now they've broken Q (*)

I didn't mind it. I've liked all the Q episodes to some degree, mainly for John deLancie. He's just got such great comic delivery. Pity his son doesn't rise to his standard... "kitchen rat" cracked me up. It was "Bar rodent" in one of the other voyager Q episodes. Both great Neelix insults. 2 stars.

Torres says that if Q doesn't stop the light show in engineering, that the warp core is going to breach. Wut? All it takes is some strobe lights and the ship blows up? That's some bad engineering. 1/2 star. And only because I like John de Lancie. Otherwise 0.

No wonder why Star Trek went off the air in 2005. It wasn't that Enterprise was so bad, it's because many of its so-called fans love to hate on it. This episode was a thoroughly amusing hour of television. It didn't need to be an intellectually challenging episode. Voyager had plenty of those too. It's also just fun to watch an episode like this which is meant to be quite whimsical. Lighten up Star Trek watchers.

Did anyone else notice Kate Mulgrew's toenails are a sickening diseased orange at the end of the tub scene in this episode?

Bote For Lalo

Ugh. As mentioned earlier in this comment thread, Q is classical "trickster" figure, like Loki. And he's basically omnipotent and eternally bored, which makes him a dangerous annoyance to all non-Q he comes into contact with. Thankfully, John de Lancie and Patrick Stewart had great chemistry together. Thankfully, de Lancie is a charismatic actor who, scenery-cheweing aside, is fun to watch. The kid playing Q Jr. just plain sucked; and while he was written to be obnoxious and annoying, I didn't help his acting performance, and it pulled down the entire episode. Even with badly written material, de Lancie can at least turn lemons into lemonade and make his performance interesting. This kid had no chance, and for my money it's the worst Q episode I've ever suffered through. A very disappointing 1 star.

Mads Leonard Holvik

A complete farce! Makes fun of original TNG Q episodes. Cheap scores. What kind of complete morons would make a script like this, much less sanction it? And why did Levar Burton say yes to direct it??

Prince of Space

This episode turned me into a newt!!!!

I got better.

De Lancie is a fine actor, but the whole Q thing is utter BS.

On the one hand, it's very sad for this to be the last Q appearance, but on the other, the alternative is that The Q and the Grey is the last Q appearance. This one fares worse than The Q and the Grey if only because there's less of John De Lancie and there's also no Suzie Plakson; that episode managed to at least have a lot of charisma from the guest leads, even if it was profoundly stupid. I like Death Wish but I think it probably would have been better to keep Q on TNG, with All Good Things as a perfect send-off to the character. The novelty of De Lancie's actual son playing q wears off quickly and we are left with a plodding mess; almost shocking is that we are apparently meant to take q's boring book report on the Q Continuum as some sort of great achievement. Q's assertion that he's not proud of his son is about the only life we get here. Anyway, the Q valuing self-sacrifice isn't totally unprecedented, because of Deja Q, but even in that episode there was a twist to it (Q did admire Data's self-sacrifice, but wasn't particularly hoping to replicate it, and the second Q basically gave Q a pass for fun). The weird multiple endings with the Q jury, dressed in Q's Encounter at Farpoint/All Good Things robes which, let's recall, were based on Earth judge outfits Q was using to mock Picard, contribute to the worn-out schlockiness of the whole affair. On the plus side, by this point I find Icheb fairly engaging (if a bit dull when his only role is to play straight man to an I'm-so-crazy non-rebel like q), and I actually do like the idea that Janeway gets some legit responsibilities as godmother. And I dunno, there is still a bit of pop to seeing De Lancie (Sr.) even if he looks tired. So it's not a total loss, but it's close to it. 1 star and I think the worst of the season.

Startrekwatcher

1 Star I’m not a big Q fan. I’m not a VOY Q fan for sure I hate comedies on Trek. And I really hate low brow comedies on Trek. This was awful. Dumb. Juvenile. Pointless This is what happens when you let writers for Xena come write for Trek

Entertaining. Mulgrew and DeLancie Sr are funny together. DeLancie Jr was not the world's greatest actor, but he sufficed. I liked Icheb having a friend. I liked Seven's total shamelessness. I liked the follow up on baby Q. Mostly lighthearted fluff.

1.5 stars is too harsh. Deserves at least an extra star for the excellent fun performance from John De Lancie's real life son. Come on, the guy now helps refugees for the UN!

Jeffrey Jakucyk

Yeah this one is not very good. DeLancie didn't even try to save it, not that he could have. He's all too happy to go camp, which just doesn't work. At least the snarky replicator was fun.

Wow. I've been reading these comments for the last year or so while rewatching the syndicated series. I have to say that it seems a lot of people don't understand that Q is always testing humanity, even when he, it, or they, act like they aren't. If you saw the last episode of TNG you should realize this. If you saw the end of this episode where Janeway says " I appreciate this but It will only save a couple years..." And Q earlier saying "don't mess with the Borg," you may realize he basically tested Janeway and gave her all she needed to get home a few episodes later. Yes, it was a test. Am I the only one who sees that? It had nothing to do with Q Jr. That was just a ruse. It was still decent though.

Here's an episode that never should have been made. I could barely make it through the hour. What has VOY done to the Q?? Far worse than what it did to the Borg. This takes it to an all-time low. Nothing funny in this idiotic episode that loosely seems like a beggar's version of "Charlie X". The whole premise makes no sense -- that omnipotent beings would come to Janeway to straighten out their offspring. This is not sci-fi -- it's garbage. Just an attempt to get one more de Lancie / Mulgrew outing (since they are both good actors) -- not that that helped "The Q and the Grey" work well. What really bugs me about the episode is that just when there might be some albeit trite lesson for Q Jr. and therefore some kind of moral or real consequence, the episode basically resets. In the end, Q Jr. isn't stuck being a human, he gets all his powers back and the Q Continuum is made to look like a farce. What was the point? Did Q Jr. really grasp the self-sacrifice thing? Also, the usual stupid Q tricks are very old. And making 7 naked is just "Threshold" -level bad. The first half hour was cringeworthy and the second half hour wasn't much better. The Icheb character had a chance to act outside its box but it was more stiff acting. 0.5 stars for "Q2" -- like I said, this episode never should have been made. The only redeemable thing here for me was Mulgrew/Janeway acting the right way given the terrible script -- she was convincing in trying to do her part to help Q Jr. even though the whole premise is ludicrous. What has the Q Continuum become... There are good Q episodes, bad ones, and this ugly one.

"There are good Q episodes, bad ones, and this ugly one." This was indeed a fistful of stupid.

2.5 to 3 stars. This was a lighthearted comedy, not intended to be serious drama or examination of the meaning of what it would mean to encounter an omnipotent being, and you people are judging it as if it were the latter. That is an absurd category mistake. The Q storyline was always meant to be funny. There is no way you could take any of it seriously in any of the series. It would have been great if Voyager had been written to be a serious drama like BSG or even DS9, but since it wasn’t, you should take it for what it was and judge it episode by episode. Some episodes were meant to be taken seriously and some were not.

I realize that the vast majority of people who frequent this site think ST-TNG is nothing short of perfection and that ST-Voyager is nothing but its ‘red-headed step child’ but you all are really chucking spit balls into the wind! This episode was fun. Period. It wasn’t a grandiose statement about anything but fun. Seriously. Stop taking yourselves so seriously. And, we get it. TNG— nothing short of excellent. Voyager— nothing but spittle from the mouth of all that is good and Picardish....🤦🏼‍♀️

The most interesting aspect of this episode is Q Sr handing Janeway a tablet with course adjustments on it that she looks at and turns to him and says “not that I don’t appreciate it but this will only take a few years off our journey, why not send us all the way?” One expects in the next scene to see Voyager warp off — no doubt on an adjusted heading. But we do not. It sits stationary in space for the long pause. Therefore, Q Sr apparently knows of Endgame, and the rollback of the Universe, and even no Starship Relativity interference for a TPD violation.

Hate it when people show up and say things like "This is a light-hearted comedy, not SERIOUS DRAMA!" to excuse terrible writing. Comedy episodes can be just as good as the serious episodes, this one sure as FUCK wasn't.

Agree with Ben, JB, and Mom. Plus, I liked the kid’s acting. He cracked me up when he still had his powers. You really need a good sense of humour to appreciate how great this show was. Loved every Q episode in Voyager. In TNG I couldn’t stand the character. Love the chemistry Mulgrew and DeLancie had together. I haven’t come across a bad episode in season 7, yet. “Muses” was the last bad one and I see that that was season 6.

I was pleasantly surprised by this episode. I liked it quite a bit. They even managed at the very end to answer the question I was thinking the whole time which was why Janeway didn’t just make Q agree to send Voyager to Earth if she helped his son. With only 6 episodes left in very much doubting I will be seeing Q or Q2 again so this was a nice goodbye. I wouldn’t have mind if this episode aired a few years prior so that there would have been time to get another Q2 visit.

Generally speaking, The Next Generation is a better show than Voyager. But I'm tired of people who always repeat the mantra, "TNG good, Voyager bad," and apply it to every episode. Q's first appearance in TNG in the series premiere was a thoroughly mediocre show. In fact, TNG's whole first season was pretty lame. In contrast, Death Wish was pretty great. Even this Q2 episode was better than Encounter at Farpoint, as uneven and nonsensical as Q2 sometimes was. So stop saying that Voyager "ruined" Q, and ruined everything else as well. Voyager had some great episodes, and TNG had some lousy ones.

@Mark - VOY had some great episodes, no doubt. But people feel that VOY ruined things because they fleshed things out that maybe worked better without being fleshed out. I would argue that the Borg and the Q worked better when you knew less about them, even if Death Wish was clearly far better than Encounter at Farpoint.

Even "Death Wish" borrows a lot of good faith we have from the franchise thanks to TNG. I mean it guest stars not one, but two TNG characters to help give it credibility. Say what you will about Farpoint, but it was an original concept that created a popular recurring character and theme for the franchise.

This episode actually made me miss Wesley Crusher. 1 star.

Ten years later and I actually enjoyed this one a lot. The first thing that got me engaged was the introductory premiss: Q. Jr. getting bored. Many would just gloss over that but it got me to thinking about how eternal life, promised by many religions, would actually be highly undesirable. Eternal existence--even as some "higher," "spiritual" beings--would become supremely boring and worthless after a while, and this show broaches that idea in an admittedly clunky manner. It made me sit up and pay attention though. Otherwise, and maybe I'm in a particular melancholic mood but Junior's transformation--very quick though as it was--was moving, especially his newfound appreciation of friendship, personal responsibility, mutual support, etc. It's as if he learned, the hard way, that it's the deeper things in life that matter, rather than superficial "fun" and instant gratification. That's always commendable. The humor was good, too. A solid 3 stars for my money.

EventualZen

@MikeyZ I think the concept and consequences of eternal life was covered far better in VOY "Deathwish". Having said that, this was a thoroughly enjoyable episode - 8/10. Q Junior learned the value of responsibility and friendship, there was suspense when we were led to believe Icheb was dead, and humour "Coffee, black" , "Make it yourself". Even though eternal life seems undesirable as much as impractical, I would want to live for a thousands in good health (with a young person's body) as long as my loved one's lived that long too. How long would you guys want to live for and why? PS: My name actually means the eventual peace and end of suffering that we will all attain once we die.

How long and why. For me I only want to see if humanity will destroy itself or not. So either until humanity ends or until humanity ends itself. I also don't think that you achieve peace through death. Nothingness is not peace. I guess you favor the Buddhist view. If you are right then we will find out when we die, if I'm right then we will never know. End of suffering is quite nice, though.

TNG wasn’t perfect, and I think Voyager’s seventh season is much stronger than TNG’s seventh. I watched a fair amount of Voyager first run, but less and less because it mostly felt like reheated TNG leftovers. This is one of many I skipped because it sounded blah. I think it helps with the separation of years and knowing Voyager’s weaknesses. I actually liked it. Kegan de Lancie does a great job, and I liked that his form of teenage rebellion became being super responsible. The anti Q Q. But before that, his gags were funny. Turning the warp core into a disco light was good, and is a mild meta poke at the show itself, because of course the prop is just a giant light. And of course it’s about to breach. Starfleet warp cores after the Excelsior class tend to explode if you sneeze in engineering. I didn’t at all like the Q civil war and the notion of Q having a baby would fix it and blah blah, but given that background, this was fine, and yes it was funny and charming that little Q called Janeway Aunt Kathy. Oddly, I didn’t even guess the probably obvious twist. Though, no doubt because most times I watch TV these days, I’m on my phone too.

Not the best Q episode, but not the worst. I found it amiable and fun, honestly. I enjoyed the friendship between Q junior and Icheb, who hasn't had anyone his age to spend time with since his introductory episode. And it was honestly nice to see the Q and the Gray followed up on. Yeah, something serious and grand and dramatic might have been preferable to Q jr hijinks, but what we got was fun and entertaining, so I can't complain. And since we now know that Q is turning up in Picard, this will soon no longer have the distinction of being the final Q episode. That might elevate it, depending on how the Picard writers handle the character.

Michael Miller

Anyone that complains that teens are a nuisance and troublesome should watch this episode was be grateful!

I enjoyed this episode. Tbh I like all the Q episodes to date and hopefully Star Trek Picard will continue that trend. DeLancie is a great actor and nails Q every time and his own son playing his own characters son (genius) actually works really well as the chemistry is all their on screen and the (then) young actor pulls off a pretty good performance IMO.

What a throwaway of an episode so close to the end of the series. I am not a fan of Q in general (although DeLancie has been very funny over the years), so I admit my bias. This episode was a complete mess from start to finish. The kid goes from complete brat to great kid in about 2 minutes without any transformative incident. He then builds a great friendship with Icheb, and I actually feel sorry for the kid when Q dissed his essay. We start to see that Q may be part of the problem. And then it implodes. Instead of the kid bonding more with Janeway and Icheb after being letdown by his dad, and instead of Janeway schooling Q on being a crappy father, he goes right back to his old ways and steals a shuttle. He basically wiped everything he accomplished. His redemption is unsatisfying and the ending just horrible. Icheb is his only friend, but he is out of the picture after the sick bay scene. No final moment between the two of them where Q Jr. apologized and thanked Icheb for being a friend. It was a loose end that needed to be tied and the writers failed big time.

A total mess of an episode, but after seven seasons of Voyager I'm willing to give this one a pass. Compared to some of the dirge that has come before this is... Ok. At least it's energetic. Two stars

This is a popcorn episode. You just need to turn off your brain. If you turn on your brain, there are glaring problems. Why is Voyager supposedly capable of teaching Q Jr yet omnipotent beings can't? Why is Q Jr an archetypal heterosexual adolescent male? Why is he into corporeal females? Why does he want to see Seven naked? Why is there a dance club with exotic female dancers? Can the male gaze get anymore ridiculous in the writing? Why does he like seeing ships blow up? It seems to insane and such a waste of Q. They are supposed to be tricksters who always tell the truth and try to help lesser species along in their understanding of the universe. Q sets up the test for Q Jr that involved Icheb getting injured. Well, why didn't Q just do something that in the first place?

@Robert I agree that they anthropomorphized the Q a lot in this episode, why would Q Junior be embarrassed to be seen with his parents? But still with it's flaws, I maintain that this is an 8/10 episode.

Really enjoyed this episode. A lot of the above comments are just plain mean. I'm afraid that Jammer set the tone. Very glad that Star Trek is NOT a drama like BSG as someone on this thread suggested. After a good setup, I found BSG unwatchable: depressing, nihilistic, and it completely trashed the Starbuck character.

I'm obviously in the minority (although Cloudane said he liked it), but I actually like this episode. Yes, the central premise - that beings as advanced as the Q would need help from humans, is far-fetched. But would you put that aside, I think this is episode is pretty good, though not great. I would give it 2.5 stars.

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• Added Alliterative Appeal : Q tells his son that it's " s ingle- c ellular c ity" for him if he doesn't shape up to be the ideal Q within a week on board Voyager .
• Aesop Collateral Damage : Q states that if Icheb has to die to teach Junior a lesson, so be it.
• Badass Fingersnap : Subverted - Q Junior learns that he's been Brought Down to Normal when he snaps his fingers and nothing happens.
• Brick Joke : The episode starts with Icheb delivering a verbal history essay that has Janeway on the verge of falling asleep . Later on, when Q2 delivers a history essay to Janeway, she quickly recognizes it as Icheb's work instead of Q2's.
• Brought Down to Normal : Q Jr. is stripped of his powers as a punishment.
• Obviously, to " The Q and the Grey ", when Q Junior was born.
• Junior himself makes a few when suggesting fun things to do. "We could fly into fluidic space and fight Species 8472 . Or we could detonate a few Omega molecules ."
• When presented with a holodeck simulation of a diplomatic crisis, Junior's solution is to reprogram the simulation to make it easier to win .
• Junior's deciding to give the replicator a personality (that sasses Janeway) is a Mythology Gag harking back to " Tomorrow Is Yesterday " in the original series, in which some alien women were convinced that the Enterprise 's computer needed a personality, and so decided to give it one (that proceeded to flirt with Kirk).
• Apparently, this is no longer the winning solution that it was in Kirk's day. note  Then again, Kirk did so against a simulation specifically meant to be unwinnable, and in the Kobayashi Maru novel (and the 2009 film), it's shown he did so with panache rather than trying to slip it past the testers.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu : From Q himself: "If the Continuum has told you once, they've told you 1000 times— DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG! "
• "Groundhog Day" Loop : Not seen onscreen, but Q's son temporarily traps the crew in a never-ending loop of repeating the same 30 seconds over and over so he could speak alone to the Captain.
• Heel–Face Turn : Janeway's ultimatum to Q's son gets him to start turning his life around.
• Hope Spot : In universe, Junior was supposed to symbolize the ending and post-Q Civil War peace (as was intended back in "The Q and the Grey"). Unfortunately, he quickly dashed those hopes by turning into an absolute little shit .
• Humanity Ensues : Junior gets turned human as a punishment.
• I Hate Past Me : Q is clearly experiencing this in combination with Parental Hypocrisy , as Q Junior's antics reflect his own history as a cosmic troll. For instance, who else can we think of that once amused themselves by provoking the Borg or been sentenced to sensitivity training sans powers ...
• I Kiss Your Foot : Q tries to kiss Janeway in the tub, but Janeway blocks him with her foot, so he kisses it instead.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl : One of Q's son's antics has him attempt to annoy Seven by using his powers to remove her clothes, but she simply ignores him and continues working unfazed.
• Insignia Rip-Off Ritual : After Q Junior is turned into a human, Janeway removes his captain pips.
• Insult of Endearment : Q's son calls Icheb "Itchy" and he gets called "Q-ball" in return.
• Intrigued by Humanity : Q says that Junior was always fascinated by his stories of humanity but Junior admits to finding them boring after spending 20 minutes with them.
• Ironic Echo : Q Junior claims that he doesn't have to listen to Janeway because she doesn't have "unlimited control of space, matter, and time." Later, after he's turned human, Janeway reminds him that he no longer has "unlimited control of space, matter, and time."
• It's All My Fault : Q's son realizes it's his fault that Icheb was nearly killed and is willing to take full responsibility for it when he and Captain Janeway confront the alien that he attacked.
• Landing in Someone's Bathtub : Q does this to Janeway after he tries her suggestion and finds out that it didn't work .
• Laser-Guided Karma : Played for Laughs —after Q's son loses his powers and Neelix gets his voice back, he proceeds to be as annoying as possible around the teenaged Q.
• Misapplied Phlebotinum : A powerless Junior was able to create a " spatial flexure " (a sort of wormhole that's implied to be able to take them anywhere) by messing around with the Delta Flyer's deflector array. This is never mentioned again and nobody considers using it to get Voyager home.
• A Mommy To Her Crew : Why Q feels that Janeway is a better parent than he is.
• Naked Freak-Out : Q's son tries to invoke this with Seven by making her clothes disappear. It fails, because she is an Innocent Fanservice Girl (more accurately, naked freak-outs are irrelevant).
• The Nudifier : Junior making Seven's clothes disappear.
• Our Wormholes Are Different : The Spatial Flexures Junior creates by manipulating the Delta Flyer's deflector array.
• Parental Hypocrisy : Q reprimands his son for placing Borg cubes in Voyager ' s path. Q is responsible for the Federation making First Contact with the Borg in " Q Who ".
• Plagiarism in Fiction : When Janeway assigns Junior an essay on the Q Continuum, Icheb offers to give him a few notes on a PADD. Cut to Junior turning an essay in to Janeway... Janeway: Insightful, informative. I'm impressed. Too bad you didn't write it. Junior: What do you mean? Janeway: I'd recognize Icheb's style anywhere. Junior: He gave me a few notes on my first draft, that's all. (Janeway gives him a Death Glare that says "Yeah, right")
• Pleasure Planet : The Clevari System. Junior suggests swimming with mermaids and challenging a warrior goddess to a grappling contest.
• Also an unintentional case, as John De Lancie is noticeably older than his previous appearances, despite the Q's immortality.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia : Janeway is stunned when Q smooches her on the mouth without permission.
• Power Perversion Potential : Q's son at one point uses his reality warping abilities to strip Seven of her clothes by making them disappear.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis! : "If the Continuum’s told you once, they’ve told you a thousand times… DON’T. PROVOKE. THE BORG! "
• Put on a Bus : Q's wife in the interim since "The Q and the Grey". See Screw This, I'm Outta Here! for more details.
• Race-Name Basis : The younger Q addresses Neelix as "Talaxian".
• Reality Warper : Both Q and Q's son.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here! : The status of Q's wife in the interim since "The Q and the Grey". She's been so humiliated by her son's behavior that she's disowned him, leaving her husband to clean up the mess.
• Secret Test of Character : Q arranges one when his son steals the Delta Flyer and effectively kidnaps Icheb.
• Sequel Episode : To Season Three's " The Q and the Grey " and completing the Q-VOY Trilogy that began with Season Two's " Death Wish ".
• Teens Are Monsters : Especially one with unlimited control of space, matter, and time.
• Took a Level in Kindness : Q's son, and boy did he need it.
• Took a Shortcut : Q rewards Janeway with a datapad that has information that'll shave a few years off their journey home. What it actually tells her to do is never specified.
• Toplessness from the Back : Seven after Q2 disappears her catsuit.
• Tranquil Fury : Janeway is quietly pissed when Q2 tries to cheat his way through the tests, especially since he thinks he can fool her. Janeway: We may be common bipeds, but we're not stupid.
• Vengeful Vending Machine : Q's son magicks the replicators so that it sasses Janeway when she asks for a coffee. Captain Janeway: Coffee, black. Replicator: Make it yourself. Janeway: ("WTF?" expression)
• Wild Teen Party : Q's son turns Engineering into a 24th century rave , which disrupts activities going on until he restores everything to normal.
• Wipe That Smile Off Your Face : Not only does Q's son remove Neelix's mouth to get him to shut up, he also removes his vocal cords.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside : Q agrees to spend some quality time with his son. Janeway is relieved to get rid of him for a while, but he turns up in her bath a short time later. Well, it was a long time for a Q! Janeway: You've been gone for 10 minutes! Q: On your temporal plane, maybe! But in Q Time, we've spent years together!
• You Talk Too Much! : Q's son says this to Neelix right before zapping his vocal cords and sealing his mouth .
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• The exasperated Continuum have permitted Q to deposit his bratty adolescent son, Junior, on Voyager with the hope that Janeway (the boy's godmother) can provide the parenting they lack. How Janeway and her crew can control an omniscient and all-powerful teenager hungering for malicious entertainment becomes an insurmountable problem, so Q removes his son's powers, leaving him fully human. — statmanjeff

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According to an interview with the elder John de Lancie, the younger de Lancie was required to undergo the same interview and audition process for the role of Q (Junior) as any other actor. The younger de Lancie read for the part of Q (Junior) against several competitors and was determined by the Voyager casting director to be the best actor for the part, having also done very well in the audition. The senior de Lancie has mainly clarified this in interviews to dispel any rumors that his son had earned the role as a cameo or strictly due to being the son of the primary Q actor.

He also had roles in the movies Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday , Exit to Eden (with Iman and Stephanie Niznik ), and The Velocity of Gary (with Olivia d'Abo ), as well as episodes of The Drew Carey Show and Ally McBeal (with Renee E. Goldsberry ).

In 2009, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Peace, War and Defense Studies as well as Arab Cultures. After graduation, he spent another year at the Qasid Institute taking classes in Arabic literature, media and classical grammar. From 2008 to 2009, he was also a Fulbright Fellow at the US Department of State and is currently serving as a US Foreign Service Officer.

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The 'Star Trek Voyager' Cast Then and Now, Sharing What They Thought of Their Characters (EXCLUSIVE)

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One of the revolutionary aspects of the Star Trek Voyager cast was the fact that sitting in the captain's seat was a woman, which was a much bigger deal when the show premiered than people today might realize. "I'm not even remotely surprised at how much attention the fact that the show had a female captain attracted," says Kate Mulgrew , who portrays Captain Kathryn Janeway. "This is the human condition. It's a novelty. I think that it piqued a mass kind of curiosity and it's very typical of our nature as human beings. I do suppose that one has to always refer to the gender in this regard. I am a woman, and that lends itself to maternity, to compassion, to warmth — to a lot of qualities which our culture has encouraged in women."

Airing from 1995 to 2001 for a total of 172 episodes, Voyager was actually the fourth live action Star Trek series, following on the heels of William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk on the original series (1966 to 1969), Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 to 1994) and Avery Brooks as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 to 1999). All in all, an impressive history, yet, again, Voyager had that one element that none of the others did.

In the series, the starship Voyager has mysteriously found itself transported to the distant fringes of the galaxy and has begun the 75-year trek back home. Complicating matters is that the Voyager had been pursuing a vessel, commanded by a crew of Maquis rebels (Federation-born colonists and disaffected Starfleet officers organized against the Cardassian occupation of their homes in a Demilitarized Zone), and has been stranded with them, resulting in the crews having to be integrated, offering the potential of inherent conflict between these characters.

What follows is a look at how the Star Trek Voyager cast came together and where they've been since the series ended.

Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

The casting of Captain Janeway was an arduous process, with a wide variety of possible names being bandied about, including Lindsay Wagner ( The Bionic Woman ), Linda Hamilton ( Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator ), Erin Gray ( Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ), Susan Gibney (who had appeared on a pair of Next Generation episodes), Joanna Cassidy ( Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ) and Kate Mulgrew.

The first person hired for the part was French actress Genevieve Bujold, but shortly after shooting of the pilot began, it was obvious that she was not the right person for the job. She herself was terribly unhappy, used to the schedule of shooting films and not the rapid-fire nature of television production. So Mulgrew auditioned.

"I came in," the actress explains, "and they gave me two very big scenes. One was the monologue, 'We're lost in an uncharted part of the galaxy....,' and the other was with Tuvok, establishing the depth and breadth of our friendship. I loved them both. And I made two very bold decisions in the room... not bold, but I played the scene with Tuvok with high humor, as Janeway did throughout her entire relationship with Tuvok, because he's so Vulcan. I was always trying to ruffle his feathers.

"So," she continues, "that was full of laughs, and a certain underlying vulnerability, which I thought was very important to show; that her capacity for friendship was great indeed. And necessary to her, as a person. And with the monologue, I did it to them. I gave it to the producers. I turned to them as if they were my crew, looked right at them and I said that I would get us through this. And I remember thinking, 'Well, now it's up to you.'"

Needless to say, she was brought aboard to command the starship. Prior to doing so, Mulgrew, born April 29, 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, appeared in eight movies, including Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) and Throw Momma from the Train (1987), but had really made her mark earlier as Mary Ryan Fenelli on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1975 to 1978). Additionally, she played the title role in the ill-fated Mrs. Columbo (1979 to 1980, which went through a title change to Kate Loves a Mystery ); made many episodic guest appearances, including three episodes of Cheers in 1986; and starred in HeartBeat (1988 to 1989) and Man of the People (1991 to 1992).

It should be noted that Mulgrew had pressures added to part of Janeway that her preceding captains decidedly did not . "For months," she says, "they came to the set. — the brass, not just my producers. The Paramount guys came and stood at the lip of the bridge and scrutinized me, my hair, my bosom, my heels ... All of which was meant to inform me of the importance of this part, and that I was being watched. It was very simple. Nothing was stated. I'm sure they did it with Patrick Stewart... for two seconds. And Shatner for even less. But millions, if not billions, of dollars were at stake with this franchise, so they had to make sure. I think in the end they were pleased. It did work, but I would really say that it wasn't easy.

"Comparisons," she adds, "as Oscar Wilde would say, are odious, but the men never had to deal with the physical component, the sexual component, the way that I did. I was scrutinized because of my gender, by all of these guys. 'She's got a big bosom, she's got beautiful hair, she's still of childbearing years, how are we going to make this thing work?'"

She found herself in makeup and having her hair worked on constantly, and all of the arguments and conversations were about her physicality, not about her characterization of Janeway.

"I really grew to envy, especially, Patrick Stewart," Mulgrew laughs, "who probably had nothing to do except walk from his trailer to the set. He had a great ease. I had to add an additional three hours to my day, with two young sons at home, and all this technobabble, and wanting to be able to ace that, wanting to be able to understand it, and get underneath it, was quite challenging for the first year. I'm sure there was some resentment there on my part. I'm sure there was some frustration and anger. Of course, I'm human and, my God, I was tired. But I'm Irish, so the 'I'll show them!' part of me surpasses every other thing. Which is why she not only succeeded, she thrived, Janeway, because I was determined."

Following Voyager , Mulgrew starred in the comedy NTSF:SD:SUV (2011 to 2013), the critically acclaimed Orange is the New Black as Galina "Red" Reznikov (2013 to 2019), Mr. Mercedes (2019), The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022) and has even reprised Janeway, vocally, on the animated Star Trek Prodigy , which launched in 2021. Married twice, she's the mother of three and is 68.

Robert Beltran as First Officer Chakotay in the Star Trek Voyager Cast

Chakotay is the Native American captain of the Maquis vessel, who ends up serving as first officer aboard the Voyager under Janeway’s command. The actor cast in the role was Robert Adams Beltran, born on November 19, 1953 in Bakersfield, California. Graduating with a Theater Arts degree from California State University, Fresno, he scored his first film role in 1981's Zoot Suit , which was followed by a part in the television series Models, Inc. , and, in 1982, by Paul Bartel’s cult classic Eating Raoul, 1983's Lone Wolf McQuade, 1984's Night of the Comet, 1990's El Diablo .

He also achieved extensive stage experience, appearing in 22 shows between 1979's California Shakespeare Festival and 2011's Devil's Advocate . On television, there have been a dozen TV movies and guest appearances.

As to Star Trek: Voyager , says Beltran, "At that point in my career, I was thinking it would be good to do a television series, and so I began to concentrate on finding one. Then, when my agent called me to tell me about the Voyager pilot, I thought, ‘Great, I’ll be happy to audition for it.' It could be an important gig in that it could be a substantial amount of years with steady employment that would make my old age much more comfortable."

“I wouldn’t have auditioned,” he adds, “if I didn’t find something valuable in the character. I liked the script very much, and I auditioned wholeheartedly to get the role. It was one of the easiest processes I’ve ever gone through in getting a job, ironically. I like the role of Chakotay. I thought that he was open-ended and could really go somewhere with the right kind of writing. I was very much interested in playing the role and seeing what I could do with it.”

Since being a member of the Star Trek Voyager cast, Beltran has appeared in seven films. He most recently provided the voice of Chakotay in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . Now 70, the actor is the father of one child.

Tim Russ as Second Officer/Security Officer/Tactical Officer Tuvok

Serving as Science Officer amongst the Star Trek Voyager cast is Tuvok, a full-blooded Vulcan (unlike Leonard Nimoy 's Spock on the original Star Trek ), who is played by Mr. Saturday Night 's Tim Russ . Born January 22, 1956 in Washington, D.C., prior to becoming part of the show, he guest starred on a number of different series, and starred in nine episodes of The Highwayman (1987 to 1988).

Says Russ, "There was a very big victory for me in getting this. I had been interested in working on Star Trek ever since the original Next Generation was created, and I read for a role back then. I did not know at the time that LeVar Burton was also ging to be considered for the role of Geordi La Forge. So it was in retrospect that I realized that producer Rick Berman had been in my corner ever since. Tuvok was similar to his predecessor, Mr. Spock, in that he has to maintain a certain consistency with the Vulcan principles and philosophy that we upheld. But there was also an exploration of my character as an individual in terms of the intricacies of his personality and what his intentions may be."

He believes he had the edge over most people reading for the part, because of how well he intrinsically knew who this character was. "Tuvok is definitely based on Spock," Russ explains. "Why does everybody like Spock? Why was he genuinely — over Captain Kirk, even — the most popular character on that show? It's because he was what we all want to be. We want to be perfect, we want to be able to overcome all the trials we have to deal with. The character is so interesting to watch, because every situation that came up, you'd want to see what Spock would do, you wanted to see how he reacted — and you enjoyed watching him just completely confused and baffled by human beings. You could forget that he was part human.

"So, coming into the reading, I was armed to the teeth with this character. And casting is generally 80 percent personality and 20 percent talent. I'm not saying I'm able to do the things the way Tuvok does, it's just that I do like to approach things from an analytical or logical standpoint. If you are 100 percent Vulcan, obviously there's no choice between being human or Vulcan. Spock had to maker a choice. Tuvok never had to make that choice. It's like an athlete who trains to do the decathlon and an athlete who's born to do the decathlon. The person who comes into this world destined by nature to do it, has the edge."

Since being a part of the Star Trek Voyager cast, Russ has worked steadily in television, including 11 episodes of iCarly (2007 to 2012), 35 episodes of Samantha Who? (2007 to 2009), reprising the role of Tuvok, promoted to captain, in a pair of episodes of Star Trek: Picard (2003) and as an E.R. doctor in Seth Macfarlane's TV version of Ted (2024). Now 67, Russ has one child.

Garrett Wang as Operations Officer Harry Kim

Harry Kim, played by Angry Cafe 's Garrett Wang, is fresh out of Starfleet Academy in the premiere, and serves as the starship's ops and communications officer. For his part, Wang was born December 15, 1966 in Riverside, California. Prior to joining the Star Trek Voyager cast he appeared in a few commercials and made a guest appearance in a 1994 episode of All-American Girl . Playing Harry Kim was his big break.

"I remember thing at the time," he reflects, "that this must have been a dream that I was going to wake up from soon. It is kind of amazing when you think about the legacy we were following, because there really isn't any other TV series I can think of that originally aired in the Sixties and kept on going and going and going. it's kind of like an intergalactic Energizer Bunny."

Since the end of the series, he's been in about half a dozen films and made a couple of TV guest appearances. He's currently 55.

Roxann Dawson as Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres

Voyager 's seemingly requisite alien-human hybrid was B'Elanna Torres ( with Roxann Dawson joining the Star Trek Voyager cast), the half-Klingon chief engineer who, like Spock on the original series, wages an inner war with the intertwining blood of two species. The actress was born on September 11, 1958 in Los Angeles, and she made her acting debut in a Broadway production of A Chorus Line . A few film roles would follow as would TV guest appearances and regular roles in Nightingales (1989) and The Round Table (1992).

"I'm of Latino descent, but that something that wasn't brought up in any way, because it really doesn't make a difference," points out Dawson about being made part of the Star Trek Voyager cast. "I love that the attention was brought to the fact that she's half-human and half-Klingon. I love that the conversation regarding Tuvok centered around the fact that he is Vulcan and that we don't discuss that he's a black Vulcan. And I love the fact that nobody on the crew, except for one little moment, discusses that it's a big deal that we have a female captain. What matters is character, how we're coming across and who we are as people."

The interesting thing for her to explore was the turmoil and continuing attempt to reconcile the two sides of her, which formed the conflict she wanted to explore. "One of the reasons fans identified with B'Elanna is that we all, to a certain degree, have two or more sides to us that are at war. It's a universal idea and I loved that the character could explore that so tangibly."

"She’s so afraid of being abandoned that she will leave every situation first. That’s why she left Starfleet Academy before she could be expelled, even though she was never going to be expelled. She operates very much on fear. This is not uncommon; we all do that to some degree. A lot of people will often want to have the control in their hands and move away from any situation that would put them at risk or make them vulnerable."

During the run of Voyager , she began directing episodes and since the show concluded, that's been the focus of her career, having amassed 61 behind-the-camera credits. Most recently she's directed episodes of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Horror of Dolores Roach and Apple TV Plus' Foundation . Married twice, she's the mother of two. Roxann Dawson is 65.

Robert Picardo as Chief Medical Officer The Doctor

One of the show’s most offbeat characters is the Doctor ( Robert Picardo , then known for The Wonder Years ), an Experimental Medical Program (EMP). The holographic Doctor is a virtual medical officer taking care of the crew’s needs and serving as ship doctor when the vessel is stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

Offers producer Rick Berman, "Robert Picardo was just wonderful in the same way that we always have characters that served as a mirror to human culture. Spock did that in the original series, Data did it The Next Generation and here our decision was to create a doctor who was, in fact, a hologram. Like Data, someone who was not human but wanted to be human. We also wanted this character to be poignant at times, but to be quite funny, because he was nothing but a program — but one who would have a sense of ascension to him. That's a very important word in Star Trek , ascension. It ends up not meaning what anybody thinks it means, but Picardo was one of the truly natural and talented actors that we have worked with and he provided us with some of the funniest stuff we've ever done."

Picardo was born on October 27, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since the end of the series, he's appeared in 17 films and dozens of television episodes, including as Richard Woolsey on both Stargate SG-1 (seven episodes between 2004 and 2007) and Stargate: Atlantis (26 episodes between 2006 and 2009). He portrayed Ithamar Conkey in the 2019 to 2021 Apple TV+ series Dickinson . Now 70, he's been married once and has two children.

Robert Duncan McNeill as Helmsman Tom Paris in the Star Trek Voyager Cast

One of the early characters to be part of the Star Trek Voyager cast was Lieutenant Tom Paris, a member of the Maquis who comes to serve as the helmsman of Voyager . The role would go to actor Robert Duncan McNeill . Born November 9, 1964 in Raleigh, North Carolina, although he enjoyed some early TV guest appearance and stage work, he played Charlie Brent on the daytime soap opera All My Children from 1985 to 1988. He was in four episodes of Homefront (1992) and 17 episodes of Going to Extremes (1992 to 1993).

Says producer Rick Berman of McNeill joining the Star Trek franchise, "It had been a while since we had a young, attractive white guy on the show. It just turned out that most of the characters were either alien or black in the previous shows and here we had a woman in a major role. With Robbie, there was something very charming and delightful about him. He was a very good choice."

For his part, McNeill notes, "One thing that I think was interesting about Voyager is that every character had a great backstory. That's what made it interesting. Everybody's got sort of a dark side – an edge – which is different than the other Star Trek shows. A great thing about the show is that as an actor, sometimes you do work and then it's forgotten or you do a play and 50 people see it. One thing that's great about this is that for the rest of our lives, people will know this part of our work and it's great to have that sort of longevity."

Like Roxann Dawson, following Voyager he made the shift to directing and hasn't looked back, helming dozens of episodes, most recently True Lies in 2023. From 2007 to 2012, he was a director and producer on the spy series Chuck. Married twice, the 59-year-old is the father of three.

Ethan Phillips as Cook and Morales Officer Neelix

Winrich Kolbe, who directed the pilot episode "Caretaker" and was very involved with the casting, states, "Neelix was rather easy to cast. We narrowed it down to three actors, and Ethan Phillips was the one who pulled out. He was an inspired choice, and he was the life of the party on the set."

Ethan Phillips was born on February 8, 1955 in Garden City, New York, and came to be part of the Star Trek Voyager cast after an extensive career in theater, with dozens of shows to his credit. He's also been in 40 films between 1981's Ragtime and 2018's Most Likely to Murder . There are dozens of TV appearances, though viewers probably recognize him best from playing Pete Downey on the 1980 to 1985 sitcom Benson .

"I think Neelix is a pretty lovable guy," opines Phillips of his Star Trek character. "It's an amazing role, because there are so many colors to the man and it may be one of the best roles I've ever had an opportunity to play. There's something deep and heightened about him, and playing him is an incredible challenge."

Now 69, he was married to Patricia Cresswell from 1990 until her death in 2022. They have three children.

Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in the Star Trek Voyager Cast

In season four, with the intent of improving ratings, the decision was made to add a sexier character to the Star Trek Voyager cast in the form of actress Jeri Ryan as a Borg — member of the cybernetic race — who has been separated from the hive collective and is gradually reclaiming her humanity. While dressing the character in a skintight outfit had the desired impact on ratings, she also introduced a dynamic character ripe with the possibility of evolution and created a strong connection between Seven and Captain Janeway.

Jery Lynn Ryan was born on February 22, 1968 in Munich, West Germany. Her father, a master sergeant in the U.S. Army, retired when she was 11, and the family moved to Paducah, Kentucky. Her earliest TV roles were as a gust star in Who's the Boss?, Melrose Place, Matlock and The Sentinel , before she was cast as a series regular in the sci-fi drama Dark Skies (1996 to 1997). Star Trek Voyager was next in 1997.

Comments series writer Bryan Fuller, "Seven of Nine was raised in the wild by wolves, if you will, and now has to be trained to be human again. It was such a beautiful story and I love the dynamic between Seven of Nine, Janeway and the Doctor. That's the triumvirate from Voyager that I thought was so effective emotionally and that kind of harkened back in a different way to the triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the original series."

Adds executive producer Brannon Braga, "Each character on the show was affected by this new infusion of energy and it reinvigorated the show. What was genius about the character is that she was utterly oblivious to her own sexuality and found it irrevelevant."

Concurs Ryan herself, "I had no problem with an overtly sexual physical appearance, because it was the complete opposite — such a polar opposite — to the character herself. I'm not saying that's why the character works, but it's a huge part of why she worked as well. Look, I'm a mom, so my number one priority when I pick a role is to pick something I'd be proud for my daughter to watch, or my son at the time because I didn't have a daughter then. I'm proud of this character for any young girl growing up to look at as a kind of role model. It's part of life. You have incredibly intelligent people in all types of appearances."

"You can be a bombshell and be really intelligent - you're not a ditz because you're blond and have a figure," she elaborates. "And people stereotype someone dressed in tight or sexy clothing and assume you're stupid. That's one of my biggest pet peeves with Hollywood and that's why the role of Seven of Nine was so refreshing. When I read the scene they'd written for her and talked to the producers and listened to what they were going to go with her, it was just the opposite of that. I'm a National Merit Scholar. I was not a dumb kid growing up, but to be assumed to be stupid is something that drives me crazier than anything."

Following Voyager, she appeared in 59 episodes of legal drama Boston Public (2001 to 2004), and had recurring roles in Two and a Half Men (2004 to 2011), The O.C. (2005), Shark (2006 to 2008), Leverage (2009 to 2011), Body of Proof (2011 to 2013), Bosch (2016 to 2019) and, reprised the role of Seven of Nine in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard (2020 to 2023). Most recently she appeared in four episodes of Dark Winds (2023). Ryan, 55, has been married twice and is the mother of two.

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8 Alpha Quadrant Things Star Trek: Voyager Found In Delta Quadrant

• Star Trek: Voyager finds familiar things from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant, sparking important questions and connections.
• Encounter with Ferengi negotiators leads Voyager crew to stop their interference in a pre-warp civilization for profits.
• Janeway and crew discover humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s living in the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart.

For a show with the conceit of being so far from home, Star Trek: Voyager found a surprising number of things in the Delta Quadrant that originated in the Alpha Quadrant, including several from Earth itself. The USS Voyager, commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and Commander Chakotay's (Robert Beltran) Maquis raider Val Jean were both brought to the Delta Quadrant in 2371 by the Caretaker (Basil Langton). After Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array to save the Ocampa , Voyager and the Val Jean were left without a ticket back to the Alpha Quadrant, and banded together to make the long journey.

Finding something familiar in an otherwise totally alien corner of the galaxy brought a sense of familiarity to the USS Voyager crew and viewers at home alike, but the presence of something from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant inevitably raised important questions , like how familiar people and objects traveled 70,000 light years from home in the first place, and whether the find could lead Captain Kathryn Janeway towards a quicker path home to Earth.

Star Trek: Voyagers 20 Best Episodes Ranked

A pair of ferengi negotiators, arridor and kol, star trek: voyager season 3, episode 5 "false profits".

The USS Voyager encounters a pair of Ferengi negotiators, Arridor (Dan Shor) and Kol (Leslie Jordan), who claim to be the prophesied Great Sages of the Takarians, a society with Bronze Age level technology. The Ferengi have no Prime Directive to deter them from interfering with the Takarians' development , so they're performing "miracles" with a standard replicator to reap the monetary benefits of the Takarians' worship. Voyager's crew know the Ferengi reputation well enough to know they're no Sages, so they must figure out how to put a stop to Arridor and Kol's grift.

"False Profits" serves as a Star Trek sequel episode to Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 8 "The Price", as Voyager catches up with Arridor and Kol (formerly played by J. R. Quinonez) seven years after their Delta Quadrant arrival. The Ferengi took a test flight through the supposedly stable wormhole near Barzan II, which was supposed to emerge in the Gamma Quadrant, but instead stranded the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant, where they made the best of their situation as only Ferengi can.

Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 23 "Distant Origin"

"Distant Origin" opens on Forra Gegen (Henry Woronicz), a scientist who discovers that his people, the Voth, share certain genetic similarities with the humans aboard the USS Voyager. While this confirms Gegen's theory that the Voth are the descendants of a species brought to their homeworld millions of years ago , religious leader Minister Odala (Concetta Tomei) refuses to accept the truth. Even with Commander Chakotay present as a living specimen of humanity, Odala pushes Gegen to recant, because Gegen's theory goes against the Voth Doctrine that keeps Odala in power.

After meeting Gegen's assistant, Tova Veer (Christopher Liam Moore), Janeway and the Doctor use the holodeck as a research guide to extrapolate how hadrosaurs might look in the 24th century if they'd been able to evolve into a humanoid form with comparable intelligence. The result resembles Veer, so Janeway and the Doctor conclude, like Gegen, that the Voth evolved from hadrosaurs into a highly advanced species on Earth , then fled to the Delta Quadrant in spacefaring vessels instead of being wiped out with the other dinosaurs.

The Friendship One Probe

Star trek: voyager season 7, episode 21 "friendship one".

By Star Trek: Voyager season 7 , the USS Voyager is in regular contact with Starfleet Command, and Starfleet gives Voyager a mission to retrieve a 21st-century Earth probe, Friendship One . The probe proves difficult to find, but once discovered on an alien planet suffering devastating climate collapse, the implications of Friendship One's launch become clear. Besides the irreversible damage to the planet's climate, the inhabitants are all suffering from radiation sickness, and bear understandable hostility towards Earth, because the aliens believe humans orchestrated their destruction with the Friendship One probe.

The United Earth Space Probe Agency was one of the early names for the organization the USS Enterprise belongs to in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Charlie X".

Friendship One was launched in 2067 by the United Earth Space Probe Agency with the intention of making friends with whomever found it, as the name implies. Although Friendship One, the 400-year-old Earth probe, traveled for centuries carrying messages of peace, musical recordings, and ways to translate languages, the people who discovered Friendship One in the Delta Quadrant took a greater interest in the antimatter it used to travel across space. Without the proper knowledge of its use, antimatter proved devastating to the planet and its people, resulting in death and disease for generations.

Dreadnought, a Cardassian Missile

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 17 "dreadnought".

The USS Voyager discovers a dangerously powerful, self-guided Cardassian missile in the Delta Quadrant, which Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) recognizes as one nicknamed "Dreadnought" . When B'Elanna was with the Maquis, Torres had actually reprogrammed the missile herself, with the intention of turning the Cardassians' own weapon against them. Without a Cardassian target in sight, the artificially intelligent Cardassian Dreadnought targets a heavily-populated Class-M planet , Rakosa V. B'Elanna determines she must be the one to keep Dreadnought from hurting anyone else, and boards the missile to convince it to stand down.

While no concrete reason is given for exactly how the Dreadnought wound up in the Delta Quadrant, its last known location in the Alpha Quadrant was the Badlands, the same rough patch of space where Voyager and the Val Jean, Chakotay's Maquis raider, fatefully met. Because of this, Torres theorizes that Dreadnought arrived in the Delta Quadrant the same way that Voyager and the Val Jean did , courtesy of the Caretaker.

Star Trek: Voyagers BElanna Is More Klingon Than TNGs Worf Ever Was

A klingon d-7 class cruiser, complete with klingons, star trek: voyager, season 7, episode 14 "prophecy".

The USS Voyager certainly never expected to find a Klingon ship in the Delta Quadrant, but more surprising is the fact that the crew of the Klingon D-7 Class Cruiser believes their savior, the prophesied kuvah'magh, is aboard Voyager . Janeway assures the Klingon captain, Kohlar (Wren T. Brown), that the Federation and Klingon Empire have been allies for the past 80 years, and offers Voyager's own half-Klingon, Lt. B'Elanna Torres, as proof their societies are working together now. The kuvah'magh is Torres' unborn daughter, who does save the Klingons, but not the way they expected.

Centuries ago, Kohlar's great-grandfather set off on a quest to find the kuvah'magh, and the Klingon D-7 Cruiser became a generation ship that is now crewed by the descendants of its original crew . The quest begun by Kohlar's great-grandfather brought Kohlar and his crew to the Delta Quadrant after four generations of searching. Whether B'Elanna's child is actually the kuvah'magh or not, Kohlar desperately wants the baby to be their savior, so that his people may finally rest.

Amelia Earhart

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 1 "the 37s".

The discovery of a 1936 Ford truck, seemingly disconnected from any parent vehicle, leads the USS Voyager to a nearby Class-L planet, where they find eight humans who have been in cryo-stasis since they were abducted by aliens in the 1930s. Among them are one of Janeway's personal heroes, legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) , who disappeared without a trace while attempting to fly around the world, and Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan (David Graf). Earhart and the other preserved humans are known by the planet's inhabitants as "The 37s", and revered as sacred.

Originally thought to be aliens, the natives of the unnamed planet are the descendants of humans. A species called the Briori abducted the natives' ancestors, along with Earhart and the other 37s, from Earth centuries earlier , and took them to the Delta Quadrant. Once held as slaves, the humans who weren't in stasis revolted to free themselves from the Briori, and developed a thriving, Earth-like civilization in the Delta Quadrant. Voyager's crew consider staying with the humans in their little slice of home, while Janeway also offers a ride back to Earth to anyone who wants it, including Amelia Earhart.

The USS Equinox

Star trek: voyager season 5, episode 26 & season 6, episode 1 "equinox".

The crew of the USS Voyager believe they're the only Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant until they find the USS Equinox, five years into their journey home. Captain Rudolph Ransom (John Savage) and the Equinox crew have had a harder time in the Delta Quadrant than Voyager, with more damage, fewer starting resources, and fewer opportunities to make friends along the way. Ransom's survival tactics include sacrificing innocent nucleogenic life forms for a more efficient form of fuel, which Janeway finds hard to stomach, and decides that Ransom needs to be held accountable for defying Federation ideals, regardless of how badly the Equinox is damaged.

Although Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) suggests that the Equinox might be in the Delta Quadrant on a rescue mission to find Voyager, the USS Equinox's specs don't fit the profile of a starship that would be assigned to a long-range mission. The explanation of how the Equinox arrived in the Delta Quadrant in the first place seems fairly simple, because Captain Ransom tells Janeway that the Equinox was also abducted by the Caretaker , just like Voyager, but the Equinox has only been in the Delta Quadrant for 2 years, and Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array 5 years earlier.

Seven of Nine

Debuts in star trek: voyager season 4, episode 1 "scorpion, part 2".

When Captain Kathryn Janeway allies with the Borg in order to secure safe passage across Borg space, Janeway refuses the cursory assimilation that the Borg want to use to communicate with Janeway and Voyager's crew, and instead requests a speaker for the Borg, citing the existence of Locutus (Patrick Stewart) as precedent. Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, is selected as the Borg drone to act as liaison between the Collective and Voyager, likely because Seven of Nine had once been a member of Species 5168, like most of Voyager's crew -- in other words, human.

Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey.

After Seven's link with the Collective is severed, more information about Seven's human origin comes to light. In Voyager season 4, episode 6 "The Raven", when Voyager nears the Hansens' ship, the USS Raven, memories of Seven's early life surface, revealing that Seven had been six-year-old human Annika Hansen , the daughter of Magnus Hansen (Kirk Baily) and Erin Hansen (Laura Stepp), Federation scientists who were studying the Borg when they were assimilated. Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey, showing the Raven arriving in the Delta Quadrant by following a Borg Cube through a transwarp conduit.

10 Ways USS Voyager Changed In Star Treks Delta Quadrant

Star Trek: Voyager links back to the greater Star Trek universe with people and starships from the Alpha Quadrant. Connections to the familiar were especially important early on, because Voyager 's place in the Star Trek franchise was established and aided by the legitimacy these finds offered. Later, when the USS Voyager used the Hirogen communications array to communicate with Starfleet Command, links back to the Alpha Quadrant were plentiful again, not only to prove that the USS Voyager was closer to home, but to help Star Trek: Voyager maintain connections to Star Trek and carry the franchise in its final years.

Star Trek: Voyager is available to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Voyager

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Michael Piller, Rick Berman

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Rating TV-PG