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To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager

To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager is an upcoming production from David Zappone 's 455 Films [1] and Le Big Boss Productions (Canada) [2] set to examine what made Star Trek: Voyager special twenty-five years after the series premiere, through new interviews with the cast and crew. The documentary conception came about because of the success of Zappone's prior Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary, What We Left Behind . [3]

The working title had previously been A Long Way Home: The Star Trek Voyager Documentary . [4] By March 2021, the film was being reported as yet untitled. [5]

Fundraising campaign [ ]

Production launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign on 1 March 2021 , raising more than $450,000 in the first twenty-four hours. [6] By 15 March 2021 , the campaign had become the most successful Indiegogo documentary campaign ever, reaching more than US$740,000. On March 28, the campaign funding reached and exceeded one million dollars. [7]

Features made possible by having reached various fundraising goals include additional 3D graphics and animations, filming a November 2021 cast reunion in London, expanding the film from 60 to 90+ minutes, composition of an original score for the film, and licensing the original title music from Jerry Goldsmith . [8]

The Indiegogo concluded on 31 March 2021 , having collected $1,260,245 from 11,728 backers, almost double the $630,000 raised by What We Left Behind , and breaking the record for most successful crowdfunded documentary (a title previously held by Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa (Save the Vault, Tell the Story) , at $1,126,036.) [9]

External links [ ]

• VoyagerDocumentary.com (X) – official website
• IndieGoGo campaign page
• The Voyager Documentary  at Facebook
• The Voyager Documentary at X (formerly Twitter)
• 1 Daniels (Crewman)

Star Trek: Voyager Documentary To the Journey Shares a Tantalizing First Look

Candid interviews look to highlight the in-production look back at the landmark trek series..

Between Discovery (which just concluded its fourth season ), the ongoing second season of Picard , the hype ahead of Strange New Worlds , and the spiffy new release of 1978's Star Trek: The Motion Picture , one might start to feel a little overstuffed on all things Trek . But here’s something to change your mind.

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Trekmovie.com shared a fresh peek at To the Journey , a new documentary about Star Trek: Voyager made by the same folks who created 2018's affectionate, in-depth look at Deep Space Nine , What We Left Behind . (This is not to be confused with The Center Seat , another new Trek documentary; that one’s coming to the History Channel this fall.) This latest missive is classified as a “teaser” but is actually a robust six-minute clip.

To really appreciate that clip, you kind of have to be a Voyager fan, since nobody is identified by name and if you hadn’t seen the show you might not immediately recognize Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Robert Beltran, Robert Duncan McNeill , Ethan Phillips, or Robert Picardo—though we’re going assume you instantly know who Kate “ Captain Janeway ” Mulgrew is! (There’s also some bonus George Takei, talking about Gene Roddenberry’s influence.) But you can just tell from their contributions that To the Journey is going to be a detailed, decidedly candid, and at times gloves-off look at this chapter in Trek history.

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The film’s website says To the Journey is “the most crowdfunded documentary film to date” (you can still support it though, if you want to get your own “ Tuvok Rocks !” t-shirt or any of the other perks), having raised $1.2 million —a budget that no doubt helped the crew gather so many interviews for the project. To the Journey is still in production, but once we learn more about a release date we will let you know.

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Voyager engineers keep on tickin' in new documentary 'It's Quieter in the Twilight'

Director Billy Miossi's engaging new film on NASA’s remaining Voyager team lands on May 19.

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft launched back in the summer of 1977 on a "grand tour" of the solar system and are still exploring more than 45 years later.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have both ventured into interstellar space and continue to beam data home to a small squad of remaining mission engineers and scientists.

This aged crew of engineers, operating out of unpretentious office space and foregoing promotions and planned retirement, have committed themselves to staying with the longest-running and farthest-reaching mission in NASA's history. Battling outdated technology and the march of time, Voyager's flight team sticks with humankind’s greatest exploration endeavor.  

Weigel Productions' "It's Quieter in the Twilight" is a new space documentary showcasing this dedicated team. Directed by Billy Miossi and produced by Matt Reynolds and Alissa Shapiro, the film arrives in theaters and on demand starting on May 19, 2023.  

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Here’s the official synopsis:

They watch the bright lights from a distance today. The headlines now go to big names with bigger bank accounts. But, they are comfortable in the quiet; it suits them. Yet this quirky team of brilliant engineers — like the Voyager spacecraft they pilot — are pushing the notion of true discovery, traveling among stars propelled only by dwindling sunlight. While the world has moved on to fancier ships and splashier front men — the celestial journey of the aging spacecraft transcends earthly boundaries — from rural South Korea, the Jim Crow South and the U.S./Mexico border to cement a joint commitment to the mission which has traveled the furthest in human history as the clock winds down.

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"There's a unique dichotomy that drew me into the story of the aging Voyager mission," Miossi said in a press statement. "The grandest feat of human exploration being steered by a humble few sitting in a drab office space. They seek no fame, no recognition. 

"Instead, they're content to quietly contribute a novel expertise for the sake of a deeper understanding of the vastness that exists beyond our world. Voyager is a once-in-a-lifetime, and perhaps many lifetimes, mission. And so much of what it has achieved over the past several decades is owed to a tiny team of engineers who have forgone promotions and, now, retirement. To understand them, their devotion, is what lies at the heart of 'It's Quieter in the Twilight.' I wanted the world to know these unsung explorers and to know the essential role they've played in humanity's most ambitious adventure."

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TREKCORE: What stage is the Voyager documentary at now, with your first interviews coming just before pandemic lockdowns started happening throughout the world — and what are your current priorities for the project?

ZAPPONE: We didn’t stop totally during COVID. I have to say we also couldn’t have done it without Garrett Wang (Harry Kim). Garrett has been such a supporter, and helped us with the launch immensely, as you’ve probably seen on social media and in our pitch video, and Tim Russ (Tuvok) and Robbie McNeill (Tom Paris), and Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Alice Krige (Borg Queen), everyone, and let’s not forget Connor! That’s actually my favorite part of the– [laughs] Just when Connor Trinneer ( Enterprise’s Trip Tucker). pops up.

We filmed a very extensive interview during COVID with Garrett — in person, because I do not want to resort to Zoom for this production — and we were able to get a very extensive interview with Robbie McNeil before he left for directing work in Canada. Others too, like Brannon Braga and Andre Bormanis.

I did not want to stop totally during the pandemic, and lose our momentum. We have done some interviews but now it’s akin to Deep Space Nine. We went into the crowdfunding with a good amount of it under our belt but this allows us to now do this right.

We are now looking at studios, we are hopefully going to be able to build a set to film in-person interviews like we did with What We Left Behind . Our priority now is really logistics, figuring out where to shoot.

The difference here is this cast is a bit spread out over the country. We might need multiple stages. I intend to do what we did with What We Left Behind . I’m not going to limit it to just the actors.

We’re about to interview series co-creator and showrunner Jeri Taylor; as many people know she hasn’t contributed to anything like this in a long time, but we’re going to be traveling to her and interviewing her in person. Rick Berman has already said yes.

We intend to go hopefully as deep into the production side and the writing side, as we did in What We Left Behind .

TREKCORE: You’re still early in to the ‘story’ development for the film, but do you have particular parts of Voyager’s history that you’re already eager to dive into — like Mulgrew’s turn as the first lead-role female captain?

ZAPPONE: Absolutely. Yes, you hit it right there. It’s the influence of these incredibly strong women on that show. Of course, it’s primarily Kate, but it’s Roxann Dawson (Torres), Jeri Ryan, and I would argue for Jennifer Lien (Kes) in the early seasons. Yes, the impact of how that changed television, and how that led to this whole revolution in STEM for women. That’s an avenue that we’re going to be exploring.

The other thing that’s interesting to me is the fact that the show was on a network it helped launch — UPN — I want to delve into that and the pressures that the producers were feeling… but I’m hoping to get the Paramount-side point of view as well.

But it’s really is up to the people that were involved — and where those stories take us — that will determine our role. I never go into these documentaries with a roadmap. We have an idea of the questions that we want to ask, but really, it’s going to depend on where the interviews take us.

TREKCORE: Several of us have been speculating wildly about the million-dollar “never-before-seen Voyager surprise” teased on the Indieogogo campaign… any hints?

ZAPPONE: I wish I could get into detail, but I really can’t.

From the Deep Space Nine film, I learned that this kind of project can’t just be talking heads; you can’t just cut from interview to interview to interview to interview to episode clip. We need something more than that, and for  What We Left Behind , the “DS9 Season 8 Writers’ Room” segment gave us that.

For Voyager , the truth is, we’re not sure yet exactly what kind of ‘surprise’ we are going to do — because we don’t own Star Trek . I will say, though, that we’re hoping to do something with the actors themselves, which will take a lot of negotiation and approval.

We have very high aspirations!

TREKCORE: What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about Voyager from the work you’ve done so far for the documentary?

ZAPPONE: Well, certainly, I’d heard what everybody else heard which is, “Oh, Voyager was not that great.” “The cast doesn’t get along.” I heard all these rumors. I was a fan from the jump, from 1995. I was in. I didn’t believe any of that. I knew the show was quality. There’s so much crossover between the creative from Deep Space Nine , Next Generation , Voyager , it’s the same group.

But also, being told by some people, “Well, there’s not a strong enough fan base for Voyager .” That’s the biggest surprise — and wow, did they underestimate the passion of these fans!

Let me just touch on the Star Trek Cruise . I can’t tell you how fortunate we are to have been on that last year — it was the only physical reunion that the Voyager cast had, since everything else was cancelled by the pandemic. More than that, the company that runs the Star Trek cruise let us use their Broadway-quality theater that they have on the ship.

The days on that ship were some of the longest days I’ve ever had in production. We were working 18 hour days, and happily. We just invited fans to come in and just tell us about what Voyager meant to you. That’s where I realized that  Voyager fandom really runs deem — and it’s got a lot of younger people in it, too

It’s not just people my age who watched it the first time around, it’s garnered an entire fandom, just like Deep Space Nine , an entirely new fan base from streaming. I think the episodic nature of Voyager lends to that. Yes, the metric that I’ve heard and everybody’s heard is that I think six out of the top 10 streamed Star Trek episodes on Netflix are Voyager . Now I get it.

TREKCORE: Will the film touch on the “continuing voyages” of the  Voyager crew — like Jeri Ryan coming back for Picard and Kate Mulgrew returning for Prodigy ?

ZAPPONE: Oh, absolutely — I can’t imagine that we would not cover that. I’m not going to limit it and just stop at “Endgame,” because the story doesn’t stop there. I mean did you see that terrific animated Janeway in the First Contact Day panels?

And what is she holding? That iconic coffee cup, which is proven to be one of our most popular Indiegogo perks — the demand for that coffee cup replica was one of the biggest surprises of the fundraiser.

I wish I could take credit for that — but that came from Paul Camuso who runs the William Shatner store . He said to me, “You know, Dave, I know the company that made that coffee mug they used in  Voyager , and we can get them recreated. People will want that mug!”

I’m blown away by the success of it.

TREKCORE: I’ve got to ask about your plans to remaster Voyager footage into high definition. Will you be using the same methods as you did for the DS9 documentary, assuming you get the green-light from CBS?

ZAPPONE: We’ve discussed everything with CBS and I can’t imagine that they’re going to have a problem with letting us move forward; they were thrilled with how well our DS9 remastering work turned out. We have so much DS9 footage, you wouldn’t believe how many hours we scanned.

That said, CBS Digital — the company that we used for the DS9 remastering, who also did the work for the  Next Generation Blu-ray project — no longer has their enormous scanning machines to scan the film, so now we need to find a new company and a new way to do this.

That part of the process is very difficult.

TREKCORE: We know that CBS doesn’t have easy access to a lot of the original Voyager CGI effects shots, because they didn’t have a preservation method in place.

ZAPPONE: No, and you you’d have a tough time finding computers to even run those. Those are all ancient computers at this point.

TREKCORE: Given that Voyager relied more heavily on CGI than Deep Space Nine did, is that going to make it more challenging to include some of the show’s effects sequences, like that high-def “Sacrifice of Angels” clip?

ZAPPONE: I don’t think so. Because we’re going to use the same brilliant effects people that we use on What We Left Behind . We have access to a lot of those original files through Ben Robinson, who runs the Star Trek Starships Collection for HeroCollector.

Plus, we’ve got people like Dan Curry, Mike and Denise Okuda… everybody is helping us. We’re going back to the original people that worked on the show to help us recreate these sequences.

I don’t think it’ll be any more difficult — at least I hope not.

TREKCORE: So with all that said, what’s the timeline look like for the project, from now to a world premiere?

ZAPPONE: Well, I’ve been kind of careful in my predictions, only because of COVID and what it’s done. I’m speaking to you from from Paramount Studios which for three months was closed down and we couldn’t access its facilities.

I was informed three hours before it was shut down last year, meaning our editor had to rush over here, grab all the computers, hard drives, and everything else, and get out — and if we hadn’t done that, we would have gone for months without anything to work with, even our footage from the cruise.

I’m very optimistic, now that vaccines are rolling out and things are opening up; I mean, things are looking pretty good here in Los Angeles. As long as we continue on this course, I’m hopeful for fall-winter of 2022.

TREKCORE: Finally, with all you’ve worked on in your previous projects, and this  Voyager one… have you thought at all about turning your attention to  Star Trek: Enterprise ?

ZAPPONE: You know, I could be evasive, and give you some kind of cheeky answer — but of course, I would love to tell the story of Enterprise . Absolutely I would.

I’ve become very close with those actors. It didn’t go the seven years the other shows went, but they did amazing work in that series. I would be remiss, I think, in stopping here.

Yes, my intention is 100% to move on to Enterprise .

For more of this discussion with the film’s director/producer David Zappone, be sure to listen to the extended interview on this special edition of WeeklyTrek.

We’ll keep bringing you all the latest news on  To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager as we move closer to the film’s release!

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‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Documentary ‘To The Journey’ Has Started In-Studio Production

| June 25, 2021 | By: Anthony Pascale 30 comments so far

In April To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager  wrapped up a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign , bringing in over $1 million. This week the documentary started putting some of that money work and director David Zappone gives us an exclusive update on the production.

To The Journey running on the ‘holodeck’

This week To The Journey began its first in-studio production in Los Angeles, kicking off an extensive list of interviews for the documentary looking at Star Trek: Voyager . Filming is being done on the same stage the team used for their DS9 documentary What We Left Behind , but with a brand-new custom-built set themed around a USS Voyager holodeck. One of the first interviews conducted this week was with Martha Hackett, who played Seska on the show. Also interviewed this week were guest actors Alexander Enberg, Scott MacDonald, Jeffrey Combs, and Vaughn Armstrong.

Behind the scenes shot of Martha Hackett interview ( To The Journey )

Others interviewed this week include a number of people who worked behind the camera on Voyager , including director David Livingston, Andy Robinson (who also directed an episode of Voyager ), writer Lisa Klink, make-up artist Karen Westerfield, composer Dennis McCarthy, and Emmy-winning make-up designer Michael Westmore.

David Livingston ( To The Journey )

To The Journey also brought in some notable fans and others tied to the franchise including Discovery actress Mary Chieffo and current Star Trek science consultant Dr. Erin McDonald. And they are just getting started. Director David Zappone tells TrekMovie, “We want to focus on every aspect of producing Voyager , from those in front to those behind the camera.. We are looking for To The Journey to be an all-encompassing documentary so we anticipate that filming will go into 2022.”

Mary Chieffo ( To The Journey )

Of the work so far Zappone said:

“Even with just a few days into these one-on-ones, the interviews thus far have been incredibly insightful and honest. Despite being an avid Trek fan since the ’70s, and having done so many of these documentaries, I continue to learn new things about the franchise every day. I’m thrilled that the story of Voyager is shaping up to be as interesting and compelling as that of Deep Space Nine .”

These new in-studio interviews will just be part of the mix as the team already shot a significant amount of footage and interviews during the 2020 Star Trek: The Cruise, which included a reunion of the Voyager cast. They will also be flying to London this fall to shoot more at the Destination: Star Trek convention, which will also include a Voyager reunion.

From the 2020 Voyager reunion on Star Trek: The Cruise ( To The Journey )

While work has continued during the pandemic, Zappone tells TrekMovie there won’t be any Zoom remote interviews included in the final doc, saying “Those types of interviews cannot match the intimacy of being in person, and we want this film to match the high production bar we set on What We Left Behind .” However, the team has visited some interview subjects at work or at their homes, including Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor.

Passing the $1 million mark in crowdfunding allowed for To The Journey to include an “exclusive never before seen Voyager surprise” stretch goal. In an interview earlier this year Zappone told TrekMovie this surprise will be something “new” that involves the Voyager actors. This week he confirmed this special segment is on the production schedule, but it has yet to be filmed.

To The Journey is still on target for a release in the fall of 2022. To learn more visit the official site at voyagerdocumentary.com . You can also keep up with the production on Twitter ,  Instagram , and  Facebook .

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I really hope they do fan interviews for this later on at DST, i contributed to the doc and would like to be in it hopefully.

I really hope you get your chance Martin. You must have contributed quite a bit though lol.

A few hundred yeah, got some good perks and merch on the way soon, got a premire ticket when it eventually comes out, and a special thanks credit.

This brought a HUGE smile to my face! :)

I’m watching Voyager as I read this! Literally just started my grand rewatch of the show today finishing Caretaker and watching episode 2 now. As I’m about to begin my own journey back into the Delta Quadrant I am very excited about this documentary. It sounds like they are going to get a lot of Star Trek members just beyond people who directly worked on Voyager to talk about the show. I kind of wish they did that for WWLB.

I love the show more now today than I did 25 years ago! Crazy how that happens.

This doc is just exciting for me as all the upcoming shows! It’s a great time to be a Star Trek fan!

I’ve only watched the series all the way through twice: once circa 2004 (I missed it on initial release due to not having UPN in my area and am still angry about it) and once last year. Loved it the first time; loved it even more the second.

I’m so happy with the Voyager love. It was so derided (still is in some quarters) for a long time, such a nice turnaround for a great show.

it could have been so much better….

Go watch Battlestar Galactica ;)

it had an interesting set up that it diluted and lacked courage to develop over time. it wouldn’t have lost that ‘trek’ feel if they made good on the premise. and don’t get me started about the lack of character development and the ‘re set’ button.

Is what it is. Personally I’m not a fan of Caretaker. It’s not terrible episode, but it just seems to have aged quite badly, for me.

Encounter at Farpoint is weirdly more rewatchable to me mainly because of how campy and sometimes fun it is, whereas Caretaker has that mid-90s blandness about it. S1-3 is hit and miss but there are a fair few standout episodes and Voyager is really quite good in S4 and S5 before becoming a little more uneven S6-7. It needs a HD upgrade, which perhaps may improve the rewatch experience because the SD ages the show and contributes to stale look of the picture.

Actually I agree about Caretaker. It has aged rather badly. I remember when I first watched it, I was so excited about the show after that. It felt really fun and adventurous. In fact I liked it a lot more than Emissary which I liked BUT was too slow at the time. Now 20+ years later, I LOVE Emissary and have seen that one the most out of all the Trek pilots. It easily holds up the best. Caretaker does feel a lot more bland now. I still like it, but not on the level as I did when I first watched it when it first aired.

I watched Encounter at Farpoint back in April, another I haven’t watched in well over a decade and yeah its NOT as bad as I remembered, but still pretty meh for me.

But that’s why I’m really enjoying watching everything again, you really do get a different perspective on all of it although so far I have to say I have enjoyed more than I hated easily and most of the shows has been fun to watch. Discovery was probably the hardest for me thus far but OK.

Very excited to see how I will feel about Voyager since this will be my first true rewatch of the show, from beginning to end, in probably 15 years.

I rewatched the Emissary at the weekend after 12 years (or 5 years when I only rewatched the episodes crucial to the Dominion plot?) and it wasn’t that bad as I remembered (well, the picture quality was). I perceive it different now. Maybe you can relate more to Sisko when you are older. It seems that the writers wanted to create a character which is the opposite of Picard, starting with Sisko being a father.

I really would love to watch the Show in HD and 16:9.

I’m also doing a “grand rewatch” and just finished “Dark Frontier” S5, Episodes 15 & 16. I also appreciate this show more than I did in it’s original run, which while I always enjoyed, I didn’t realise how brilliant Janeway was a leader. Mulgrew is superb in the role and I find the character incredibly inspirational. Not only is Janeway a great Captain but she is also a top scientist in her own right, which makes her a very powerful leader of both ship and crew. Mulgrew also brings a subtle vulnerability to the role which is a joy to watch when it occasionally surfaces. Really looking forward to the documentary..

I rewatched Dark Frontier a little before Picard premiered as I did a lot of Seven episodes at that time because she was going to be on that show. I really love that story and one of my favorites in Voyager. It still really good. And everything you say about Janeway is a huge reason why I love the show. The same reason I love TOS and TNG, because of the captains and how they set the tone for their shows. Janeway I loved right out of the gate. In fact, she was the first captain I loved from the start since Captain Kirk. It took awhile to really like Picard and Sisko (love them both now) but Janeway just had a very pleasing quality from the start. She’s probably the most intelligent Captain out of all of them because she is also a scientist but also warm and charming. People use to call her the male version of Picard, but they are really the opposite in so many ways, especially in the beginning. Janeway is very social and almost motherly to her crew, although she can be stoic when she had to be.

I know she is a divided character for some, but NEVER for me. I’ve always loved Janeway and holds my attention every second on screen. Mulgrew just did an amazing job with her and a big reason so many are excited to see her return in Prodigy. And unlike the character Picard who is almost night and day version between TNG and the show Picard, I think this version of Janeway will be pretty close to Voyager’s version since Prodigy will emulate the Captain Janeway we know and love.

At first I really couldn’t stand Janeway. I felt she was a know-it-all and was too often the one finding the solution when her crew were the ones that should have the specialized engineering or scientific skills to do so. As captain she should be a generalist and depend more on her crew for specific tasks. I think I missed half the original run of the series because of this. Then I re watched the series. I love Janeway. I finally understood that she is also an accomplished scientist and being also brilliant, this explains her varied competencies. I also think Mulgrew is an excellent actress. I still dislike some characters, but all in all Voyager was a great series and Janeway one of my favorite captains.

I remember enjoying Voyager to an extent while it was on air, but the amazingness of DS9 definitely clouded my view of Voyager. DS9 did some fantastic things with serialized story telling that VOY just wasn’t interested in, which constantly frustrated me at the time. In the first year+ of the show, the writers made it a point to mention the dwindling number of photon torpedoes, having to conserve power, etc. But somewhere in mid-season 2 or so, they just kind of gave up. The most egregious was Deadlock in season 2 – where Voyager is duplicated, and the two Voyager’s exist on top of each other but slightly out of phase, and the Voyager that “survives” is just beat up as well, only to be in perfect condition the next episode. Beyond that, Voyager had some truly horrendous episodes (I’m looking at you Threshold!), honestly some of the worst in all of Star Trek. Not to mention the Kazon… which the writer’s never did figure out were not really good adversaries (unlike how the writer’s of TNG figured out relatively quickly that the Ferengi were horrible, horrible adversaries).

With that being said, looking back at things in retrospect, there were some fantastic individual episodes and some really fun mind-bending sci-fi stories. I would place some of these episodes in the top tier of all Star Trek episodes. In addition, once Seven of Nine was brought on board, the writer’s really started to find a groove.

Ultimately, I think Voyager has aged incredibly well, especially when compared to season 1 of TNG, which well, has been and will always remain pretty awfully (hilariously so at times). I really do need to do a full rewatch at some point…

how many shuttles did they lose?

So, so many, But you can just replicate more, right? ;p

Using up precious resources. But the writers didn’t seem bothered by that. Even the delta flyer got rebuilt after it was destroyed.

There are some guys on youtube who really counted that.

Are you surprised? Practically everything in the franchise has been catalogued and analyzed to within an inch of its life. There’s probably someone out there somewhere with a definitive list of every Starfleet officer throughout Trek history whose name begins with the letter “R”.

flawed but watchable ‘trek’ tv.

“Passing the $1 million mark in crowdfunding allowed for  To The Journey  to include an “exclusive never before seen  Voyager  surprise” stretch goal. In an interview earlier this year Zappone told TrekMovie this surprise will be something “new” that involves the  Voyager  actors. This week he confirmed this special segment is on the production schedule, but it has yet to be filmed.”

This screams new sequences with the actors back in their Voyager characters?

Voyager needed an epilogue. It would have been touching to see everyone reunited with friends and family… it would have equally been a banter if there was a spontaneous warp core breach as Voyager almost got home!

Could also be a Captain Proton segment. Proton might be cheaper to produce but I think that actually bringing the actors back as their main characters would be more satisfying for fans.

Agreed, I think this seems more likely and remember Robert Duncan McNeill was pitching this idea several months ago.

It’s nice to see Voyager getting the recognition its deserves. I have always loved Voyager (its my favourite Star Trek series in the franchise).

I hope they try to interview Jennifer Lien, even if it’s only a a short phone interview or something. Could be challenging but you never know!

Any absence of Jennifer Lien in this documentary would be a disgrace – worse case there’s got to be archival interviews and/or convention footage that could be used – As I recall, E! did an hour documentary early on on ST:Voyager and there’s studio material (Publicity and “Entertainment Tonight”) as well.

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The space exploration documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” has some of the right stuff. But for the average viewer, it may prove as slow-going as the last decade or so in the waning mission the film spotlights: the more than 45-year-old NASA-funded Voyager program .

First, a little history. In 1977, twin robotic spacecraft named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched to fly near the four outermost planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — to gather valuable data and transmit it back to Earth. A reported 1,200 people initially worked on the captivating project, though in more recent years, as the probes entered interstellar space traveling beyond the solar system, only a dozen staffers have remained to manage and monitor the mission’s imminent end.

These deeply dedicated souls, who have postponed retirement to guide these famed if largely forgotten spacecraft through their “twilight” years, are the focus of director Billy Miossi’s meditative, alternatively arcane and awe-inspiring look at NASA’s longest-running mission.

The enduring Voyager team profiled here includes project manager Suzy Dodd; engineers Enrique Medina, Fernando Peralta, Sun Kang Matsumoto and Todd Barber; missions operations manager Jefferson Hall; technical consultant Chris Jones (he left the mission in 2021); and project scientist Ed Stone, who retired last year at 86 after a half-century of service. They receive their close-ups as they work out of a nondescript office park in Altadena, Calif., which proves a less-than-thrilling background for much of the film. A move to NASA’s nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory later occurs following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Unfortunately, while the intellect of Voyager’s passionate staff is impressive, they’re not always the most scintillating bunch; their often highly technical discussions can make for some dry viewing. In addition, these folks’ eclectic histories, which Miossi presents via one-on-one interviews and personal archival visuals, although enlightening in a how-did-they-get-here sense (Medina, Peralta and Matsumoto grew up in, respectively, Mexico, Colombia and South Korea), can feel a bit pro forma. There are several more emotional moments, though, that bring us closer to our subjects.

The doc, shot from 2019 to 2021, is more successful when it reminds us of the dazzling scope of the Voyager mission, especially in its early days when it fed the public’s appetite for real-life outer space adventure in the biggest way since the 1969 moon landing.

Voyager-generated photos of such spectacular sights as the rings of Saturn and the volcanoes on Io (a moon of Jupiter) are a vivid inclusion as well.

It’s also cool to contemplate some of the more astonishing facts and figures that are peppered in here. Not the least of these is that the Voyagers have flown as far as a record 14 billion miles from Earth. That’s billion with a B. Or, if you prefer, they are now three times farther from the sun than our former ninth planet, Pluto.

Miossi also attempts to add some ticking-clock action to the proceedings as he tracks several downturns in the spacecraft’s power and capacity to effectively transmit data. At one point, the team must rescue Voyager 2 from potential demise when a power glitch shuts down its instruments. That commands are sent to control the compromised probe using mid-1970s technology adds to the movie’s low-key tension.

Further complicating matters, there can be a lag time of 16 to 20 hours for the spacecraft’s signals to reach Earth. Plus, only one majestic antenna dish, located in Canberra, Australia, can interface with the Voyagers, which are solely visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere — and that satellite is shutting down for maintenance. As the film makes clear, it’s miraculous that this NASA enterprise is still operational.

To that end, the Voyager team hopes the ailing spacecraft can survive until 2027 so they can celebrate the mission’s 50th anniversary. For now, though, they have this earnest, reflective film to mark their life’s work and help keep Voyager alive in the mind of its older — and maybe now newer — fans.

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World-renowned singer Celine Dion shared a vulnerable moment of her experience with stiff-person syndrome in a raw scene in the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion.”

The film, released Tuesday on Prime Video, shows Dion, 56, suffering a severe spasm during a physical therapy session. Lying on a table on her side, Dion freezes and starts to cry as she shakes slightly and whimpers in pain. 

Dion revealed in December 2022 that she had been diagnosed with the rare neurological disease , which can cause painful spasms and difficulty walking. In the documentary, viewers see her going through one of those hard moments. 

The footage shows a physical therapist talking Dion through the spasm and asking her to squeeze his hand if she is in pain. He gives her a nasal spray after having noted that she is breathing abnormally. He and others in the room discuss whether to call 911 if another spasm were to start, but Dion weakly reassures them, saying, “I’m OK.”

It was a candid moment for Dion — one she insisted on keeping in the film. When Dion was shown a rough cut six months after the spasm, she told director Irene Taylor, “Don’t cut down that scene,” Taylor told the Los Angeles Times .

In the documentary, Dion revealed she has been living with symptoms of the condition for 17 years. 

What is stiff-person syndrome?

Stiff-person syndrome is an autoimmune and neurological condition that affects roughly 1 or 2 out of every 1 million people.  

Symptoms include stiffening in the torso and limbs, along with severe muscle spasm episodes. The spasms can occur at random or be triggered by certain stimuli, including loud noises, touch or emotional distress.

Dr. Jennifer Hankenson, a doctor at Yale Medicine who sees patients with stiff-person syndrome, said people with the condition have low amounts of a chemical in the brain called GABA, which plays a role in controlling anxiety and emotional responses, as well as muscle movement.

With low amounts of GABA, a spasm can occur that makes the muscles very tense, she said. Such spasms can start in a particular muscle and then spread throughout the body.

“So when a patient gets very excited, very stressed-out, there’s a loud noise or banging around them, it can be a very small trigger, but it may bring on one of those episodes where unfortunately everything starts to spasm," Hankenson said. "And when it happens, it can be incredibly painful for the patient.”

Spasms can last several seconds or minutes, or they can be prolonged, she added.

There’s no cure for stiff-person syndrome. Doctors focus on relieving symptoms using medications such as sedatives, muscle relaxants and steroids. Immunotherapies, like infusions of immunoglobulin, have also been  shown to reduce  people’s stiffness and sensitivity to noise, touch and stress.

Physical and aqua therapies can help patients, as well.

It’s not clear why some people develop stiff-person syndrome, and more research is needed, Hankenson said.

“Luckily, it’s very rare. For those who do develop the symptoms, it may start with certain muscle spasms in their body or sometimes affecting even things like speaking, talking. And that usually progresses to more violent episodes of those muscle spasms," she said.

What was happening in that scene?

Dion’s physician, Dr. Amanda Piquet, is the director of the autoimmune neurology program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She told TODAY.com that the documentary scene shows a spasm that started in Dion's foot and then took over her body.

“That anxiety, that panic, that continued spasm that was not breaking, then very quickly triggered just a complete whole-body spasm,” she said.

The nasal spray Dion was given was benzodiazepine, a depressant drug that relieves anxiety and reduces muscle spasms. 

Piquet clarified that what Dion experienced was not a seizure. 

“This is a spasm that is occurring, and patients are aware of what’s going on. There’s a lot of anxiety; there’s a lot of panic; your adrenaline’s rushing,” she said.

Hankenson, who watched the documentary, described the spasm Dion endured as “an extreme episode.”

“Unfortunately, if [patients] are put in the right environment or stressed a certain level, that can be the intensity of the body’s response. It can even potentially last several hours or more and put your body in a state of crisis that actually could lead to hospitalization,” she said.

In the documentary, Dion says after the spasm: “Every time something like this happens, it makes you feel so embarrassed. So, like, I don’t know how to express it ... like to not have control of yourself.”

Hankenson praised Dion for her bravery in sharing the episode with the public.

“Celine Dion being so open about her journey and experiences, she's put light on stiff-person syndrome, and hopefully this will lead to additional resources for ongoing research,” she said.

Dion's story may offer some hope, as well, Hankenson added: “There’s a lot of recovery that she has experienced. I think it also shows other patients who may have stiff-person syndrome that not everybody is debilitated and not everybody is unable to gain some recovery.”

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Steve Van Zandt gets rock star treatment in new documentary

Musician, writer, producer, actor, activist-- Steve Van Zandt has expressed himself artistically in many ways over the last 50 years and now has his own documentary, “Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple,” on HBO and Max this week. The film includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Bono, hailing Van Zandt as a musician and an activist who led a successful campaign against apartheid. (June 27)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Van Zandt still looks every bit the rock star.

But underneath his purple headscarf, paisley shirt and snakeskin boots, Van Zandt says he still hates being the center of attention.

“I’m a bit of a contradiction and paradox,” he says, sheepishly laughing after an interviewer notes the musician-actor-activist might be in the wrong lines of work.

Perhaps it should be no surprise that Van Zandt, 73, had to be coaxed into participating in a documentary about his remarkable life and career. The result is “Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple” — which airs on HBO and streams on Max — and covers not only his years as a guitar-jamming singer-songwriter, but also as a music producer, playing Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos,” and his lesser-known roles as an activist, radio host, music educator, and entrepreneur.

The man affectionately called “Little Steven” by fans says he feels mostly gratitude about the film. “It’s an honor that somebody cared enough about my life to make a movie about it. And I’m happy that the work is going to be seen,” Van Zandt told The Associated Press. “ My other emotion is anxiety ... it’s a little embarrassing and awkward.”

Director Bill Teck, a lifelong fan of Van Zandt’s music, says he started inquiring about a documentary on his life and career in 2006, but received a hard no. After following up every few years, Van Zandt finally agreed in 2018, but he didn’t even want to be interviewed. Teck eventually convinced him audiences wanted to hear Van Zandt’s version of how his career in rock evolved — starting with his teen years playing in New Jersey bands, where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Bruce Springsteen .

“We were not capable of doing anything else. We were truly freaks, misfits and outcasts,” Van Zandt says. “We were not enamored with the options society was giving us.” He recalled the impact bands like the Beatles and Rolling Stones had on him and other Jersey musicians that encouraged them to keep performing. “Suddenly we had a place. We had a little hope,” he says.

The film includes interviews with rock legends — Paul McCartney, Springsteen, Bono, Bill Wyman, Eddie Vedder and more — all raving about Van Zandt’s skills as a producer and writer, but also as a pioneer in rock ‘n’ roll. “It seemed like every rock star in the firmament was eager to speak about Stevie,” Teck says.

Music is central to the documentary, but Teck also spends time on Van Zandt’s activism, especially his integral part in forming the Artists United Against Apartheid in the 1980s. Van Zandt recruited artists, including Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and Run-DMC to sing on his anthem, “Sun City,” which brought attention to what was happening in South Africa.

“Steve is a guy that will say rock and roll is the greatest tool for social change that there is,” Teck says.

Van Zandt’s involvement also helped influence the U.S. Senate to override President Ronald Reagan’s veto of legislation imposing sanctions on South Africa. “It was a very rare, complete victory,” Van Zandt says. “I’m very proud of it.”

“Disciple” also covers the painful period when Van Zandt split with Springsteen and quit the E Street Band just as it was gaining global popularity. He says he hopes to inspire people by all he accomplished after he thought his life was over — including solo music, producing for other artists, and political activism — before eventually rejoining his E Street pals years later.

“The first dream doesn’t work out. Whatever. Hang in there a little bit. If you can avoid being an alcoholic or drug addict and feeling too sorry for yourself and committing suicide — all of which I considered — hang in there and maybe destiny … has something in mind that, you couldn’t have anticipated.”

Van Zandt says he was a friend and confidante to Springsteen and one of the few who was honest with him, even when they had artistic differences. Later in the documentary, he draws parallels when his character, Silvio Dante, became the underboss and consiglieri to mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos.”

“Once that role … started to be written that way, I’m like, ‘Oh, I understand these dynamics very well. ... I’ve lived my whole life with this.’ So that really helped me, as a first-time actor, to know exactly the dynamics of that relationship— being the only one really capable of bringing the bad news occasionally, because you’re the only one not afraid of them, you know?”

The documentary and Van Zandt’s 2021 memoir provided an opportunity to look back and see professional struggles in a new light. “You don’t appreciate the teenage years because you’re trying to get into the bars. You don’t appreciate the bar band because you’re trying to get into the business and then the business… you want to just get bigger and bigger and have a hit,” Van Zandt says.

“Looking back now … I realize that those are some of the most fun, enjoyable years of my life.”

Van Zandt calls performing “fun and a wonderful way to make a living” but says he gets the most satisfaction from writing, producing and directing music and television behind the scenes.

As for his unconventional wardrobe, he suggests it’s a product of nostalgia. “I think I’m permanently in 1967. That was my favorite year, my favorite era. I love the psychedelic era,” the singer says, describing it as a “liberating, creative time.”

“There wasn’t all of these incredible problems we face now. So it’s a little bit of a mental sanctuary in a funny way.”

In the U.S., the national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org

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G37, with offices in London, Madrid, The Hague and San Francisco, brings 30 years of experience in international human rights law. This collaboration between a film festival and a legal group presents a new model for creating socially relevant content. By combining G37’s legal knowledge with Raindance’s filmmaking resources, the partnership aims to create narratives that inform and encourage action on human rights issues.

Almudena Bernabeu, G37 Group’s co-founder and joint head of chambers and CEO, said: “We have seen in our work the importance of culture and media in advancing the aims of justice and accountability.”

Elliot Grove, Raindance founder, added: “It has always been Raindance’s goal to support creators to allow them to tell important and often-untold stories.”

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Dudamel told Deadline about the film and the story behind it. “This documentary reflects the depth and significance of a unique project, the interpretation of Beethoven’s only opera in sign language,” he said. “It is a journey of transformation, empathy, difficulties, challenges, love and encounters. The vindication of an isolated and undervalued community through the most sublime human expression, art.” 

The documentary will be a verité style film that focuses on three members of the choir, Jennifer González, Gabriel Linarez and José Gabriel Abarca, following their daily lives as they take on the challenge of learning to perform at a world class level.

The 90-minute film was shot in Venezuela and LA and is expected to have a festival run. “The film is a celebration of the transformative power of performance, and the magic that happens when Deaf talents are offered the chance to perform on the world stage,” DJ Kurs told Deadline. “This documentary captures their resilience, creativity, and the profound possibilities that sign language and Deaf culture offer to the world.” 

Cristina Oliva and Martí Font produce for Barcelona-based Forty. The doc is made in association with The DeNovo Initiative, which is a major financier of the project, as well as The Breathe Project.

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The singer’s over-the-top sincerity and expressiveness were once seen as irredeemably uncool. In the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” they have become her superpowers.

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“I always envy people who smoke and drink and party and don’t sleep,” Celine Dion tells her physical therapist with an exaggerated sigh, midway through the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion.” “Me, I have water and I sleep 12 hours.”

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This monastic constraint has long been a core part of the Celine Dion legend. A professional singer since 12, she spent decades meticulously caring for her voice as though it were an endangered hothouse flower, committing to long stretches of vocal rest, complicated warm-up rituals and a lifestyle of exacting discipline — all so she could leap octaves and belt soaring notes with gobsmacking precision.

In a cruel twist of fate, though, even the ceaseless care Dion devoted to her voice could not preserve it. In 2022, she revealed in an emotional Instagram post that she has stiff person syndrome , a rare and incurable neurological disorder that causes painful muscle spasms and affects roughly one in a million people. After watching “I Am: Celine Dion,” a remarkably candid portrait directed by Irene Taylor on Amazon Prime Video, it is difficult to imagine a disease that would be more personally devastating to Dion, whose entire career has been one long exercise in control, sacrificing all for the ecstatic release of live performance.

Since her emergence as a Québécois child star with a precociously huge voice, something about Dion’s essential nature has remained constant, impervious to both changing trends and scathing critique. Whether power ballads were in fashion or not — and by and large, they were not — she sang them with the conviction of someone who’d never even heard the word “restraint.” “At her best,” wrote Elisabeth Vincentelli in a Times review of Dion’s most recent New York performance in February 2020, “Dion projects a sense of bigness — besides fairly simple graphics, the background videos in her show often showed cosmic images, as if they were the only thing measuring up on the Dion scale.” This bombastic approach gained her a worldwide fan base and a requisite backlash that she may have finally outpaced.

In 2007, the music critic Carl Wilson used Dion’s 1999 blockbuster album “Let’s Talk About Love” as the inspiration for an insightful, ultimately sympathetic book-length examination of musical taste, the assumption being that (at least 17 years ago) Dion’s name was a symbol for all things gauche, sincere and uncool. (The book’s subtitle? “A Journey to the End of Taste.”) “Schmaltz rots faster than other ingredients in the musical pantry,” Wilson wrote, “which may be why we doubt the possibility of a Celine Dion revival in 2027.”

As the years have passed, I wouldn’t bet against it. The sympathy engendered by her diagnosis aside, Dion is not nearly as polarizing as she was two decades ago. “My Heart Will Go On” has become a relic of kitschy ’90s nostalgia rather than the unavoidable and tiresome cultural monolith it was during the reign of “Titanic.” Musical tastes have become more elastic since Wilson’s book was published, streaming has lowered the stakes for fandom and made it easier to revisit artists’ catalogs, and listeners are less likely to see the industry bifurcated into us-vs.-them binaries.

But one of the main reasons people have softened toward Dion over the years is her absolute, undaunted commitment to her own kookiness. In 2008, the writer Rich Juzwiak put together a supercut of wacky clips titled “Celine Dion is amazing”: more than five minutes of Dion gesticulating wildly, indulging in nonsensical stage banter and, in one instance, launching into a spirited backstage cover of “Who Let the Dogs Out" mashed up with “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).” That over-the-top excessiveness at which Wilson and his hip Gen X-er peers once turned up their noses now seems like a virtue; denizens of the internet appreciate a reliably meme-able celebrity when they see one. Dion never seems to fear looking ridiculous. In an age of media-trained musicians careful not to speak out of pocket, her zaniness has become its own mark of authenticity.

“I Am: Celine Dion” has plenty of those “Celine Dion is amazing”-type moments, and thank goodness, because her singular, offbeat sense of humor balances out the film’s more harrowing scenes. Rather than relying on other talking heads to put her stardom in context, Dion is the only person interviewed in the documentary. While this does sometimes make the film’s perspective feel one-sided, Dion’s megawatt charisma means she is more than up to the task of carrying an entire film on her own. One of the most memorable sequences finds her giving the cameras a tour — “I feel like Liberace!” she says and laughs — through the vast storage warehouse where she keeps her ruffle-and-sequin-encrusted costumes, custom designer outfits and stilt-like shoes. Oh, the shoes.

“When a girl loves her shoes, she always makes them fit,” Dion says, imparting the wisdom of a true diva. “Every time I went to a store and I loved the shoes they said, ‘What size are you, ma’am?’ I said, ‘No, you don’t understand, what size do you have ? I’ll make them work, I’ll make them fit.’”

It’s a hilarious moment, but it’s also bittersweet. Again, there is that sense of self-sacrifice — the insistence that even in the face of discomfort the show (and the shoe) must go on. As she walks among her old stage clothes, delighting in the minute details of craftsmanship, the joy Dion gets from performing is palpable, but so is the anxiety that she may never know that particular kind of release again.

“When you record, it sounds great,” Dion says in the film. “But when you are onstage, it will be greater.” What becomes clear — throughout many montages of Dion singing live, feeding off the energy of her audience — is that performing is her lifeblood, and the stage has always been the place where she can be her most quintessential self. And so she is putting the full force of her tenacity and self-discipline toward building her strength back, in hopes that she can someday return.

That is, however, a herculean task. Toward the end of the documentary, during a physical therapy session, Taylor’s cameras continue to roll while Dion experiences a severe attack of full-body spasms; her face is frozen in pain, her limbs stiffen and the only sounds she can make are awful moans. For an artist who has long valued the control she has over her body and the instrument of her voice, this level of candor is particularly striking.

Just as difficult to watch is the sequence that precedes it, which finds Dion in a recording studio struggling to sing the relatively muted ballad, “Love Again.” Her vocal cords constrict — she compares the spasms to an unseen hand choking her — and that once mighty voice comes out in a whisper. Ever the perfectionist, she winces listening to the playback.

In the film, Dion compares herself to an apple tree, proud of doling out the shiniest fruit for her fans. “I don’t want them to wait in line if I don’t have apples for them,” she says. She still does, though. Dion’s voice may no longer be the precise instrument she nurtured for decades, but “I Am: Celine Dion” shows that hitting those stratospheric high notes is not her only method of inspiration. There is strength, too, in sharing the bitter fruit of her struggles, and throughout them remaining gloriously, consistently herself.

Read by Lindsay Zoladz

Audio produced by Tally Abecassis .

Lindsay Zoladz is a pop music critic for The Times and writes the subscriber-only music newsletter The Amplifier . More about Lindsay Zoladz

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