![]() Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV had previously used CGI to avoid the expense of models, but the Star Trek television department continued using models because they felt they were more realistic. Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots. Costume designer Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager 's crew would be the same as those on Deep Space Nine. Voyager was shot on the stages The Next Generation had used, and where the Voyager pilot " Caretaker" was shot in September 1994. ![]() Seeds for Voyager 's backstory, including the development of the Maquis, were placed in several The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. ![]() Initial work on Star Trek: Voyager began in 1993, when the seventh and final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the second season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were in production. This was reminiscent of Paramount's earlier plans to launch its own network by showcasing Star Trek: Phase II in 1977. The studio also planned to start a new television network, and wanted the new series to help it succeed. During Voyager 's run, various episode novelizations and tie-in video games were produced after it ended, various novels continued the series' narrative.Īs Star Trek: The Next Generation ended, Paramount Pictures wanted to continue to have a second Star Trek TV series to accompany Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. During the later seasons, the Borg-a species created for The Next Generation-were introduced as the main antagonists. Set in a different part of the galaxy from preceding Star Trek shows, Voyager gave the series' writers space to introduce new alien species as recurring characters, namely the Kazon, Vidiians, Hirogen, and Species 8472. Berman served as head executive producer in charge of the overall production, assisted by a series of executive producers: Piller, Taylor, Brannon Braga, and Kenneth Biller. Voyager was the first Star Trek series to feature a female commanding officer, Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. The complex relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as the Maquis was one such element and a persistent central theme. Berman, Piller, and Taylor devised the series to chronologically overlap with Deep Space Nine and to maintain thematic continuity with elements that had been introduced in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. They wanted it to help launch UPN, their newly established network. Paramount Pictures commissioned the series following the termination of Star Trek: The Next Generation to accompany the ongoing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager as it attempts to return home to the Alpha Quadrant after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy. It is the fifth series in the Star Trek franchise. It originally aired from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, on UPN, lasting for 172 episodes over seven seasons. Ensign Kim and Ensign Wildman's baby (later named Naomi) are killed, and are replaced from the alternate Voyager.Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor. ![]() As the Vidiians close in on them, she meets the other Janeway face-to-face to determine a solution, knowing only one of the two ships can survive. Then Janeway discovers that although a divergence field has caused all sensor readings to double and every particle on the ship to duplicate, there is not enough antimatter to sustain both vessels. While the crew feverishly attempts to contain the worst onboard disaster ever, the Doctor struggles to keep alive Ensign Wildman's newborn, half-human, half-Ktarian baby. When Ensign Kim and Kes disappear into a void in space, Captain Janeway discovers a duplicate Voyager with an identical crew exists in a parallel universe. Before they can clear it, the engines stall, anti-matter supplies drain and proton bursts, originating from within the ship, cause heavy casualties and breach the structural integrity of the hull. ![]() Astounding consequences occur when Voyager, while attempting to evade pursuing Vidiian vessels, enters a plasma cloud. ![]()
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