Providing the ship with new technologies, the elder Janeway reveals what her prolonged version of the trip cost her and her crew.
Newly upgraded, Voyager is able to devastate the Borg Collective -- at the expense of the older Janeway's life -- and use a transwarp corridor to return to the Alpha Quadrant in 7 years instead of 23, saving the lives of several crew members and getting Tuvok the medical treatment he needs in time to properly treat his advancing neurological disorder.
Over the course of its seven-year ordeal, Voyager's crew forged friendships and romances, was rocked by epic betrayal and heroic sacrifices as it battled the Kazon and Borg through uncharted space. Taking advantage of its unfamiliar surroundings, the starship trimmed down a lengthy voyage to less than a tenth of that duration, obliterating the Borg Collective as its coup de grace. Now, with Janeway set to make a return for Star Trek: Prodigy , it will be interesting to see how the Starfleet officer's experiences in the Delta Quadrant have shaped her.
Sam Stone is a 10th level pop culture guru living just outside of Washington, DC who knows an unreasonable amount about The Beatles. Voyager for inspiration. Voyager traveled more than 70, light years in seven years to return to Earth. Along the way, they encountered dozens of species — some friends, but many foes.
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The Voth, stung by the punishing fight in the Solanae Dyson sphere, have pulled back to their own space, but still maintain alliances with non-mammalian species they can almost see as equals.
The Borg have their own problems. Their invasion of the Alpha Quadrant has taxed their resources to the limit, and the loss of a unimatrix was a major setback. The Benthan Guard has expanded their range, and is attempting to bring law and order to an increasingly dangerous area of space.
But the rise of a mysterious fleet is causing them, and all the species of the Delta Quadrant, reason to be concerned. This fleet attacks without warning, slipping past planetary defense grids and destroying defending ships with ease.
While it was quickly found to be in an advanced state of decay and not suitable for travel, the crew was able to make contact with a Romulan ship on the other side. After finding a way of transporting the Romulan captain to Voyager , it was discovered that the Alpha Quadrant end of the wormhole was set twenty years in the past. The Romulan captain, Telek R'Mor , agreed to inform Starfleet of Voyager 's location in , but passed away in , four years before he would have delivered the crew's messages.
VOY : " Eye of the Needle ". A short time later, a future version of Kes arrived on Voyager , with the intent of handing the crew over to the Vidiians. During the ambush Kes helped set up, she was found trying to leave Voyager with her younger self and forced Captain Janeway to kill her. The younger Kes recorded a message to be played at some point in the future to make sure that the incident did not repeat itself.
VOY : " Fury ". In , Voyager was attacked by a 29th century Federation vessel under the command of Captain Braxton. The ensuing battle led Voyager and the time ship to be pulled into the 20th century , with Voyager arriving in orbit of Earth in , and Braxton arriving approximately thirty years earlier. During this time, Voyager 's EMH acquired the mobile emitter that allowed him to exist outside of just sickbay and the holodeck which were equipped with holo-emitters.
Another version of Braxton detected Voyager in and returned them to the 24th century Delta Quadrant. While testing Voyager 's newly-completed quantum slipstream drive in , Seven of Nine received a set of phase corrections through her Borg implants. Instead of stabilizing the slipstream, however, they collapsed it.
Harry Kim, who was ahead of Voyager in the Delta Flyer mapping the threshold, insisted that he did not send the message. Embedded in the transmission received by Seven was a Starfleet security code belonging to Harry Kim.
In it was a message from an older version of himself telling the younger Kim that he had made a mistake fifteen years prior that cost the lives of the Voyager crew, and that if he was seeing the message then "all of that has changed. One of the more complex temporal incidents encountered by the Voyager crew came in late- Specifically, the incident occurred on stardate Voyager began experiencing numerous temporal paradoxes throughout the ship, with time passing more quickly in certain areas and slowing down in others.
It was estimated that the temporal distortions would destroy the ship in a matter of hours. A few seconds before the explosion, two Starfleet officers from the future recovered Seven of Nine. She had been drafted by Captain Braxton and Lieutenant Ducane of the timeship USS Relativity to prevent the explosion and capture the individual responsible for Voyager 's destruction.
It was discovered that the disruptor was planted aboard Voyager on stardate After traveling to this point in Voyager 's history, the culprit was revealed to be a future version of Braxton, intent on taking revenge on Voyager for being responsible for so many temporal incursions that caused the need for him to go into rehabilitation a second time. Although Braxton was captured, several temporal paradoxes were created during the incident, such as Captain Janeway and Tuvok meeting Seven in instead of Lieutenant Ducane determined it necessary to "clean up" the timeline, and because Seven of Nine was unable to make any further time jumps without injuring herself, Captain Janeway was enlisted.
She successfully captured Braxton seconds after initially setting foot on Voyager , preventing the paradoxes. Afterwards, Ducane decided not to wipe Seven and Janeway's memories of the events, but left them with orders to remember the Temporal Prime Directive and not to discuss the experience with anyone. In , Voyager visited a planet with a tachyon core, causing time to pass faster on the planet than the rest of galaxy. VOY : " Blink of an Eye ". In , a temporal anomaly emitted a surge of energy that split Voyager into multiple time periods throughout the ship.
The crew from various periods of the vessel's history were able to restore Voyager to temporal sync. Only Commander Chakotay retained memory of these events as the timeline had been reset to his time period, allowing him to prevent the energy surge. VOY : " Shattered ". On two occasions, during their journey through the Delta Quadrant, Voyager and its crew duplicated.
The first occasion was in when, in an attempt to avoid going through Vidiian territory, the crew head into a plasma drift in an effort to escape the Vidiians.
The plan was a success, but as Voyager was leaving the plasma drift the ship was hit repeatedly by a series of proton bursts seemingly out of nowhere that caused heavy damage to the ship and in the process the loss of Harry Kim and Ensign Samantha Wildman 's newborn child, Kim being sucked out of the ship through a hull breach while the infant died to various medical complications.
It was discovered that the bursts were coming from another Voyager occupying the same point in space as the now damaged Voyager due to a spatial scission. As both ships were drawing on the same antimatter reserves, their continued mutual existence was impossible, trying to recombine the ships failed, and although a spatial rift was discovered on deck 14 that allowed the two crews to travel between ships, it was soon deduced that the rift would become instable if more than ten people passed through it in either direction.
The intact Voyager was later destroyed by its self-destruct after it was boarded by Vidiians. Before its destruction however, its Harry Kim and the newborn of Samantha Wildman — which had come through her birth safe and healthy — were transferred to the damaged Voyager. VOY : " Deadlock ". On another occasion in a bio-mimetic lifeform, known as the Silver Blood , was discovered on a Y class planet when the crew where searching for sources of deuterium.
In exchange for letting Voyager go, along with a supply of deuterium, the crew gave their DNA so they could be copied. VOY : " Demon ". However, by the Silver Blood Voyager crew had replicated their own Voyager. This crew attempted to journey back to the Alpha Quadrant as well, oblivious to their true origins.
It was not until the use of an enhanced warp drive that they learned who they really were. The new warp drive was harmful to them and ultimately led to the destruction of the Silver Blood Voyager and its crew. VOY : " Course: Oblivion ".
See also: Borg-Species War. A Borg skeleton found by Voyager , signaling their proximity to Borg space. Although the Delta Quadrant remained mostly unexplored by the latter half of the 24th century, one thing that was known about the region was that it was home to the Borg.
The Voyager crew knew the day would come when they would come face to face with the Collective. The first indications that Voyager was approaching Borg space came in , when the remains of a Borg drone were discovered on the Sakari homeworld. A short time later, a derelict Borg cube was discovered adrift in the Nekrit Expanse. Voyager finally entered Borg space at the end of the year, however, instead of facing assimilation, the crew found themselves on the sidelines of a brutal war between the Collective and an extra-dimensional alien species known only by their Borg designation of Species After determining that Species represented a significant threat to all life in the Milky Way Galaxy , Captain Janeway decided to form an unprecedented alliance with the Borg in order to drive the aliens back into their realm.
In exchange for safe passage through Borg space, Janeway agreed to help the Collective construct a weapon capable of defeating the invading aliens. Following the successful final confrontation with Species in their native realm, the Borg betrayed Voyager and attempted to assimilate the vessel and its crew through Seven of Nine.
The crew had prepared for this eventuality and managed to disable the drone. Seven of Nine was permanently severed from the Collective and joined the Voyager crew for the remainder of their journey. The next significant encounter with the Borg came in , when Voyager was attacked by a small Borg probe. Captain Janeway intended only to disable the vessel and steal a transwarp coil , but ended up destroying it by accident when Harry Kim transported a photon torpedo into an area near the power matrix.
After analyzing several recovered data nodes , the crew was able to conduct a successful raid of a damaged Borg sphere and get away with a working transwarp coil, although Seven of Nine was captured during the operation. An away team led by Janeway was eventually able to recover her.
Using the coil, Voyager was able to shorten its journey home by several years before the coil burned out. VOY : " Dark Frontier ". In , another derelict cube was found where all the adult drones had been killed by a virus.
The Voyager crew was able to liberate four adolescent drones, Icheb , Mezoti , and the twins Rebi and Azan , who had been spared the ultimate fate of the virus.
The twins were eventually returned to their people, who also agreed to give Mezoti a home, however Icheb remained with Voyager throughout the remainder of its journey and intended to apply to Starfleet Academy.
In , the Borg became aware of Unimatrix Zero. The Borg Queen immediately began to research a way to destroy the realm, believing it to be a threat to the Collective.
The drones occupying Unimatrix Zero found a way to contact Seven of Nine, who had previously been able to access the region during her time as drone, and through she was able to convince Captain Janeway to assist them. Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres were inoculated with a neural suppressant and allowed to be physically assimilated in order to plant a virus into the Collective. The virus liberated the drones of Unimatrix Zero from the hive mind , allowing a resistance movement to form against the Borg.
Voyager had been declared "officially lost" by Fourteen months later, Seven of Nine detected a large communications network with a sensor range capable of reaching the outskirts of the Alpha Quadrant. A Federation vessel was detected in range of one of the farthest relay stations, and in lieu of failed attempts to contact the vessel via standard hails, The Doctor was transmitted to make contact, since his program would not degrade in transit.
He told Starfleet Command everything that had happened to the Voyager crew and was returned to the vessel with a message for the crew: " You are no longer alone. Starfleet began the Pathfinder Project , a division of Starfleet with the goal of establishing contact with Voyager and finding a way to bring the lost vessel home.
Thanks to Barclay's efforts, contact with Voyager was reestablished in late and regular contact was maintained for the duration of the vessel's journey.
The project revolutionized long-range communications; major milestones included the ability to send monthly transmissions and eventually establish two-way live visual communication at a distance of 30, light years, even if only for eleven minutes a day. The vessel had been stranded in the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker as well, and had been suffering attacks by unknown nucleogenic lifeforms.
Unknown to the Voyager crew, the Equinox crew had been performing illegal experiments on the aliens in an effort to enhance their warp drive and return home sooner. Upon discovering this, Captain Janeway had the Equinox crew arrested, but they soon escaped. Janeway began a manhunt for Ransom, much to the dissatisfaction of Chakotay, who believed that Janeway was crossing the line. He convinced her to negotiate a cease fire with the aliens, but was relieved of duty for opposing her harsh attitude towards Ransom.
Eventually Voyager caught up with the Equinox. Ransom, in a last minute change of heart, decided to surrender to Janeway. Unfortunately, his first officer, Lieutenant Maxwell Burke , had other ideas, and relieved his captain of duty. Ransom and chief engineer Ensign Marla Gilmore managed to beam the Equinox personnel to Voyager , but were unable to save Burke and the rest of the bridge crew.
After dropping the shields around the warp core, the aliens caused a warp core breach , destroying the Equinox. The five surviving Equinox crew members were stripped of rank and ordered to serve as crewmen aboard Voyager , under close supervision with limited privileges. In , Voyager was given its first official assignment since its entrapment in the Delta Quadrant seven years earlier.
Captain Janeway's orders were to locate and retrieve an old Earth space-probe, Friendship 1 , that was launched in with the directive of contacting new species. Starfleet had lost contact with the probe around but its last known location and heading had projected the probe to be somewhere near Voyager 's location.
The probe was located on a highly irradiated world whose inhabitants had taken advantage of the information contained in the probe's database, with disastrous results. The survivors held the Voyager crew responsible for the current condition of their planet and people, and killed Lieutenant Joe Carey during a hostage situation that arose when an away team was sent to retrieve the probe.
After rescuing the away team and repairing the damage to the planet's atmosphere, Voyager took the probe's remains into its cargo bay and resumed a course for the Alpha Quadrant. VOY : " Friendship One ". Voyager and the Delta Flyer enter the slipstream. Over the course of Voyager 's journey throughout the Delta Quadrant, the vessel encountered many technologies and anomalies that shortened the vessel's return to the Alpha Quadrant.
In , following the conclusion of the war between the Borg and Species , Kes began to experience after effects following her communications with the aliens. She began evolving towards a higher state of being, but the process proved to be dangerous to Voyager so she decided to leave to protect the ship. As her final gift to the Voyager crew, Kes propelled the ship over 9, light years closer to Earth, eliminating ten years off the crew's journey.
VOY : " The Gift ". Later in , Seven of Nine installed the new astrometrics lab in Voyager. Because of the Borg's more advanced technology and detailed knowledge of the Delta Quadrant, Seven plotted a faster course back to Earth. She commented that the new course would trim five years off the journey. VOY : " Year of Hell ". In reality, the Dauntless was part of an elaborate trap laid out by the alien Arturis to exact revenge on Captain Janeway, for what he saw as her role in the Borg's assimilation of his world.
The Dauntless was equipped with a quantum slipstream drive , a highly advanced propulsion system similar to Borg transwarp conduits.
Lieutenant Torres was able to modify Voyager to be able to make use of this technology temporarily in order to rescue Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine from Arturis aboard the Dauntless. After their rescue, Voyager was able travel three hundred light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant before it collapsed. Several months later, the crew revisited this technology and was able to travel another ten thousand light years before the slipstream dispersed.
The technology was deemed too dangerous for use after this occurrence and was dismantled. In early , Voyager entered an area of space known as the Void.
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