Voyager Season One Recap

Introduction

The Trek franchise expands into its second post-Roddenberry series with Voyager. It was in some ways a departure from what has come before, with a female captain and a completely different setting than the previous series. In other ways, it might be seen as a return to form, with less serialization and stories much more focused on new civilizations and strange new worlds.

OK, now give us... "Le Tigre!"

Voyager, Season 1: Learning Curve

Voyager, Season 1
"Learning Curve"
Airdate: May 22, 1995
15 of 168 aired
15 of 168 produced

Introduction

After a Tuvok has a tense and almost violent run-in with a Maquis crew member over his inability to follow protocol, Janeway decides that there must be some way to bridge the gap between the expectations she places on her Starfleet crew and the reality of the Maquis crew members' ability. Tuvok attempts to bring a handful of Maquis up to speed, but may find the task more difficult than he anticipated.

 Two sweaty men get down on the floor and reconcile their differences.

Voyager, Season 1: Jetrel

Voyager, Season 1
"Jetrel"
Airdate: May 15, 1995
14 of 168 produced
14 of 168 aired

Introduction

When a war criminal from the past of Neelix's homeworld seeks him out to make contact, Neelix must make peace with his own personal demons, while also deciding how best to deal with such a controversial figure.

Jetrel implores Neelix to allow him to test out new videogame controllers, which could save millions.

Voyager, Season 1: Faces

Voyager, Season 1
"Faces"
Airdate: May 8, 1995
13 of 168 produced
13 of 168 aired

Introduction

B'Elanna wakes up in a Vidiian lab to discover she is fully Klingon. How did she get here? How did this happen? Can she escape, and if she does, will she able to recover her human half? Will she even want to?

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

Voyager, Season 1: Cathexis

Voyager, Season 1
"Cathexis"
Airdate: May 1, 1995
12 of 168 produced
12 of 168 aired

Introduction

Chakotay and Tuvok's shuttle returns with the occupants injured. Tuvok recovers, but Chakotay is apparently brain dead. Voyager sets course for the nebula they came from to investigate, but a mysterious force seems intent on stopping them.

Tee hee hee, now put his finger in a cup of warm water!

Voyager, Season 1: Heroes and Demons

Voyager, Season 1
"Heroes and Demons"
Airdate: April 17, 1995
11 of 168 produced
11 of 168 aired

Introduction

When Ensign Kim goes missing during a holodeck excursion, the Voyager crew investigates connections between his disappearance and strange photonic beings outside the ship. The Doctor is recruited to enter the holodeck and recover his missing crewmates.

Mmmmm... mutton.

Voyager, Season 1: State of Flux

Voyager, Season 1
"State of Flux"
Airdate: April 10, 1995
10 of 168 produced
10 of 168 aired

Introduction

After discovering a Kazon ship has been secretly shadowing them and the presence of Federation technology at an accident site on a Kazon ship, the crew discovers someone is funneling technology to them. Suspicion falls on Maquis member Seska and Starfleet officer Carey, both having plausible motives and opportunity.

 Do you think I would give up my heart for a boring character like you? Of course I'm a Cardassian.

Voyager, Season 1: Prime Factors

Voyager, Season 1
"Prime Factors"
Airdate: March 20, 1995
9 of 168 produced
9 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager is contacted by the Sikarans, a famously hospitable race who desires nothing more than to give Voyager's crew a much needed respite. Things become more complicated, though, when the crew discovers a spatial folding technology that could send them halfway home in the blink of an eye.

You know you've been out at sea for too long when this guy starts looking attractive.

Voyager, Season 1: Emanations

Voyager, Season 1
"Emanations"
Airdate: March 13, 1995
8 of 168 produced
8 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager discovers an undiscovered element in the rings of a planet. Hoping to mine it, they discover the rings are the crypts for a race of aliens. Before they can leave, Harry Kim is captured by the transport device that deposits the people for burial. Complicating matters, the alien left in his place is alive, and discovers what she has been told about the afterlife is very different from where she finds herself now.

Harry wakes up naked in sickbay. Hope the rumors aren't true, eh?

Voyager, Season 1: Ex Post Facto

Voyager, Season 1
"Ex Post Facto"
Airdate: February 27, 1995
7 of 168 produced
7 of 168 aired

Introduction

While on a mission to secure help in fixing one of Voyager's systems, Tom Paris becomes entangled with a mysterious woman, and is accused of murdering her husband. The punishment he receives threatens to destroy his life.

It was raining in the city by the bay. A hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime out of the streets and back into the holes they crawled out of...

Voyager, Season 1: Eye of the Needle

Voyager, Season 1
"Eye of the Needle"
Airdate: February 20, 1995
6 of 168 produced
6 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager encounters a wormhole that may lead home. Unfortunately, it is too small to travel through. Deciding instead to try to get a message home, the discover the wormhole does in fact make it to the Alpha Quadrant, but to inside the Romulan Empire. Janeway must now convince a skeptical Romulan scientist their impossible tale is true.

The Captain lets her hair down and kicks back in a saucy little evening number.

Voyager, Season 1: The Cloud

Voyager, Season 1
"The Cloud"
Airdate: February 13, 1995
5 of 168 produced
5 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager investigates a nebula in the hopes of finding a new energy source. The crew winds up getting more than they bargained for, though, when they get pulled into the body of a large space being.

 Why, yes, Commander, I would like to see what's inside that medicine bundle of yours!

Voyager, Season 1: Phage

Voyager, Season 1
"Phage"
Airdate: February 6, 1995
4 of 168 produced
4 of 168 aired

Introduction

Neelix is attacked by mysterious aliens who steals his lungs. The Doctor manages a makeshift cure, but it may be worse than the problem. The crew races to find the thieves, but once they are found, the reason for their crime is something the crew could never have imagined.

alt.neelix.die.die.die

Voyager, Season 1: Time and Again

Voyager, Season 1
"Time and Again"
Airdate: January 30, 1995
3 of 168 produced
3 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager investigates a destroyed world, when Janeway and Paris are whisked back in time - to one day before the disaster that destroyed it.

Look, Lieutenant, if you'd rather be back in prison...

Voyager, Season 1: Parallax

Voyager, Season 1
"Parallax"
Airdate: January 23, 1995
2 of 168 produced
2 of 168 aired

Introduction

Voyager encounters a spatial anomaly with a ship apparently trapped in it. Moving to lend a hand, they discover the ship trapped is themselves, and every attempt they make to leave leads them back to the singularity. Meanwhile, Janeway much choose a new Chief Engineer, and she must manage more than the usual personnel problems when Chakotay recommends B'Elanna Torres for the job. Though she certainly has the engineering skills, there remains the question of how her colleagues would accept her in that role, especially given she just broke one of their noses.

I'll make you chief engineer, but only on one condition. Tell me where you got your hair done.

Voyager, Season 1: Caretaker

Voyager, Season 1
"Caretaker"
Airdate: January 16, 1995
1 of 168 produced
1 of 168 aired

Introduction

While on a mission to capture a Maquis vessel and crew, USS Voyager finds itself whisked away by a strange alien force to the other side of the galaxy. Once there, the Starfleet and Maquis crews form an uneasy alliance. They must navigate a tricky path between dangerous adversaries, internal tensions,  and the prospect that they might never return home.

Poor, warm, sensual Stadi. We hardly knew ye.