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101-481: Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction series created by Rick Berman , Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor . It aired from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, on UPN , with 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as the fourth after Star Trek: The Original Series . Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets , it follows

202-438: A Star Trek: Voyager documentary made news when it raised over $ 638,000 in the first two weeks of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The film is being produced by 455 Films which also produced the 2018 reunion documentary What We Left Behind about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , as well as other documentaries. Production of the film started in 2020 and included cast member interviews prior to kicking off crowdfunding to take

303-411: A binge watch, with the whole series taking about three months, as rate of two episodes per day on weekdays and three episodes per day on weekends. As of 2015 services known to carry the series include Netflix , Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, and CBS.com. Star Trek: Voyager has not been remastered in high definition and there are no plans to do so, due to the costs of reassembling each episode from

404-523: A casting notice saying 'a Robbie Duncan McNeill type.' They put my name. Kinda like the character on TNG. Like, my name was in [it]. And I’m like, 'I’m right here! That’s me!' And so [my agent says], 'I think you should… you can do this.'" Robert Picardo auditioned for the role of Neelix, but his friend Ethan Phillips got it. Philips had already been cast in several minor roles in older Star Trek productions. Reflecting on that, Picardo said, "And in that moment, I saved myself 6,000 hours of my life spent in

505-512: A current (yet returning) shipmate helps instigate a series of complex efforts which shortens the remainder of the journey to a few minutes in the series finale, " Endgame ". A total of 26 numbered books were released during the series' original run from 1995 to 2001. They include novelizations of the first episode, "Caretaker", "The Escape", "Violations", "Ragnarok", and novelizations of the episodes "Flashback", " Day of Honor ", "Equinox" and "Endgame". Also, "unnumbered books", which are still part of

606-528: A female superhero, wears traditional folkloric clothes and tries to save traditional elements of Dutch society against the factory owners. Italian TV shows include A come Andromeda (1972) which was a remake of 1962 BBC serial, A for Andromeda (from the novels of Hoyle and Elliott), Geminus (1968), Il segno del comando (1971), Gamma (1974) and La traccia verde (1975). French series are Highlander: The Series , French science-fiction/fantasy television series (both co-produced with Canada) and

707-453: A group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot (The devil's cave), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the Earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst (Train journey to the future) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans

808-596: A makeup chair." However, after failing in the audition he was suggested to try for the character of the Doctor, which he got. He was initially unsure of his way to manage the character because of his limited participation in the pilot, and feared that he would be compared unfavorably with Brent Spiner . Spiner played the fan-favorite Data in The Next Generation , another non-human being. "I was afraid I would be compared to him endlessly and unfavorably because he

909-630: A man who becomes trapped in a telephone booth, while passersby seem unable to help him, won the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction. The series Plutón B.R.B. Nero (2008) was a brutal SF comedy by Álex de la Iglesia , in the line of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Red Dwarf , or Doctor Who , with 26 episodes of 35 minutes. Other series of the 2010s were Los protegidos (2010-2012), El barco (2011-2013), and El internado (2007-2010), all three inspired by North American productions, with minor SF elements. The latest success

1010-529: A nebulous area called the Nekrit Expanse (" Fair Trade ", third season), a large area of empty space called The Void , toxic dumping grounds (" Night ", fifth season), wormholes , dangerous nebulae and other anomalies. Voyager is the third Star Trek series to feature Q , an omnipotent alien—and the second on a recurring basis, as Q made only one appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Starfleet Command learns of Voyager ' s survival when

1111-491: A new television network , and wanted the new series to help it succeed. 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. Seeds for Voyager ' s backstory, including the development of the Maquis , were placed in several The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. Voyager

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1212-478: A new author, 2009 brought forth two more additions to the series: Full Circle and Unworthy . In 2011, another book by the same author called Children of the Storm was released. Other novels—some set during the relaunch period, others during the show's broadcast run—have been published. Three video games based specifically on Voyager were released: Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force for PC (2000) and PS2 (2001),

1313-411: A new source of income for actors, who began to charge money for autographs that they had previously been doing for free. This became significant enough that lesser-known actors would come to conventions without requesting any appearance fee, simply to be allowed to sell their own autographs (commonly on publicity photos). Today most events with actor appearances are organized by commercial promoters, though

1414-469: A number of fan-run conventions still exist, such as Toronto Trek and Shore Leave . The 1985 series Robotech is most often credited as the catalyst for the Western interest in anime. The series inspired a few fanzines such as Protoculture Addicts and Animag both of which in turn promoted interest in the wide world of anime in general. Anime's first notable appearance at SF or comic book conventions

1515-428: A number of smaller fiction/fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, "Les atomistes" and 1970 miniseries "La brigade des maléfices". Another French-produced science fiction series was the new age animated series Il était une fois... l'espace (English: Once upon a time...space ). Anime-influenced animation includes

1616-561: A positive reception. Ryan liked both the premise of the character and the optimist view of the future of the Star Trek franchise, which she preferred over the darker series she could audition for at the time, and got the job with little problem. Unlike The Next Generation , where composer Jerry Goldsmith 's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture was reused, Goldsmith composed and conducted an entirely new main theme for Voyager . As done with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine ,

1717-531: A review of the different series giving Voyager the highest Bechdel test rating. Critical and scholarly accounts noted the prevalence of women in leadership roles and with scientific expertise, but also the series' adherence to the gender binary and heterosexual norms . In an article about Voyager , Ian Grey wrote: "It was a rare heavy-hardware science fiction fantasy not built around a strong man, and more audaciously, it didn't seem to trouble itself over how fans would receive this. On Voyager , female authority

1818-649: A science fiction television series based upon Zoran Živković's story, winner of a World Fantasy Award . Návštěvníci (The Visitors) was a Czechoslovak (and Federal German, Swiss and French) TV series produced in 1981 to 1983. The family show aired in a larger number of European countries. For a list of notable science fiction series and programs on television, see: List of science fiction television programs . People who have influenced science fiction on television include: [REDACTED] Media related to Science fiction television programmes at Wikimedia Commons Foundation Imaging Foundation Imaging, Inc.

1919-428: A score of 66 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In 2021, Variety ranked it the fourth best installment of Star Trek , counting series and movies together, placing it ahead of all television series to-date except the original. Voyager was notable for being the most gender-balanced Star Trek series with the first female lead character and strong female supporting characters, with

2020-407: A sense, virtually all animated series allow characters and objects to perform in unrealistic ways, so they are almost all considered to fit within the broadest category of speculative fiction (in the context of awards, criticism, marketing, etc.) The artistic affinity of animation to comic books has led to a large amount of superhero -themed animation, much of this adapted from comics series, while

2121-400: A series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime , including such titles as Ulysses 31 (1981), The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982), and Ōban Star-Racers (2006). The first Spanish SF series was Diego Valor , a 22 episode TV adaption of a radio show hero of the same name based on Dan Dare , aired weekly between 1958 and 1959. Nothing was survived of this series, not a single still; it

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2222-462: A soul. All three of these television series were aimed mostly at children. Later television series were Professor Vreemdeling (1977) about a strange professor who wants to make plants speak and Zeeuws Meisje  [ nl ] (1997) a nationalistic post-apocalyptic series where the Netherlands has been built full of housing and the highways are filled with traffic jams. The protagonist,

2323-460: A soundtrack album of the series' pilot episode "Caretaker" and a CD single containing three variations of the main theme were released by Crescendo Records in 1995 between seasons one and two. In 1996, the theme was also released as a piano solo songbook. In 2017, La-La Land Records issued Star Trek: Voyager Collection, Volume 1 , a four-disc limited-edition release containing Goldsmith's theme music and tracks from Jay Chattaway 's "Rise", "Night",

2424-469: A wide array of software. Models have been an essential tool in science fiction television since the beginning, when Buck Rogers took flight in spark-scattering spaceships wheeling across a matte backdrop sky. The original Star Trek required a staggering array of models; the USS Enterprise had to be built in several different scales for different needs. Models fell out of use in filming in

2525-505: Is El ministerio del tiempo ( The ministry of time ), premiered on February 24, 2015 on TVE 's main channel La 1 . The series follows the exploits of a patrol of the fictional Ministry of Time, which deals with incidents caused by time travel. It has garnered several national prizes in 2015, like the Ondas Prize , and has a thick following on-line, called los ministéricos . Serbia produced The Collector ( Sakupljač ),

2626-438: Is not known if the show was even recorded or just a live broadcast. The 60s were dominated by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador and Narciso Ibáñez Menta , who adapted SF works from Golden Age authors and others to a series titled Mañana puede ser verdad . Only 11 episodes were filmed. The 70s saw three important television films, Los pajaritos (1974), La Gioconda está triste (1977), and La cabina (1972), this last one, about

2727-512: The Asgard characters are puppets in scenes where they are sitting, standing, or lying down. In Mystery Science Theater 3000 , the characters of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo , two of the show's main (and most iconic) characters, are puppets constructed from random household items. As animation is completely free of the constraints of gravity, momentum, and physical reality, it is an ideal technique for science fiction and fantasy on television. In

2828-527: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Later series made in the 1960s included The Interpretaris (1966) Vega 4 (1967), and Phoenix Five (1970). The country's best known Science Fiction series was Farscape ; an American co-production, it ran from 1999 to 2003. A significant proportion of Australian produced Science Fiction programmes are made for the teens/young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow ,

2929-851: The Deep Space Nine episode " Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges " for her sister Intrepid -class ship USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705). The sickbay set of USS Voyager was also used as the Enterprise -E sickbay in the films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection . The Voyager ready room and the engineering set were also used as rooms aboard the Enterprise- E in Insurrection . Production of episodes ran from June or July to March or April each year, with each episode typically taking about seven days to shoot. Shooting started at 7 a.m. each weekday and continued until finished for

3030-729: The Super Robots such as Mitsuteru Yokoyama 's Tetsujin 28-go ( Gigantor ) and Go Nagai 's Mazinger Z , and the Real Robots such as Yoshiyuki Tomino 's Gundam series and Shōji Kawamori 's Macross series. Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction television are the superhero tokusatsu (a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince . The suitmation technique has been used in long running franchises include Eiji Tsuburaya 's Ultra Series , Shotaro Ishinomori 's Kamen Rider Series , and

3131-619: The Super Sentai Series. In addition, several dramas utilize science fiction elements as framing devices, but are not labeled as "tokusatsu" as they do not utilize actors in full body suits and other special effects. Among the notable German language productions are: Danish television broadcast the children's TV-series Crash in 1984 about a boy who finds out that his room is a space ship. Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het  [ nl ] (Tomorrow it will happen), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about

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3232-577: The Voyager theme by Goldsmith was the best of all Star Trek television series' themes. The article elaborates, "... Voyager recaptures some of the spacey ethereality of Courage's original vocal melody, while adding a deep space resonance that evoked the series' lost explorers, far from home among uncharted stars." In August 2015, the main cast members (except Jennifer Lien , who had retired from acting in 2002) appeared together onstage in Las Vegas for

3333-631: The Vulcan Lieutenant Tuvok , has secretly infiltrated. Tom Paris , a disgraced former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis and was subsequently arrested, agrees to help find the Maquis ship in exchange for his freedom. While in the Badlands, Voyager is enveloped by a powerful energy wave that kills several of its crew, damages the ship, and strands it in the galaxy's Delta Quadrant , more than 70,000 light-years from Earth. The wave

3434-594: The 1950s". Doctor Who , which launched in 1963 and ran until 1989, then was revived in 2005, was listed in the Guinness World Records in 2006 as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time. Other cult British series in the science fiction genre include The Tomorrow People , Space: 1999 , Blake's 7 , Star Cops and Red Dwarf . Science fiction in Canada

3535-453: The 1970s. No other show attracted a large organized following until the 1990s, when Babylon 5 attracted both Star Trek fans and a large number of literary SF fans who previously had not been involved in media fandom. Other series began to attract a growing number of followers. The British series, Doctor Who , has similarly attracted a devoted following. In the late 1990s, a market for celebrity autographs emerged on eBay , which created

3636-472: The 1990s as CGI became more affordable and practical, but even today, designers sometimes construct scale models which are then digitized for use in animation software. Models of characters are puppets . Gerry Anderson created a series of shows using puppets living in a universe of models and miniature sets, notably Thunderbirds . ALF depicted an alien living in a family, while Farscape included two puppets as regular characters. In Stargate SG-1 ,

3737-499: The 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager at the 2015 Las Vegas Star Trek convention. Following a path set by Leonard Nimoy , the first Star Trek actor to also direct in the franchise, Robert Duncan McNeill (Paris) and Roxann Dawson (Torres) went on to direct episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise , while Jonathan Frakes , LeVar Burton , and Andrew Robinson (Garak of Deep Space Nine ) all directed episodes of Star Trek: Voyager . The sets used for USS Voyager were reused for

3838-479: The Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube. As he did with Seven of Nine, the Doctor rehumanizes the children; Azan, Rebi and Mezoti , three of them eventually find a new adoptive home while the fourth, Icheb , chooses to stay aboard Voyager. Life for the Voyager crew evolves during their long journey. Traitors Seska and Michael Jonas are uncovered in

3939-655: The Caretaker dies, Janeway decides to protect the Ocampa from eminent invasion by another local alien species, the Kazon , by destroying the Caretaker's transport array, also their means for returning home the way they came. To begin their now projected 75-year journey home, Chakotay , leader of the Maquis group, is made Voyager ' s first officer. B'Elanna Torres , a half-human/half- Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer, and Paris becomes Voyager ' s helm officer. Due to

4040-658: The Delta Quadrant is unexplored by Starfleet . As they continue their long journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species: the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter race the Hirogen ; the fearsome Species 8472 from fluidic space; and most notably the Borg , who control large areas of space that Voyager has to move through in later seasons. They also encounter perilous natural phenomena,

4141-483: The Voyager series, but was later changed to a new character, Tom Paris. The casting notes mentioned that the producers wanted "a Robert Duncan McNeill type", which was noticed by McNeill's agent. He was eager to play the new character. He explained that "I get a call. My agent says, 'Hey, remember that Star Trek episode you did a few years ago?' He goes, 'They’re making a new show called Voyager and they literally put out

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4242-563: 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 galaxy . Paramount Pictures commissioned the series after the cancellation of Star Trek: The Next Generation to accompany the ongoing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . They wanted it to help launch UPN, their new network. Berman, Piller, and Taylor devised

4343-590: The arcade game Star Trek: Voyager – The Arcade Game (2002) and Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003), a sequel to Elite Force . The PS2 game Star Trek: Encounters (2006) also features the ship and characters from the show. Voyager was a graphic adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies but it was cancelled in 1997. Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force drew revenues of $ 15 million and sold roughly 300,000 units worldwide by 2003. Star Trek: Voyager launched on UPN with repeats entering into syndication . The two hour long debut " Caretaker "

4444-448: The basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices. By the late 1990s, improved technology and more training and cross-training within the industry made all of these techniques easier to use, so that directors of individual episodes could make decisions to use one or more methods, so such artistic choices no longer needed to be baked into the series concept. Special effects (or "SPFX") have been an essential tool throughout

4545-519: The catchphrase of Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), the doctor of the original Star Trek series . The people laughed, and he was hired some hours later. The series added a new main character during the mid-run, Seven of Nine , by Jeri Ryan . So far in the Star Trek franchise, this had only happened in Deep Space 9 with Worf , which was a preexisting character and not a new one. Rick Berman explained that "I think after our first three years,

4646-429: The company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC. The company's pioneering work on Babylon 5 popularized using the software package Lightwave 3D on US TV shows for CGI visual effects, which led to it becoming an industry standard throughout the 1990s. Key animators from the company and Emmy Award-winners Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and John Teska remain major figures in

4747-552: The continuing adventures of Voyager following the television series finale was implemented in 2003, much as Pocket Books did with the Deep Space Nine relaunch novel series, which features stories placed after the finale of that show. In the relaunch, several characters are reassigned while others are promoted but stay aboard Voyager . These changes include Janeway's promotion to admiral, Chakotay becoming captain of Voyager and breaking up with Seven of Nine, Tuvok leaving

4848-459: The crew discovers an ancient interstellar communications network, claimed by the Hirogen, into which they can tap. This relay network is later disabled, but due to the efforts of Earth-based Lieutenant Reginald Barclay , Starfleet eventually establishes regular contact in the season-six episode " Pathfinder ", using a communications array and micro-wormhole technology. In the first two episodes of

4949-512: The day. The pilot episode "Caretaker" took 31 days to shoot and was one of the most expensive television pilots shot to that date. In the pilot episode, " Caretaker ", USS  Voyager , under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway , departs the Deep Space Nine space station on a mission into the treacherous Badlands . They are searching for a missing ship piloted by a team of Maquis rebels, which Voyager ' s security officer,

5050-447: The deaths of the ship's entire medical staff, the Doctor , an emergency medical hologram designed only for short-term use, is employed as the ship's full-time chief medical officer. Delta Quadrant natives Neelix , a Talaxian scavenger, and Kes , a young Ocampa , are welcomed aboard. Neelix eventually becomes the ship's chef/morale officer and Kes becomes the Doctor's medical assistant. Due to its great distance from Federation space ,

5151-541: The development of the Massive software application permits producers to include hordes of non-human characters to storm a city or space station. The robotic Cylons in the new version of Battlestar Galactica are usually animated characters, while the Asgard in Stargate SG-1 are animated when they are shown walking around or more than one is on screen at once. In general, science fiction series are subject to

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5252-533: The domestic television market, most Canadian productions involve partnerships with production studios based in the United States and Europe. However, in recent years, new partnership arrangements are allowing Canadian investors a growing share of control of projects produced in Canada and elsewhere. Australia's first locally produced Science Fiction series was The Stranger (1964–65) produced and screened by

5353-559: The earliest forms of media fandom was Star Trek fandom . Fans of the series became known to each other through the science fiction fandom . In 1968, NBC decided to cancel Star Trek . Bjo Trimble wrote letters to contacts in the National Fantasy Fan Foundation, asking people to organize their local friends to write to the network to demand the show remain on the air. Network executives were overwhelmed by an unprecedented wave of correspondence, and they kept

5454-452: The early months (" State of Flux ", " Investigations "); loyal crew members are lost late in the journey; and other wayward Starfleet officers are integrated into the crew. In the second season, the first child is born aboard the ship to Ensign Samantha Wildman; as she quickly grows up due to alien biology, Naomi Wildman becomes great friends with her godfather, Neelix, and develops an unexpected and close relationship with Seven of Nine. Early in

5555-519: The episodes " Year of Hell ", " Night " and " Q2 "; technology boosts in " The Voyager Conspiracy ", " Dark Frontier ", " Timeless " and " Hope and Fear "; a subspace corridor in " Dragon's Teeth "; and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate in " The Gift ". Several other trip-shortening attempts are unsuccessful, as seen in the episodes " Eye of the Needle ", " Prime Factors ", " Future's End ", and " Inside Man ". After traveling for seven years,

5656-518: The expense of models, but the Star Trek television department continued using models because they felt they were more realistic. Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for Voyager ' s opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly episode exteriors were captured with hand-built miniatures of Voyager , its shuttlecraft, and other ships. This changed when Voyager went fully CGI for certain types of shots midway through season three (late 1996). Foundation Imaging

5757-647: The exterior views rendered by computer graphics for the Delta Flyer shuttlecraft , from drawings by Rick Sternbach , debuting on Voyager in the " Extreme Risk ". They also did the CGI views of the Varro generation ship in the episode " The Disease " for example. The company also worked on Robert Wise 's director's cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . This was one of Foundation Imaging's last projects before they shut down. Lebowitz also worked with Paramount Plus on

5858-419: The feeling was we wanted to add a bit of pizzazz to the show. We all agreed that we needed something to bring something fresh to the fourth season". Berman was interested in the character of Data, a machine that wants to be human, but inverted the formula with a human that was turned into a machine and faces humanity as a new thing. For this purpose they used the Borg , villains from The Next Generation that had

5959-415: The fifth best live-action Star Trek series. In 2019, CBR ranked Season 5 the 4th best season of a Star Trek show, and Season 4, the 8th best. In 2019, Popular Mechanics ranked Star Trek: Voyager the 36th best science fiction television show ever. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the show a rating of 76% overall of the seven seasons based on 56 reviews. Metacritic gives Star Trek: Voyager

6060-604: The film negatives and recreating visual effects. Voyager won 20 different awards and was nominated for 70. In 1995 for example, Jerry Goldsmith won an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music and the series also won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. The following episodes won Emmy awards, "Caretaker", "Threshold", "Fair Trade", "Dark Frontier", and "Endgame". In

6161-614: The film to full production. By the end of March 2021 they had raised over $ 1.2 million from over 11 thousand donators to make it the most funded crowdfunded documentary ever, and announced the name To The Journey: Looking Back At Star Trek: Voyager for the documentary, which will include HD remastered footage (pending approval from ViacomCBS). The fundraising campaign was noted for getting support from Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and others. Science fiction on television The need to portray imaginary settings or characters with properties and abilities beyond

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6262-456: The first decade of the 21st century, changes in provincial tax legislation prompted many production companies to move from Toronto to Vancouver . Recent popular series produced in Vancouver include The Dead Zone , Smallville , Andromeda , Stargate Atlantis , Stargate Universe , The 4400 , Sanctuary and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica . Because of the small size of

6363-479: The history of science fiction on television: small explosives to simulate the effects of various rayguns , squibs of blood and gruesome prosthetics to simulate the monsters and victims in horror series, and the wire-flying entrances and exits of George Reeves as Superman . The broad term "special effects" includes all the techniques here, but more commonly there are two categories of effects. Visual effects ("VFX") involve photographic or digital manipulation of

6464-516: The impossible characters and settings allowed in animation made this a preferred medium for both fantasy and for series aimed at young audiences. Originally, animation was all hand-drawn by artists, though in the 1980s, beginning with Captain Power , computers began to automate the task of creating repeated images; by the 1990s, hand-drawn animation became defunct. In recent years as technology has improved, this has become more common, notably since

6565-480: The later seasons, the Borg —a species created for The Next Generation —were introduced as the main antagonists. During Voyager 's run, various episode novelizations and tie-in video games were produced; after it ended, various novels continued the series' narrative. As 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 . The studio also planned to start

6666-433: The lead character. Berman was head executive producer in charge of the overall production, assisted by a series of executive producers: Piller, Taylor, Brannon Braga , and Kenneth Biller . 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 . During

6767-505: The long-running Mr. Squiggle , Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left , Ocean Girl , Crash Zone , Watch This Space and Spellbinder . Other series like Time Trax , Roar , and Space: Above and Beyond were filmed in Australia, but used mostly US crew and actors. Japan has a long history of producing science fiction series for television. Some of the most famous are anime such as Osamu Tezuka 's Astro Boy ,

6868-413: The majority of science fiction media fandom has been represented by males of all ages and for most of its modern existence, a fairly diverse racial demographic. The most highly publicized demographic for science fiction fans is the male adolescent; roughly the same demographic for American comic books . Female fans, while always present, were far fewer in number and less conspicuously present in fandom. With

6969-710: The midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the cast of Voyager reunited for a live virtual event. The reunion broke the Stars in the House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $ 19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainment professionals in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous Stars in the House record was set by a Glee reunion episode that raised $ 13,910. In 2021, plans for

7070-536: The onscreen image, usually done in post-production . Mechanical or physical effects involve props, pyrotechnics, and other physical methods used during principal photography itself. Some effects involved a combination of techniques; a ray gun might require a pyrotechnic during filming, and then an optical glowing line added to the film image in post-production. Stunts are another important category of physical effects. In general, all kinds of special effects must be carefully planned during pre-production . Babylon 5

7171-402: The pilot. To keep production working and meet the deadlines the role was given to Kate Mulgrew , who had already been considered an option during the casting. Mulgrew also proposed to rename the character as Kathryn Janeway. Mulgrew, with more experience in episodic TV series, soon became a fan favorite. Robert Beltran knew nothing about the Star Trek franchise or the significance within it of

7272-484: The reach of current reality obliges producers to make extensive use of specialized techniques of television production. Through most of the 20th century, many of these techniques were expensive and involved a small number of dedicated craft practitioners, while the reusability of props, models, effects, or animation techniques made it easier to keep using them. The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into

7373-404: The rising popularity of fanfiction , a large majority of which is categorized as slash fanfiction . Female fans comprise the majority of fanfiction writers. U.S. television science fiction has produced Lost In Space , Star Trek , The Twilight Zone , and The X-Files , among others. British television science fiction began in 1938 when the broadcast medium was in its infancy with

7474-424: The rising popularity of fanzines, female fans became increasingly vocal. Starting in the 2000s (decade), genre series began to offer more prominent female characters. Many series featured women as the main characters with males as supporting characters. True Blood is an example. Also, such shows premises moved away from heroic action-adventure and focused more on characters and their relationships. This has caused

7575-432: The role he was auditioning for. He just got the "Caretaker" script from his agent, liked the story and the character, and successfully auditioned for it. He was aware, because of being familiar with the industry, that a pilot episode may eventually lead to an ongoing series. Robert Duncan McNeill had played the character of Nicholas Locarno in The Next Generation' s The First Duty . Initially, Locarno would have returned in

7676-403: The same financial constraints as other television shows. However, high production costs increase the financial risk, while limited audiences further complicate the business case for continuing production. Star Trek was the first television series to cost more than $ 100,000 per episode, while Star Trek: The Next Generation was the first to cost more than $ 1 million per episode. One of

7777-459: 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. The complex relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as the Maquis was one such element and a persistent central theme. Voyager was the first Star Trek series to feature a female commanding officer, Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), as

7878-412: The series, were released, though not part of the official release. These novels consist of episode novelizations except for Caretaker , Mosaic (a biography of Kathryn Janeway), Pathways (a novel in which the biography of various crew members, including all of the senior staff, is given); and The Nanotech War , a novel released in 2002, one year after the series' finale. A series of novels focusing on

7979-535: The seventh season, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry after a long courtship, and Torres gives birth to their child, Miral Paris, in the series finale. Late in the seventh season, the crew finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and live once again among his people. Over the course of the series, the Voyager crew finds various ways to reduce their 75-year journey by up to five decades (barring any other delays they may encounter): shortcuts, in

8080-412: The ship to serve as tactical officer under William Riker, and Tom Paris's promotion to first officer on the Voyager . The series also introduces several new characters. The series began with Homecoming and The Farther Shore in 2003, a direct sequel to the series' finale, "Endgame". These were followed in 2004 by Spirit Walk: Old Wounds and Spirit Walk: Enemy of My Enemy . Under the direction of

8181-487: The show on the air. Although the series continued to receive low ratings and was canceled a year later, the enduring popularity of the series resulted in Paramount creating a set of movies, and then a new series Star Trek: The Next Generation , which by the early 1990s had become one of the most popular dramas on American television. Star Trek fans continued to grow in number, and first began organizing conventions in

8282-531: The show's fourth season, Kes leaves the ship in the wake of an extreme transformation of her mental abilities, while Seven of Nine (known colloquially as Seven), a Borg drone who was assimilated as a six-year-old human girl, is liberated from the collective and joins the Voyager crew. As the series progresses, Seven begins to regain her humanity with the ongoing help of Captain Janeway, who shows her that emotions, friendship, love, and caring are more important than

8383-567: The show. There was an extra bonus video with the DVD set from the store Best Buy in 2004. Voyager had releases of episodes on VHS format, such as a collectors set with a special display box for the tapes. By the 2010s, the episodes were made available on various streaming services including the owners CBS All Access . In 2016 Netflix made an agreement with CBS for worldwide distribution of all then existing 727 Star Trek episodes (including Voyager). Voyager has 172 episodes and has been reviewed as

8484-481: The special effects. However, Enterprise has been released in HD, but the special effects were rendered in 480p and upscaled. In the initial drafts, Captain Janeway was meant to have the name Elizabeth Janeway, and the actress Geneviève Bujold was cast for the role. Bujold had previous experience in films, but not in long TV series. Feeling uncomfortable with the demanding production, she left after only two days of filming

8585-415: The sterile "perfection" the Borg espouse. The Doctor also becomes more human-like, due in part to a mobile holo-emitter the crew obtains in the third season which allows the Doctor to leave the confines of sickbay and even the ship itself. He discovers his love of music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode " Virtuoso ". In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by

8686-510: The time the series which is currently airing is played in order, from start to finish. In 2016, in a listing that included each Star Trek film and TV series separately, Voyager was ranked 6th by the L.A. Times . In 2017, Vulture ranked Star Trek: Voyager the 4th best live-action Star Trek television show, prior to Star Trek: Discovery . In 2019, Nerdist ranked this show the 5th best Star Trek series, in between Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery . Also in 2019, MovieFone ranked it

8787-503: The transmission of a partial adaptation of Karel Čapek 's play R.U.R. . Despite an occasionally chequered history, programmes in the genre have been produced by both the BBC and the largest commercial channel, ITV . Nigel Kneale 's The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and its sequels have been called "one of BBC Television's earliest audience successes" and Kneale became "one of the most influential television and film writers to emerge in

8888-482: The two-parter "Equinox", "Pathfinder", "Spirit Folk", "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Shattered", "The Void", and the two-parter "Scorpion"; Dennis McCarthy 's "The 37's", the two-parter "Basics", "The Q and the Gray", "Concerning Flight", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", and the two-parters "Workforce" and "Year of Hell"; David Bell 's "Dark Frontier"; and Paul Baillargeon's "Lifesigns". In 2020, Newsweek magazine said that

8989-475: The visual effects field for their work on shows such as the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Lost . Foundation Imaging is best known for their work on the science fiction series Babylon 5 , winning an Emmy Award for the pilot episode. After completing the third season of Babylon 5, they worked on Paramount's Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ultimately winning two more Emmy Awards for their work on Voyager). Foundation Imaging made

9090-436: Was a CGI visual effects studio, computer animation studio, and post-production editing facility. The company was founded by Paul Beigle-Bryant and Ron Thornton . It pioneered digital imaging for television programming using Newtek 's LightWave 3D , originally on Commodore Amiga based Video Toaster workstations. The company was dissolved after work on season one of Star Trek: Enterprise had been completed and

9191-473: Was assumed and unquestioned; women conveyed sexual power without shame and anger without guilt. Even more so than Buffy , which debuted two years later, it was the most feminist show in American TV history." About her years on Voyager , Kate Mulgrew said: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I

9292-588: Was in the form of video showings of popular anime, untranslated and often low quality VHS bootlegs. Starting in the 1990s, anime fans began organizing conventions. These quickly grew to sizes much larger than other science fiction and media conventions in the same communities; many cities now have anime conventions attracting five to ten thousand attendees. Many anime conventions are a hybrid between non-profit and commercial events, with volunteer organizers handling large revenue streams and dealing with commercial suppliers and professional marketing campaigns. For decades,

9393-514: Was in the incoming spacecraft (a Dragon cargo spacecraft ). The spacecraft was carrying the ISSpresso machine which would allow coffee beverages to be made aboard the actual Space Station. The popular tweet was accompanied by her wearing a Star Trek uniform also. The series was released on DVD in 2004 and again in 2017. In addition to the episodes, the DVDs also include some extra videos related to

9494-611: Was produced by the CBC as early as the 1950s. In the 1970s, CTV produced The Starlost . In the 1980s, Canadian animation studios including Nelvana , began producing a growing proportion of the world market in animation. In the 1990s, Canada became an important player in live action speculative fiction on television, with dozens of series like Forever Knight , Robocop , and most notably The X-Files and Stargate SG-1 . Many series have been produced for youth and children's markets, including Deepwater Black and MythQuest . In

9595-650: Was seen by 21.3 million people in January 1995. The series is available, Sunday through Friday evenings, on the broadcast network Heroes and Icons. It is also available for streaming in the United States on Paramount+ and Amazon Prime Video . Pluto TV also has three Star Trek channels which air the various series. The 'Star Trek' channel airs The Original Series and The Next Generation and has also aired Lower Decks, Picard and various specials and documentaries. The 'Star Trek: Voyager' channel airs Voyager. The ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ channel airs Deep Space Nine. Most of

9696-537: Was shot on the stages The Next Generation had used, and where the Voyager pilot " Caretaker " was shot in September 1994. Costume designer Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager ' s crew would be the same as those on Deep Space Nine . Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots. Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV had previously used CGI to avoid

9797-406: Was so lovable and kind of childlike in his role and I was kind of, you know, crusty and curmudgeonly, and ... pissed off. And not a very cuddly character". He secured the job by improvising a line in the pilot. When he's left alone in sickbay and all scripted lines were said, he added "I believe someone has failed to terminate my program". He concluded saying "I'm a doctor, not a nightlight", imitating

9898-401: Was the first series to use computer-generated imagery , or "CGI", for all exterior space scenes, even those with characters in space suits. The technology has made this more practical, so that today models are rarely used. In the 1990s, CGI required expensive processors and customized applications, but by the 2000s (decade), computing power has pushed capabilities down to personal laptops running

9999-553: Was the studio responsible for special effects during Babylon 5 ' s first three seasons. Season three's " The Swarm " was the first episode to use Foundation's effects exclusively. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse in season six. In its later seasons, Voyager featured visual effects from Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse. The digital effects were produced at standard television resolution and some have speculated that it cannot be re-released in HD format without re-creating

10100-487: Was used by an alien entity known as the Caretaker to pull first the Maquis ship, and then Voyager into the Delta Quadrant. The Caretaker is responsible for the continued care of the Ocampa, a race of aliens native to the Delta Quadrant, and has been abducting other species from around the galaxy in an effort to reproduce and have a successor. The two crews join forces to retrieve crew members being withheld for this purpose and eventually agree to permanently join forces. After

10201-494: Was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience—and it continues to resonate." In 2015, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted a Janeway quote from the episode " The Cloud ", "There's coffee in that nebula", from the International Space Station . The station was getting a shipment of supplies which triggered a chance to say how coffee really

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