The second season applied what it had learned from the mistakes of the first, and the result was an improved series that took better advantage of its opportunities. As with other Trek shows, better things lay ahead. Despite that, the first season scored its share of decent episodes, along with an intriguing early villain in the organ-hunting Vidiians. Perhaps worst of all, its fascinating premise of a mixed Starfleet/Maquis crew was never explored, rendering of its strongest concepts inert from the start.

It also showed early shades of Gilligan’s Island syndrome: the ship was unable to resolve its central dilemma lest the series end, and thus any efforts to return home would end in failure by default, robbing the episode of any tension. It expressed a timidity in its storylines, and often strayed into the ridiculous. The new lead proved more than up to the challenge, but the show evinced other problems that wouldn’t be vanquished so easily. Star Catherine Deneuve left the series shortly after shooting began and was replaced at the last minute by Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway.

RELATED: Star Trek: What Happened to Geordi La Forge's Iconic Visor After TNG? Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1įirst seasons have rarely been kind to Star Trek series, and Voyager was saddled with a potential disaster right off the bat. Below is a list of Voyager’s seven seasons, ranked in order from worst to first. Through it all, another stalwart cast created another crew full of memorable characters worth tuning into through good episodes and bad. That led to a lot of ups and downs, with brilliant, gutsy moral meditations and succeed-or-die crisis episodes contrasted with dreadful misfires and good ideas that never got off the ground. And what started as a slightly more formalized take on the original series soon gave the showrunners license to shoot for the moon every week. It was a bold move from a franchise already enjoying a Renaissance on the backs of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The crew was forced to contend with whatever the writers had planned on their own, with only their ship and their ideals to guide them. It proffered a return to the “five-year mission” format of the original series, but with a twist: the ship would be trapped on the other side of the galaxy, with no ready way to return to Federation space. Star Trek: Voyager was one of the most ambitious Star Trek series yet conceived.

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