About Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager follows the crew of the USS Voyager, a Starfleet vessel that is hurled 70,000 light-years across the galaxy into the unexplored Delta Quadrant. Stranded so far from home that a conventional return journey would take some 75 years, Captain Kathryn Janeway must unite two opposing groups, her own Starfleet officers and a band of Maquis rebels they had been pursuing, into a single crew. The series launched UPN as the network's flagship drama in January 1995 and ran for seven seasons.
Cut off from Starfleet command and resupply, Voyager's central premise is one of self-reliance and improvisation. The crew must find food, fuel, and spare parts among unfamiliar civilizations while holding to Federation principles in a region where no one has heard of them. Along the way they encounter new alien species and powers, including the predatory Kazon, the technology-stealing Hirogen hunters, and most prominently the cybernetic Borg, whose vast territory lies directly across the ship's path home.
The show is also notable for its character milestones, foremost the casting of Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway, the first woman to lead a Star Trek series as a commanding officer. Other standout figures include the liberated former Borg drone Seven of Nine and the ship's self-aware Emergency Medical Hologram, known simply as The Doctor. After a long and often perilous voyage, the series concludes with the crew's dramatic effort to finally bring Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant and home to Earth.