USS Voyager (NCC-74656-A)

The USS Voyager (NCC-74656-A) was a starship operated by Starfleet during the late 24th century. It was the second Federation starship to bear the name Voyager with this registry.
It was commanded by Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway during its maiden voyage and later by Captain Chakotay.
== Lineage ==
:See Voyager history
== History ==
=== Construction and Launch ===
The original was decommissioned following its return to Earth after seven years in the Delta Quadrant and eventually transferred to the Fleet Museum. (; ; )
Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway felt that the next starship named Voyager needed an upgrade. The Voyager-A was outfitted stem to stern with the latest and advanced technology that the original Voyager encountered during her time in the Delta Quadrant "and then some." The Voyager-A officially entered service in 2384. ()
=== Rescuing the Protostar crew ===
That year, it launched two shuttlecraft to pick up Dal R'El, Gwyndala, Murf, Jankom Pog, and Rok-Tahk from their in San Francisco Bay. ()
=== Maiden Voyage ===
When Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway learned that the Voyager needed a captain for its maiden voyage due to the rest of Starfleet dealing with the upcoming Romulan evacuation, she volunteered. Their first mission was to observe the wormhole at the Beta Quadrant border that had been created by the destruction of the and determine if it posed a threat. In reality, this was being used a cover for the rescue of Chakotay from the future using the which was kept in a retrofitted hanger dubbed Shuttlebay 3.
Janeway tasked The Doctor with picking up the Protostars young former crew -- now Starfleet Academy hopefuls -- and escorting them from Earth to Voyager. The kids eventually found out the truth about Voyagers mission after finding the hidden shuttlebay and overhearing the command staff discussing how Starfleet Command was threatening to cancel the mission. Janeway later explained the true stakes of their mission and the kids agreed to keep it a secret. ()
However, an altercation between the young cadets and Nova Squadron resulted in the early launch of the Infinity into the wormhole with Dal R'El, Jankom Pog, Zero and Maj'el aboard. Although the group ensured the launch of the Protostar, they accidentally caused Chakotay and Adreek-Hu to be onboard as well, causing the Protostar to not go to Tars Lamora, thus changing history and creating a temporal paradox. Voyager managed to figure out a way to communicate with the Infinity crew through the wormhole for a brief time and transmitted everything they had on Temporal Mechanics 101 to them to help with the effort to turn the Infinity into a time machine. After rescuing Gwyn from the present day Solum, the Infinity rendezvoused with Voyager. ()
Due to concerns about the stability of the timeline, Admiral Edward Jellico ordered Voyager to close the wormhole and destroy all evidence of the classified mission, including the Infinity which was to be ejected into a hypergiant. However, at the same time, the kids received a mysterious message that they believed was from Chakotay directing them to a spiral nebula. Creating holo-duplicates of themselves to fool Voyagers crew, the kids stole the Infinity as it was about to be destroyed and headed for the nebula. ()
 suffered an attack from the Loom who were searching for the real Gwyn, but were fooled by the deception as well. The Loom froze time aboard Voyager during the attack, causing the ship to lose eight minutes of time. ()
While the deception held for a week, a glitch caused the holo-duplicates to switch personalities, eventually revealing their true nature and causing the crew to discover the attack on Hologram Gwyn. Defying direct orders to return to Earth from Jellico, Janeway had Voyager reverse course and track the Infinitys warp trail, eventually leading the ship through an abandoned Borg transwarp conduit and into the Delta Quadrant. ()
Voyager successfully tracked the Infinity to a time ziggurat on a hidden planet in the spiral nebula. However, the temporal paradox caused by the Protostar not going to Tars Lamora resulted in the Loom besieging the prime universe. After an away team encountered the Loom, Janeway took Voyager into the planet's atmosphere and fired upon the Loom with the ship's phasers, buying the kids and Wesley Crusher time to use Wesley's machine. The Loom swarmed Voyager, consuming five bridge officers and presumably half of engineering, but Janeway lured them away from her ship using a shuttle. After sending the kids and Maj'el through a gateway to find Chakotay and the Protostar, Wesley used his Traveler powers to get rid of the Loom for the time being and opened another gateway to transport Janeway back to Voyager. The planet then vanished without a trace, leaving Voyager with no clue on where the young crew had gone. ()
After the temporally-displaced Protostar was found marooned on Ysida and repaired, it was discovered that Voyager was 3,000 light years away. The crew were forced to build a new proto-core in order to rendezvous with Voyager. ()
The Protostar was able to reach Voyager using its protostar drive, but the jump tore the already weakened fabric of the universe. Voyager was caught in the resulting interphasic rift, splitting the ship into a number of alternate reality Voyagers. Using the deflector dish on the in the mirror universe, Chakotay and his young crew were able to fix the fracture in reality and arrived on the correct Voyager. ()
While Janeway was willing to have Voyager aid in the mission to send the Protostar back in time to repair the broken timeline, Jellico ordered both ships back to Earth where Janeway would be returned to her desk, Voyagers crew reassigned, the Protostars young crew reevaluated, and the Department of Temporal Investigations would handle sending the Protostar back in time. ()
However, before the orders could be carried out, Asencia, having taken control of Solum, sent the Rev-1 to attack and destroy Voyager. Even with the help of the Protostar and Nova Squadron, Voyager had trouble defending against the Rev-1s temporal weaponry and was nearly destroyed by the Incursor. However, Zero, at the cost of their corporeal body, managed to redirect the weapon to target Maj'el's Mark II Nova Flyer, allowing Nova Squadron to destroy the Rev-1 using the Boothby Supernova. With the threat of this new weaponry, Starfleet Command redirected Voyager and the Protostar to Solum to neutralize Asencia's temporal weaponry and stop all-out war between the Vau N'Akat and the Federation, a war that Starfleet could possibly lose given how stretched thin it was. ()
Although unable to interfere directly in the Vau N'Akat Civil War due to the Prime Directive, Voyager supplied the Protostar crew -- who were not Starfleet personnel and thus their involvement didn't violate the Prime Directive -- with equipment for their mission to rescue Ilthuran and find the source of Asencia's weaponry. After the Protostar crew beamed Ilthuran and Wesley Crusher aboard, Janeway granted Ilthuran political asylum on Voyager and personally led a rescue mission for the captured kids. Afterwards, Janeway agreed to help stop Asencia and save Solum. ()
Voyager later participated in the Battle of Solum, attacking Asencia's ships to buy Dal's crew and Chakotay time to launch the Protostar back through time to Tars Lamora in order to repair the universe. When the Loom started invading, threatening the plan, Voyager escorted the Protostar into the wormhole, providing covering fire so that the much smaller ship made it and then beamed out the crew after The Doctor made a copy of 's program using Voyagers EMH backup module. ()
After the battle, Janeway landed Voyager on the planet where the crew made peaceful first contact with the Vau N'Akat and dismantled Asencia's temporal technology. Janeway subsequently decided to take an early retirement before the Attack on Mars changed things for Starfleet, drawing Janeway back. Her young cadets were assigned to crew the new while Chakotay became the new captain of Voyager. ()
=== Legacy ===
By 2401, the was active prior to Frontier Day. ()
== Alternate realities and timelines ==
In an alternate reality encountered by Chakotay, Dal R'El, Jankom Pog, Rok-Tahk, Gwyndala, Murf, Zero, and Maj'el, Janeway perished aboard the , along with Commander Tysess and Counselor Noum, while trying to rescue Chakotay from the future. She was replaced by Admiral Edward Jellico as the commanding officer of Voyager. ()
In another alternate reality the group encountered, the crew of the failed to stop the living construct and the Federation was destroyed. Voyager was severely damaged and left for scrap, although the ship remained habitable and partially functional. When the group encountered this reality, Thadiun Okona was raiding Voyager and had already sold some of the parts for its transporters to the Andorians. Nevertheless, Okona was able to beam the group to the bridge level which, due to the anomaly that Voyager was caught in that had splintered reality, turned out to be in the mirror universe. However, Maj'el was either left behind or transported to another reality as a result of the missing parts while the transport took the group to the transporter room on deck 1 rather than the bridge itself. ()
In another alternate reality encountered by Zero and Rok, Voyager was crewed by Enderprizians and it was commanded by Captain Tuvix. ()
== List of first contacts ==
* Vau N'Akat (2385)
== Command crew ==
* Commanding officer
** Kathryn Janeway (2384–2385)
** Chakotay (2385–)
* First officer
** Tysess (2384–)
* Chief medical officer
** The Doctor (2384–)
* Counselor
** Noum (2384–)
See also: USS Voyager-A personnel
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