Star Trek: Voyager

:For pages with similar titles, see the Voyager disambiguation page.
Star Trek: Voyager is the fourth live-action television series set in the Star Trek universe. After three shows focusing on a male captain, Voyager features the first female captain as the main character of a Star Trek franchise. The premise of the series was a return to Star Trek roots after DS9 - ship-based exploration with Voyager being stranded and lost in the unexplored Delta Quadrant. As TNG had already established that the Delta Quadrant was the home of the Borg, Voyager's later seasons added popular character Seven of Nine and delved deeply into the backstory of the cyborg baddies.
It aired for 172 episodes over 7 seasons, between January, 1995 and May, 2001, and was followed by a 'Relaunch' series of novelsTrek Today article on the Voyager relaunch. Published February 16, 2003 in June, 2003. 
After being widely panned, Ron D. Moore would get fired from the Star Trek franchise after this show and later use his frustrations with the premise to reboot Battlestar Galactica.
==Canon==
The show follows the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager, stranded 70 years from home in the Delta Quadrant, as they meet new species and try to find a way back to the Alpha Quadrant. In the pilot episode, Voyager winds up in the Delta Quadrant while tracking a group of Maquis rebels (a group of renegade Federation citizens), so the Maquis rebels they find are incorporated into the starship's crew. Tensions between the Maquis crew and Starfleet crew feature in early episodes, but this theme is abandoned in later seasons.
Voyager is the first (and only) series in the franchise to feature a female captain as a main character. The fact that the first thing the first female captain does is get lost has resulted in criticism from some fans.
The new setting was designed to allow for the invention of new species, including new enemies like the Kazon (often described as a pale imitation of the more popular Klingons). However, Q and especially the Borg (both from Star Trek: The Next Generation) also appear, and fans have criticized the show for making the Borg less frightening.
==Characters==
Name 	Position 	Loyalty 	Species
Captain Kathryn Janeway	starship captain 	Starfleet 	Human
Commander Chakotay 	first officer 	Maquis 	Human
Lt. B'Elanna Torres 	chief engineer 	Maquis 	Human/Klingon
Lt. Commander Tuvok 	security chief 	Starfleet 	Vulcan
Lt. Tom Paris 	pilot 	Starfleet/Maquis 	Human
Ensign Harry Kim 	operations 	Starfleet 	Human
The Doctor 	chief medical officer	Starfleet 	hologram
Neelix 	chef 	private citizen (Delta Quadrant)	Talaxian
Kes 	hydroponics, medical 	private citizen (Delta Quadrant)	Ocampa
Seven of Nine 	astrometrics 	private citizen (Alpha Quadrant)	Borg (Human)
==Fan Reception==
===Unknown Date===
Randall Landers' comments regarding Star Trek: DS9 and Star Trek: Voyager: 
===1996===
===2000===
From a fan in April 2000: 
===2009===
A fan's comments 2009 regarding the female characters: 
==Fandom==
Much of early Voyager fandom was centered around the alt.startrek.creative (ASC) usegroup and a number of general and pairing specific mailing lists. Much of the fiction produced by these lists were stored at multi-author archives maintained by their members, many of which were lost with the death of Geocities. After the show's conclusion, and the advent of livejournal, many authors migrated there.
===Pairings===
The fandom was unusual in that it had two main het, slash, and femslash pairings, with fairly amicable relations between different groups of fans (many fans of one pairing were fans of another without perceived conflict).
At least one fan felt there to be more slash stories than other pairings. This opinion that may reflect which communities this fan hung out at, and/or when this fan was active in fandom, which was 2008: 
====Het====
The fandom was generally weighted towards the het pairings in terms of sheer popularity, with those stories focused mainly on Janeway/Chakotay (the largest of the het pairings) and Paris/Torres. Others het pairings included Janeway/Paris, Kim/Seven, Doctor/Seven, Doctor/Kes, Kim/Torres and Chakotay/Torres. While the pairing of Chakotay/Seven was reviled by many fans as being introduced towards the very end of the series with no prior buildup, some fans were supporters of this pairing, such as members of csfic list.
====Slash and Femslash====
Chakotay/Paris, with their enemyslash dynamic, and Paris/Kim slash had a strong following right from the beginning. After Seven of Nine joined the crew, Janeway/Seven became the pairing that heavily drew Xena/Gabrielle writers into the Voyager fandom and Torres/Seven with their more antagonistic relationship followed soon after. Janeway/Torres could also be found, especially in the early days of the fandom.
=== Threshold Day ===
Every January 29th Voyager fans celebrate a tongue-in-cheek online holiday called "Threshold Day" which annually celebrates the day the episode Threshold aired, considered by many to be the worst episode of the series. On this day trek fans usually share memes related to the episode and referencing the fact that Janeway and Paris were changed into giant salamanders, and create fanworks, often including the salamander babies. Threshold Day seems to have first become a Trek internet holiday in 2016 on the 20th anniversary of the episode, and was spearheaded by Tumblr user captaincrusher who was tried of seeing the negativity surrounding the episode, and then it grew from there.
==Endgame, the Final Episode==
Voyager's final two-part episode proved to be extremely controversial within the fandom. Not only did it feature time travel and a heavy Borg presence, two story tropes often singled out as being over-used throughout the show's run, but it saw the sudden introduction of a romantic relationship between Seven of Nine and Chakotay which was unexpected for everyone as there was no previous canon interaction that indicated a romantic interest on either side. This extremely jarring development was seen as being little more than a calculated slap in the face of the fans because it badly jossed several popular ships -- which the showrunners had been aware of and had even hinted at in several episodes. Such was the negative reactions to "Endgame" among Janeway/Chakotay shippers that a Die Seven Die! challenge to the Usenet discussion newsgroup Alt.startrek.creative ultimately garnered over 100 responses and spawned a short-lived sub-genre of Seven death fics. Also, The Shipper Boycott of Trek was organized, a group of fans that vowed not to purchase anything Trek-related and voiced their displeasure, via e-mail, to Paramount.The Shipper Boycott of Trek webpage, archive link
Discontent was so widespread that two separate groups of fans began virtual season projects to provide fans with alternate, more satisfactory endings to the series. One group of respected BNFs decided to collaborate and re-write not just "Endgame", but the entire second half of Voyager's 7th season. The result was the Voyager Virtual Season 7.5 project Virtual Voyager Season 7.5 Project homepage. Accessed Novemeber 2, 2008., an acclaimed but ultimately unfinished work spanning three 'seasons'. Another group of fans, led by Executive Producer Thinkey opted to begin their virtual season after the events of "Endgame", and Voyager Virtual Season Eight (VVS8) was launched in June 2001.Lisa. Voyager Virtual Season 8 Launches, published on 22 June 2001 at TrekToday. (Accessed 9 March 2011.) A second season -- Voyager Virtual Season 9 -- followed, and the combined seasons were known as the Voyager Virtual Season Project (VVSP).Voyager Virtual Season Project
A fan in 2009 commented: 
thumb|240px|Distracted Boyfriend Meme illustrating how a large portion of fans felt about the Endgame pairing, with over 2000 notes on Tumblr as of October 2018
A succinct comment from 2009: 
A Fan comment in 2018: 
"Endgame" was one of the reasons Orion Press discontinued all of its non-Classic Trek fanzine publishing. From Randall Landers' explanation on the press's webpage:
==Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
:For a full listing of Voyager Fanfiction on Fanlore, see :Category:Star Trek VOY Fanfiction
*In the Arms of Family by Janet, Christina, Cybermum, Diane, Julie, Monkee, Penny Proctor, and Rocky
*The Best of Both Girls by Jim Wright
*Going Away by Boadicea and Kelly Chambliss.
*Imprinted by Ventura33
*Lies Our Father Told Us by m.c. moose
*Only Me by Boadicea12
*Open Water by Boadicea
*Refugee Camp Voyager by Ventura33
*Talking Stick/Circle by Macedon and Peg Robinson, a much admired epic from the early days of the fandom.
*Up-Lifting Conversation by m.c. moose
====An Extensive 2006 Fan/Fic Finder====
In 2006, Seperis made a post in hopes of reconnecting past VOY fans with each other. It has 288 replies.
See Where Are They Now? (Dreamwidth); Where Are They Now? (Livejournal).
===Vids===
*RandyM. Her vid "Closing Time" won a 2000 MediaWest vidding award for Best Song Interpretation -- Single Fandom (Slash) - (2nd Place).
*DamnBee.org Voyager vids.
===Zines===
:For a full listing of Star Trek: Voyager zines on Fanlore, see: :Category:Star Trek VOY Zines
*The Array
*Coyote
*Enemy of My Enemy
=== Meta ===
* I think all of us can say this about a show... by Alara Rogers [1996]
== Mailing Lists ==
* The Chakotay/Paris Writers' Support Group
* Eternally C/P
*Forbiddenluv
*HerCaptain (f/f)
*Janeway7 (f/f)
*Janeway-seven (f/f)
*Protective!Chakotay Club (m/m)
*Voq_Je_Bang (f/f)
*Voyager Romance
* Description: 	"Slash fanfiction about Harry Kim & Gregory Ayala. Please note - the group started from a Chakotay/Paris list, so we would appreciate it if that pairing was respected. Adults only. [Archive/other website: The Ayala/Kim League Archive]"
* Description: 	"This is for adult members of the Garrett Wang APprEtiation Society ---> GWAPES! YAY!!! If you love Garrett Wang and you love slash fiction this is the list for you!"
* Description: 	"Come one, come all of those who believe there is more to Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine's relationship....We all know it's true! Janeway and Seven are meant for one another! And we shall overcome! This is the mailing list for the akajabohomo website www.geocities.com/akajabohomo."
==Archives and Websites==
* Star Trek: Voyager @ ff.net
* Star Trek: Voyager @ AO3
* Lower Decks
* Trekiverse
* Voyager's Delights (defunct)
* a very extensive list of old websites: Voyager sites
* Captain Janeway's Webring
* B'Elanna Torres's Star Trek & Xena:WP Stories Page
* Lisa's Star Trek: Voyager Fan Fiction
* Kalita's Lair - a now defunct slash fanfiction site
* Fanfiction by Tigermoth - another defunct slash fanfiction site 
For more see:
::Category:Star Trek VOY Websites
::Category:Star Trek VOY Slash Websites
::Category:Star Trek VOY Femslash Websites
==1999 Interview with Ron Moore==
* The Ron Moore Interview
==References==
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