Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6887 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-11-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 7
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 7
• Running time: 999 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
For many fans, Voyager hit its peak in the fourth season, due in no small part to a certain former Borg drone named Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 0-1, but you can call her Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Following the season 3 cliffhanger "Scorpion," the crew enters an unlikely alliance with the Borg against Species 8472, led by Seven of Nine, who ends up restoring (mostly) her human roots and trying to assimilate herself among Voyager's crew all the time feeling the pull of the Collective and resisting the mother-hen attempts of Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). While Seven's curvaceous figure and skin-tight uniform certainly won over many fans, she was helped by a commanding presence, good writing ("So you wish to copulate?" was a classic line), and a stage that was cleared for her by the coinciding departure of one of the most prominent characters of the series.

Other significant developments of the season included the actors getting to stretch themselves out "Mirror, Mirror"-like as evil counterparts in "Living Witness" (also Tim Russ's directing debut), the time- and mind-bending two-parter "Year of Hell," a battle with 1940s Nazis in the two-part "The Killing Game," the Doctor's comedic sparring with a new rival in "Message in a Bottle," the Alien-like "Prey," and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan MacNeill) taking a personal step and switching bodies with an alien in "Vis a Vis." The DVD set offers the usual 20-minute season overview, crew profiles of Seven of Nine (natch) and Harry Kim (both of whom show warm appreciation for the Trek crowd), features on Species 8472 and the art of matte painting, and episode spotlights. --David Horiuchi

DVD Description
Following the stunning conclusion of Janeway's deal with the Borg in "Scorpion", look out for these choice Voyager Season 4 episodes:

• In The Raven, crew newcomer Seven of Nine relives the terror of her assimilation as a six-year-old girl
  
• The feature-length The Year of Hell sees Janeway's crew and ship decimated and reduced to one last suicide attempt to prevent time-shifting mass-murderers
  
• The Doctor meets his successor, the prissy EMH-2 in Message in a Bottle
  
• In the feature-length The Killing Game, the crew are forced to play deadly war-games by Hirogen Hunters who have over-run Voyager

Special Features
Disc Seven Extra Features Extras not on the US generic release 1) RED ALERT: AMAZING VISUAL EFFECTS 2) VOYAGER RELEASE PARTY Other extras include 1) BRAVING THE UNKNOWN: SEASON FOUR 2) TIME CAPSULE: SEVEN OF NINE 3) TIME CAPSULE: HARRY KIM 4) THE BIRTH OF SPECIES 8472 5) THE ART OF ALIEN WORLDS 6) PHOTO GALLERY 7) LOST TRANSMISSIONS 1-6 (Easter Eggs)

Customer Reviews

Goodbye Kes - Hello Boys!
Season 4 of Voyager warps into action with its first episode - "Scorpion, Part 2". As well as being a satisfying and exciting conclusion to the Season 3 cliffhanger, it also introduces us to a new character - Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct to Unimatrix Zero-One... you can call her Seven (inaccurate, but acceptable!). Seven is the new regular this season, replacing Ocampan Kes (who is written out in a slightly hurried and absolutely ridiculous fashion in the second episode "The Gift"). Sorry to have spoilt it for anyone who was unaware of this development... but come on, you must have been living under Kirk's rock the last few decades if you didn't already know, and besides which the opening titles for the very first episode include a credit for Jeri Ryan, and not for Jennifer Lien. Seven's introduction as a Borg Drone is completely at odds with everything we know about the Borg species - Drones are emotionless, visibly genderless, speak in a modulated way that they sound like every other drone, and generally act merely as a tool for the collective - Seven displays many emotions, speaks in a normal, unmodulated voice, and has thonking great breasts! But we don't care because she's so entertaining! After she is liberated from the collective in the first episode, the second episode (as well as getting rid of Kes) basically focuses on the Doctor removing her implants etc, so she looks more human, while the rest of the crew try to convince her how great being an individual is. Luckily for the viewer, she doesn't just roll over and happily accept individuality within an episode or 2 (as one would expect from Star Trek), but she has a very difficult time coming to terms with it over the course of the season. In the earlier episodes she very actively wants to be back with the collective, and in the 6th episode, "The Raven", she is very near to being re-assimilated, while later episodes focus more on her inability to deal with social situations, or to adhere to the chain of command within the ship.

Aside from Seven, this season as a whole is a very strong one again, in fact, even stronger than season 3. After "The Gift", third episode "Day of Honor" is only okay, but from then on its another incredible run of episodes, in fact, only two episodes stop it from being a home run to the season finale. The two episodes that don't quite make the grade - episode 12 "Mortal Coil", in which Neelix dies and is resurrected, and episode 22 "Unforgettable", in which Chakotay falls in love with a woman who he is unable to remember, - are far from awful (as, say, Season 3's "Favorite Son" is), but are uninspiring and poorly executed. Before we get to "Mortal Coil", we have "Nemesis", where Chakotay is brainwashed into fighting for an alien army, "Revulsion", where B'Elanna is stalked by a hygiene-crazed hologram who wants to rid the galaxy of biological life forms, the aforementioned "The Raven", "Scientific Method", where invisible aliens construct secret experiments on the crew, the "Year of Hell" two parter, "Random Thoughts", where B'Elanna is convicted of having a bad thought, and "Concerning Flight", a wonderfully whimsical episode where Janeway has to recover stolen Voyager technology with the aide of her holographical Leonardo Da Vinvci , thanks to the Doctor's mobile emitter.

The "Year of Hell" two-parter is absolutely stunning. In my opinion it's the best two-parter Star Trek has ever had. It spans a whole year as Voyager traverses Krenim Space, whilst in conflict with the said species. Voyager takes a right battering over the year due to the Krenim being in posession of a temporal weapon - so they can keep re-writing history in their favour. Thanks to the efforts of Paris and Chakotay who are on the Krenim ship, history is put back on its right course and the threat from the Krenim species is no longer there. Yes, this is a bit of a reset button, but there was no other way Voyage could tell a story like this without some sort of `reset button' without a complete overhauling of the series' format!

We then have "Waking Moments", where the crew encounter an alien species in their dreams, "Message in a Bottle", where the Doctor is sent through a data stream to the alpha quadrant, and has to regain control of a federation ship from the Romulans, "Hunters", in which the alien race the Hirogen are introduced, "Prey", where the crew have to team up with a Hirogen to fight 8472, "Retrospect", where Seven uncovers a hidden memory of being abused, "The Killing Game" parts 1&2, where the Hirogen take over Voyager and use its Holodecks to simulate various combat scenarios, with the crew as the prey, "Vis a Vis", where an alien takes over Tom's body, "The Omega Directive", where the crew discover a deposit of rare substance Omega - that the Borg hail as perfection, "Living Witness", where a backup version of the Doctor is activated hundreds of years after Voyager's time in the delta quadrant - and has to correct their inaccurate version of history that casts the Voyager crew as villains, "Demon", where the ship lands on a planet that contains a substance with the ability to mimic anyone or anything, and "One", where the crew is put in stasis and Seven has to run the ship sngle-handed. The final episode, "Hope and Fear" is surprisingly not a cliffhanger, but is in itself a fantastic season finale.

Overall Season 4 of Voyager is a great collection of Science Fiction adventures, and honestly, if you were only going to buy one season, I'd recommend this one.

The Best of the franchise
In 1996, we were all given what we had been waiting for for years. First Contact! If my calculations are correct, it would of came out just as Season 3 of Voyager was starting. I don't think the producers quite knew what impact First Contact would have on the franchise. With that, by season 4, the budget was bigger, the computer graphics were breath taking....you would hardly believe it was the same seriese. My reccomendation, all you need to know is....start watching Voyager from this point.....you aint missing much in previouse episodes. One of the best in my opinion is Hope and Fear....species 8472 are very much like the aliens in Indipendance Day! Ok, Im going to have a moan now, I'm not too impressed with the CGI in the last two movies - bring back the models - that is the magic of Star Trek!

Really good season
I was never really that into Voyager, mainly because the characters are, to be quite honest, rather tiresome and predictable. Then just as I was about to give up bothering to watch it, season 4 came along and my God did it make me change my mind!. This season's addition of Seven Of Nine as a new crew member really shakes things up (think about it: Kes or Seven on an excitement scale hmmm.... that took a long time to figure that one out!!!). The best episodes I'd say are Scorpion part 2, One (which is really really good), Prey, Hope and Fear and Year of Hell (both parts). It does kind of lag by the last third of the season with quite a few fillers but on the whole this season was a total blast and wasn't really matched by the following seasons (I switched off at season 6!). If you want to buy Voyager on DVD I'd recommend this season head and shoulders above the rest.