Product Description

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips Writers: Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Rick Berman

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20759 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-05-03
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 6
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: 1.46 pounds
• Running time: 800 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all from Gene Roddenberry, made its debut in 1995 and quickly established itself both as markedly different from cosmic cousin Deep Space Nine and as the successor to The Next Generation. Despite a lack of originality in its premise (Lost in Space anyone?), Voyager was nonetheless often a bigger ratings success than any of its predecessors.

In the first series the crew of the Federation vessel Voyager must somehow try to get back home after being catapulted unwittingly to the far-flung Delta Quadrant (in the opening "Caretaker"). The ghost of Katherine Hepburn lives on in Kate Mulgrew's forceful Captain Janeway, who has an equivocal relationship with the Maquis renegade who becomes her first officer, Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Tim Russ gives possibly the franchise's first fully realistic (yawn) portrayal of a Vulcan, and to enhance the alien quotient there's cuddly chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips). Garret Wang must have drawn short straw for character development, since his Harry Kim is never imbued with any of the drama of rebellious pilot chum Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), who was later to get the series' only romance with the seemingly inescapable resident half-breed B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). Right from the start, though, the fans' favourite character was the deadpan funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless holographic Doctor. Jerry Goldsmith's graceful theme always opens the show in style. --Paul Tonks

DVD Description
Six-disc DVD set comprising of four discs containing all the episodes from Series 1 and two discs of Special Features, including documentaries and two episodes from the original Star Trek series.

Disc 1:

• Caretaker (feature length)
  
• Parallax
  
• Time And Again

Disc 2:

• Phage
  
• The Cloud
  
• Eye Of The Needle
  
• Ex Post Facto

Disc 3:

• Emanations
  
• Prime Factors
  
• State Of Flux
  
• Heroes And Demons

Disc 4:

• Cathexis
  
• Faces
  
• Jetrel
  
• Learning Curve

Special Features
Disc 5:

• Braving The Unknown: Season One: includes new interviews with Executive Producers Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor discussing how the three of them created the series. They reveal the challenges of creating fresh, new characters, a new premise and the risks of sending the crew into unfamiliar Star Trek territory.
  
• Voyager Time Capsule: Kathryn Janeway: a new, exclusive interview with Kate Mulgrew talking about how she landed the role of Janeway, the challenges of playing a female captain and her Broadway play on Katherine Hepburn, Tea At Five. Also includes archival interviews with the actress and rare behind-the-scenes footage.
  
• The First Captain: Genevieve Bujold: reveals rare footage and outtakes of Ms. Bujold as Captain Janeway, with commentary by Executive Producer Rick Berman.
  
• Cast Reflections: Season One: Voyager’s principal cast members discuss their reactions to joining the Star Trek franchise, getting fan mail, and auditioning. Also featured: Armin Shimerman discussing his role as Quark in the pilot episode.
  
• On Location With the Kazons: Supervising Producer David Livingston guides viewers on an exclusive tour of the desert locale used for the Kazon Village in the pilot episode. Includes interviews with Director Rick Kolbe and behind-the-scenes footage of the cast.
  
• Red Alert: Visual Effects Season One: Dan Curry and the Visual Effects crew give the blow by blow of some spectacular visual effects created for season one. Highlights include: behind-the-scenes footage of exploding space station, utilizing fire elements in crashing Chakotay’s ship and secrets of shooting the Voyager ship model.
  
• Launching Voyager On The Web: Veteran website designer Marc Wade explains how, in the early days of the internet, an interactive Voyager website was created to help launch the series. Included is rare footage of Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo playing their roles for a trivia game, plus an overview of Star Trek’s history on the Web.
  
• Real Science With Andre Bormanis: Science Consultant and screenwriter Bormanis explores how the writers strive for authenticity by incorporating real space phenomena and scientific theories. For Season One, Andre discusses how Hubble photos helped create ‘the Badlands,’ voyaging through wormholes, and the possibilities of time travel.
  
• Lost Transmissions From The Delta Quadrant: hidden in the Voyager menu, viewers who search and click with their DVD remote can find special interview clips with Kate Mulgrew, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga and guest star Vaughn Armstrong (from Eye of the Needle).
  
• Star Trek: The Experience : a Klingon warrior and other aliens on a special tour of the Las Vegas attraction, including a rare behind the scenes look at the making if the virtual ride. Included are cast and crew interviews discussing the Star Trek Museum, Quark’s Bar and Restaurant, and rare collectibles.
  
• Photo Gallery

Disc 6:

• Star Trek The Original Series ‘Arena’ episode 019
  
• Star Trek The Original Series ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ episode 028
  
• DS9 DVD Trailer
  
• Next Generation DVD Trailer

Customer Reviews

Its finally on DVD!!
Iv'e been waiting for Voyager to arrive on DVD for years, and its finally here! On first impressions, the Box Set is well presented in a tough plastic case, with the STV, and Starfleet logo raised up on the front of the box, with a chrome like effect on them. Inside you get a set of 6 DVD's, which are set in a clear plastic mount (like half a CD case) which have been stuck together along one edge, which keeps the collection together nicely. The whole collection is found inside a cardboard sleeve with the STV logo on it. The presentation is very tidy, and well designed in my opinion. As for the DVD's themselves, they are all presented in Dolby Digital, and have superb picture quality, which is something you should expect for £55. The claimed "Missing" episodes, are actually from season two, but were broadcast with season one, so you can dispell all of those claims that its not the complete series. The scripting was as fantastic as ever, with the mix of drama, and comedy, with romance in the later seasons, is an all round entertaining series, and one of the best to come from the franchise. The extras are what i have come to expect from Paramount, with two full ST: TOS episodes, and over an hour of interviews, and behind the scenes of Voyager. I have no complaints and am 100% satisfied with the product, and will be purchasing the rest as they become available! All in all, Fantastic!!

I beg to differ
I just have to post this to explain that NO EPISODES ARE MISSING from the season one box set of Voyager. Paramount did make extra episodes to be included in season one, but it was decided that these episodes would be held back for season two. Every episode that actually aired as season one episodes are in the season one box set. There are no episodes missing from this set whatsoever! As to the actual viewing order of episodes in season 1, they are in the original order of which they were aired. Some episodes you may watch were actually made after the episode that follows. But these are in order of air date! Hope this clarifys a few things for those people who may have been put off buying this(and other)boxset due to a review which was totally innacurate! A great buy, i'm glad to say i have all Star Trek box sets so far and can't wait for Enterprise next month!

Top marks for a great boxset
Having enjoyed watching Voyager again it is great to finally get hold of this amazing boxset after only ever having had voyager on vhs before. Season 1 had it flows but tell me of any Star Trek series that didnt have to prove its self in the beginning dont be alarmed that their are a few episodes missing as they had originally been held back for season 2 when it was first aired in the states back in 1995 so they will be in the next boxset. I found the extras interesting did you know that Kate Mulgrew was'nt originally cast to play Janeway also they are 2 episodes of the original Star Trek series there.

a great boxset and a must have for any fan!!!