Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2248 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 704 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Star Trek: Voyager began life in 1995 with some truly fascinating prospects in its two-hour pilot episode. Opening in the 24th century, a setting contemporary with that of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and carrying over story elements from each of those series, "Caretaker" finds Starfleet Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) stepping into the middle of Federation troubles with the Maquis, an army of rebels violently resisting the interplanetary organization's treaty with the brutal Cardassians. In the process, both Voyager and the Maquis ship under surveillance are accidentally catapulted out of the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant (the familiar stomping grounds of Starfleet personnel) by a benign but dying being called the Caretaker. Voyager ends up in the unexplored Delta Quadrant, some 70,000 light years away.

So much seemed dramatically promising in this debut, especially the unwieldy alliance of Starfleet regulars and hostile Maquis, and the likelihood that a lifetime spent in isolation, trying to get home, would lead to the development of a self-contained society on the ship, yet Voyager never entirely made up its mind what it was supposed to be about. The curiously cheesy sets and fascinating, progressive management style of Janeway (half mommy, half taskmaster) were also new developments in Star Trek culture. As the 16-episode season continued, character backstories were developed in such episodes as "The Cloud" (arguably the best episode of the season), "Eye of the Needle" (underscoring Janeway and the crew's sadness), "State of Flux" (in which a search for a traitor reveals a past romance between Commander Chakotay, played by Robert Beltran, and sexy Bajoran engineer Seska, played by Martha Hackett), and "Jetrel" (which explores the character of Neelix, the Talaxian played by Ethan Phillips, during a parable about scientific ethics and moral responsibility).

Among other notable episodes, "Phage" strikes a nice balance among character development, story hook, and moral and emotional conflict when Neelix is literally robbed of his lungs by the Vidiians, a once-civilized people who are combating a deadly disease called the Phage by stealing organs. (The disease would return in "Faces," a fine showcase for Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres.) "Emanations" stirred controversy among the series' producers and some fans for its philosophical look at death, and "Time and Again" is a unique time-travel story in which Janeway and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) get caught in a subspace fracture that places them just hours before they know a planet is going to be destroyed. In "Prime Factors," latent tensions among Voyager personnel erupts into serious conflict, an issue revisited in the season finale, "Learning Curve." Despite a pat ending that resolves the Maquis conflict much too easily, the episode drives home the fact that Voyager and its crew are all alone, making the most of a difficult predicament. --Tom Keogh and Jeff Shannon

Synopsis
Another spin-off of the Star Trek series, this time focusing on the Federation starship USS Voyager as its crew bands together with a group of Maquis rebels to return home from the far-flung Delta Quadrant. This set includes all 15 episodes from season one of the the Emmy-award winning series including the feature length first episode 'The Caretaker'. When Starfleet Security Officer Tuvok, working undercover aboard a vessel commandeered by a band of renegade freedom fighters, disappears the U.S.S. Voyager, under the guidance of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek's very first female captain), is dispatched to find him. During hot pursuit, both ships are mysteriously transported to the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light years away. Now the only hope for escape is an unlikely collaboration between the two crews.

Customer Reviews

Voyager's First Season
Startrek Voyager, based on the original created by Gene Roddenberry, is a Science Fiction series set in the twenty forth century. The show follows the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her crew on board the USS Voyager. After an encounter with an Alien life-form (the Caretaker), they become stranded in the delta quadrant, on the other side of the galaxy, They must all learn to work together in order to try and get home.

The enjoyable thing about Voyager, is that everything was new. A new ship, a new crew, a new part of space that's never been seen before giving raise to new species that we have never encountered before (such as the Vidiians), all of which produced an element of excitement in fans.

The acting from most involved was great. The holographic doctor (a computer simulation) is played perfectly by Robert Picardo, and is the highlight of many point of the first season.

A few of the episodes in this season were fantastic, such as the pilot "Caretaker" and "Eye of the Needle", but other than a few, the rest don't really do much to help the show become established, and a few to many of the ideas are very similar to those seen in Star Trek The Next Generation."

Not the greatest season of Voyager, but an essential starting point, and a taste of things to come, as Star Trek Voyager would develop into a brilliant show spanning seven seasons.

The worst value Voyager boxset
So like The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine the slimline version of voyager rolls around.
Season 1 is by far Voyager's weakest season with the show in its teething period trying to establish itself but some of the scripts just seem like cast-offs from TNG or DS9
The stand out epsiodes this first season are the feature lenght pilot 'caretaker', the organ harvesting aliens in 'the phage' and a double agent amongst the crew in 'state of flux', not to say that the other episodes are bad just not very memorable.
The show improves in season 2 before coming into its own in season 3.
This boxset is also only five discs as opposed to the other seven disc voyager boxsets, with only sixteen epsiodes instead of twenty-six spread over four discs and the fifth disc housing the special features.
The box itself is roughly the size of a video taking up little space unlike the previous chunky box release this is the version to get but wait until it drops in price a little to get better value for your money

Star Trek Voyager is simply amazing
This is a general review about the Star Trek Voyager series. It's inexpensive, has all the features of the expensive box sets, doesn't take up too much room, and the story line is simply fantastic, they managed to have a plot line for the whole of the star trek voyager series, yet somehow make each one it's own. I have just ordered Series 5 and will be ordering more. Star Trek Voyager is timeless, it was made in 1995 and yet it looks as though it was made this year. Simply Brilliant