Star Trek: Voyager

Emanantions (S1E09) Airdate: 13 March 1995 Written by: Brannon Braga Directed by: David Livingstone Running Time: 45 minutes One of the foundational pillars of *Star Trek* has always been the spirit of exploration, a mandate that traditionally extended to the furthest reaches of space, the strangest alien species, and the most complex scientific anomalies. However, the "Great Beyond"—specifically the metaphysical co…

Ex Post Facto (S1E08) Airdate: 27 February 1995 Written by: Michael Piller & Evan Carlos Sommer Directed by: LeVar Burton Running Time: 45 minutes The Golden Age of Star Trek, spanning the late 1980s through the 1990s, was a period defined not just by groundbreaking technology and production value, but by a distinct cyclical nature in its storytelling. It was common for the original series to recycle plots and premi…

Eye of the Needle (S1E07) Airdate: 20 February 1995 Written by: Jeri Taylor Directed by: Winrich Kolbe Running Time: 45 minutes The prospect of a six-and-a-half-year epic journey home brought with it many opportunities for the producers of *Star Trek: Voyager*, but it also carried with it many possible drawbacks. On the one hand, a plot that essentially consists of moving from point A to point B made things refreshi…

The Cloud (S1x06) Airdate: 13 February 1995 Written by: Tom Szollosi & Michael Piller Directed by: David Livingston Running Time: 45 minutes "The Cloud," nominally the sixth episode of *Voyager*, can be interpreted as the first genuinely "regular" episode of the series—or, to be more precise, the first one that adheres to the formula inherited from *The Original Series* and *The Next Generation*, while at the same t…

Phage (S1E05) Airdate: 6 February 1995 Written by: Skye Dent & Brannon Braga Directed by: Winrich Kolbe Running Time: 46 minutes From its very inception, *Star Trek: Voyager* established itself as the darkest of all the series produced during what many consider the Golden Age of the Star Trek franchise. The show began with catastrophe — the crew's violent displacement to the Delta Quadrant — and built its central pr…

Time and Again (S1E04) Airdate: 30 January 1995 Written by: David Kemper Directed by: Les Landau Running Time: 46 minutes *Star Trek: Voyager*'s pilot had established, with considerable dramatic finality, that the voyage of its protagonists towards their home in the Alpha Quadrant would take approximately seventy-five years. Even with the eventual seven-year series run taken into account—and the reasonable assumptio…

Parallax (S1E03) Airdate: 23 January 1995 Written by: Brannon Braga Directed by: Kim Friedman Running Time: 46 minutes *Caretaker*, Voyager's feature-length pilot, had accomplished the necessary heavy lifting of premise and setup—stranding a Federation starship in the Delta Quadrant, seventy-five years from home, with a crew of uneasy allies comprising Starfleet officers and Maquis rebels. Yet pilots are invariably…

Caretaker (S1E0/S1E02) Airdate: 18 January 1995 Written by: Matthew Piller & Jeri Taylor Directed by: Winrich Kolbe Running Time: 46 minutes *Star Trek: Voyager* is the final panel of a triptych constituting the franchise's Golden Age. It followed a proven sequence of successes—the film series, *The Next Generation*, and the ongoing *Deep Space Nine*—and thus embodied Star Trek at its most self-assured. This confide…