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Star Trek: Voyager

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This is the best season yet for Voyager and they keep getting better!

Basics Part II
After Voyager is hijacked and the crew marooned on a desolate planet, the 2 remaining on board, Lon Suder and the holographic doctor, struggle to regain control of the ship. Meanwhile the stranded crew have to deal with primitive humanoids on the planet. Tom Paris is also in space helping to take back Voyager.

Flashback
Tuvok reexperiences a memory which he tried to suppress about when he was a cadet on the USS Excelsior, commanded by Capt. Sulu.

The Chute
Tom Paris and Harry Kim are thrown into an alien prison after a trumped up charge a terrorist bombing
Janeway realzes that the evidence against them is inaccurate and tries to get them released.

The Swarm
After alien species warns Voyager not to enter their territory and the crew are unable to comply the holographic doctor's program goes on the fritz

False Profits
The crew of Voyager encounter the 2 Ferengi who were lost in a wormhole 7 years earlier. They have fooled the native population of a nearby planet into believing that they are gods.

Remember
While Voyager is transporting some people back their homeworld, B'Elanna Torres begins to have mysterois dreams and suspicions fall on Voyager's telepathic guests.

Sacred Ground
After Kes enters a shrine and knocked into a coma by a burst of energy, the crew discover the only way to revive her is a ritual that may require one of her friends to sacrafice their life.

Future's End Part I
A Federation ship from 500 years in the future fires on Voyager after claiming that Voyager is in danger of causing Earth's solar system to be destroyed. As Voyager fires back, both ships are swept back in time to Earth in the year 1996 They later discover their presence there may be a predestination paradox and at the same time struggle to get back to their own time.

Future's End Part II
Voyager's crew continue to try getting back to their own time.

Warlord
Kes' body is taken over by the ghost of a long dead dictator.

The Q and the Grey
Q returns to the ship and asks Janeway to be the mother of his child, when a female Q comes aboard the ship, it is later revealed that their is a civil war happening in the Q contimuum and that the birth of a Q child may be the only way to end the war.

Macrocosm
Voyager is infested with giant 3-foot bug like viruses.

Fair Trade
When Voyager reaches the Nekrit expanse Neelix says that he will not be able to help as much because he has not been past that region of space. When Neelix tries to procure a map of the area ahead, he is offered one by a drug dealer in exchange for helping him sell drugs.

Alter Ego
A holodeck charcter suddenly develops a very human personality and is seen outside the holodeck.

Coda
Janeway and Chakotay are attacked by Viidians and crash land on an alien planet. When they both are killed and find themselves back on the shuttlecraft they suspect that they are caught in a time loop.

Blood Fever
After a Vulcan crewmember enters pon farr the Vulcan equiveland of being in heat, he chooses Torres to be his mate.

Unity
Voyager encounters a colony of former Borg drones living on a nearby planet

Darkling
When the doctor starts adding the personalities of historical Earth figures to his program, problems arise and he starts becoming hostile.

Rise
Voyager helps the inhabitants of a planet that is being hit by asteroids.

Favorite Son
When encountering a humanoid alien race, Kim suspects that he may be a one of them. They say that he was conceived on their world and implanted in the womb of an Earth woman. Now they want him 'back'

Before and After
Kes suddenly begins shifting backward and forward through time.

Real Life
The doctor starts a holodeck program where he plays the role of a man with a wife and kids.

Distant Origin
A reptilian humanoid scientist believes that his species ancestors were Earth dinosaurs and kidnaps Chakotay to find out if it may be true.

Worst Case Scenario
A holonovel program about the former Maquis crewmembers staging a revolt on Voyager suddenly surfaces and the crew are trapped with the safties turned off.

Displaced
Voyager's crewmembers are continualy being kidnapped and beamed to alien spacestation while at the same time aliens are being beamed aboard Voyager

Scorpion part I
As the crew of Voyager enter Borg space they begin to notice than many birg ships are being destroyed by a powerful alien race which seem to be invincible. When Voyager discovers a weakness, she intends to give it to the borg in exchange for safe passage through their space.

Season 3 was really good and had an excellent season finale cliffhanger.
Character development was well established by the end of season 3 and overall this is pretty good set to buy if you like Star Trek.

Wake up Paramount! Take a cue from your sales on the STTNG sets. Now that you have finally come to your senses and dropped the prices on the sets to where they should have been in the FIRST PLACE, I would imagine that all of the hold-outs (like me) are now buying them.

See, it works like this, 30 minute shows on DVD, for a season, have earned a market fair price of $25-35. So, since Star Trek episodes are an hour long, that means a fair doubling of the price puts it into the $50-70 range. So, $60 is your sweet spot.

You will be able to take in the obsessive fans with your initial insane pricing points, but everyone else looks at your current price tags, especially with the shoddy packaging that you are still foisting on us, and just laughs and waits for the inevitable price drop. So, do us all a favor and fire your marketing and sales people, drop the price to where it is supposed to be, and earn your sales. Nobody sane is going to pay more than $60 for a season of an hour long/episode TV show on DVD, period.

For my money, season three is one of the very best of Voyager. It's clearly a transitional year, from what I feel was a very weak season two to a more action-oriented, meaty, and fun season four.

The most superb episode of the season, and one of the best of Trek, is Scorpion Part 1, which introduces Species 8472. I remember watching this when it was originally broadcast. Back then the idea of a species "more powerful than the Borg" was almost unimaginable. The introduction of this alien race really injected some life into Voyager villainy, which had been mired for two seasons in the tired and rehashed Kazon story arc. Just look at the foreheads of those guys and tell me that they're not just a cross between Cardassians and Klingons. And we never met a Kazon female!

The other standouts in the third year of Voyager are Future's End, though the first installment is much more interesting and tightly scripted than the second; the engaging Distant Origin, which very cleverly presented its first couple of acts from the perspective of the dinosaur aliens; and Before and After. Not many praise that episode, but it does showcase some of Jennifer Lien's best acting, especially when she's a very confused 9-yr.-old at the episode's beginning. The backwards plot movement makes us wonder what happens next--meaning what happened before--along with Kes. We get at least a glimpse of what Kes might have developed into over the seven-year run of the show, are introduced to the Krenem, and the episode moves along the Torres-Paris romance subplot. We even get a passing reference to Kes' one lung (she donated the other to Neelix in season one). What's not to like?

Solid episodes in season three are many: There's the strong Basics Part 2, which nicely wraps up the Kazon, Seska, and Suder story lines, and The Swarm, where we finally get to meet, sort of, the Doctor's creator. There's False Profits, which finds a clever way to bring the Ferengi into the Delta Quadrant, simply by pointing out that two have been there already for a few years. I like very much both Remember and Sacred Ground, though by the end of the season Janeway seems to forget the lesson in spirituality she learned in the latter episode. When in Scorpion Leonardo suggests that she pray, Janeway rejects the suggestion pretty much immediately. Also solid are The Q and the Grey, though this gets derailed by the end, and Macrocosm, with its famous, or infamous, scenes of Kate Mulgrew looking fantastic in her tank top. I also like Blood Fever very much, as well as Unity, Displaced, Worst Case Scenario, and Real Life. This last I long thought poorly of because the Klingon friends of the Doctor's holographic son struck me as a negative racial stereotype. But perhaps I was being oversensitive.

Weaker, but still good, episodes include Flashback, which could have been great, The Chute, Alter Ego, Coda, and Warlord, which could have been really silly if not for Lien's intense performance. I know a lot of people hate Favorite Son and Harry Kim episodes generally, but this episode does have that sense of campiness that made the original series so much fun. Demon women pounding big wooden sticks on the floor just really appeals to me, I guess.

Two episodes I would rate the season's worst. First, Rise, which tries to be pulse-pounding but ends up being just dumb, and second, Darkling, which even that superb thespian Robert Picardo can't save. I was also annoyed that this episode assumes that the romance of Neelix and Kes has already ended. The problem is that the "break up" between the two in Warlord occurs when Kes is being possessed by an alien. So did they ever really break up? Did they ever talk about it ro resolve the relationship? We're just left hanging on this score. The relationship between these two characters always felt weird, though, so it's good that it ended somehow, I suppose.

After basically suffering through rewatchings of many season two episodes, the season three DVD set provided a pretty exhilarating experience. The extra stuff is generally good, though the "Braving the Unknown" segment seems much shorter than for seasons 1 and 2, and the "Easter Egg" ostensible surprises are pretty lame. Three-fourths of most of them consist of clips from episodes that you could just watch yourself, interspersed with a few comments by one actor or another. Certainly these extras are better than nothing, but it would be great to see more interviews with well-known guest actors.

In sum: every Voyager fan must own this, and Star Trek and sci fi fans more generally should give it a try, starting perhaps with the last two discs.

I LOVE Star Trek Voyager, but there seems to be some cheap DVD manufacturing going on. I purchased this DVD set, and straight out of the box, there was a consistent glitch in the DVD. There are generally 4 episodes per disc. On all of them, except the last disc where there was a different format, the last 5 minutes (approximately) of the second episode and the first 5 minutes (again approximate) of the 3rd episode are missing. It locks up the player and nothing can be done. There were no visible scratches and the amount of time missing was very consistent. I tested all discs on several different players including a computer type DVD player, a regular television type player, and a portable DVD player. So... it is the discs, not the player. Other people leaving reviews did not all have this problem, so it may be an intermittent manufacturing problem, but it did happen to me also on a Season 4 set on disc 1. Considering this set is over $100, please take this possible defect into consideration.

On the actual content of the season, I loved it and have no complaints so my rating of 3 stars is based on an average. 5 stars for content, 1 star for quality of the manufactured product. I hope this is helpful to you. I have never experienced such an odd problem before and never saw it coming!

The first two seasons of Voyager had some great episodes but the show didn't seem to be going anywhere and once season three began, the show started to become old and worn out like the 1960's Enterprise. After the Kazon left the show Voyager started to get better I believe. The series started going on weekly adventures and it was fun. Some of my favorite episodes came out of season three like "Flashback", "Q and the Grey", and "Unity." My most favorites have to be "Blood Fever" where things heat up between Paris and Torres and we learn more about the Vulcan's, also a great Borg episode called "Scorpion, part I" which is considered one of Voyager's greatest episodes. There isn't really any awful episodes in season three but there is a share of weak and very forgettable episodes like "False Profits", "Rise" and a few others. Other then just a few weak episodes, this season was a great season which was the start of a long streak of great Trek seasons. If you like good Sci-Fi get these DVD's!!!

Here we are now at season 3. We start out this season with Janeway and crew in the worst possible circumstances--stranded on a planet with only the clothes on their back and no way to send out for help. A few more recurring characters get killed off and even this sets up some future plot lines that will reveal themselves in the next few seasons.

This season also gives us another glimpse of the Q Continuum--this time it is viewed as a US Civil War Battlefield. So many variations that they could have done with this. We also get glimpses of what comes next for this wayward crew--the Year Of Hell first appears here as Kes' nightmares. Then there is the first encounters with the Borg--sooner or later, they were going to appear in the story. I liked how they outlined Voyager's first contact with them--on a planet where the inhabitants went underground to escape attacks from above and in the final scene, Chakotay tells Janeway they found out who attacked these people when the find a dead Borg body in one of the mineshaft entrances. One question I have always had, though was whether or not the Dominion had problems with the Borg as well--never did see any assimilated Jem'hadr or Vorta in the Collective.

Eventually, Janeway and crew encounter living Borg, the first ones from a ship that suffered a mishap and the survivors having to cope with life after assimilation fighting each other. Then comes "Scorpion", where Voyager encounters the Collective for the first time and witnesses its next conquest with the Borg going after Species 8472 and that things were not going so well for the Collective. Once again, Janeway tries to strike up another alliance with one of the Delta Quadrant baddies (first time with the Traib in Season 2) and tries to align herself with the Borg--bad mistake.

On the lighter side, there is the episode commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Star Trek, when Tuvok has his flashbacks of his first Starfleet assignment on board the USS Excelsior, commanded by Hikaru Sulu and their activities surrounding the first Kittimer Conference. One other thing to note about this episode is that they also bring back Commander Kang as one of Sulu's favorite nemeses. After that, he only shows up in DS9 as an old man.

Star Trek: Voyager's third season began to see change, vital to saving the show. Season Three started to tell more complex, exciting, and epic-style stories. Moving away from the slowly evolving plot involving the Kazons was the producer's best decision, and allowed for a very appreciated change of pace. If it weren't for the more exciting and epic-style episodes that began in this season, Voyager would not have survived to its seventh season.

The only thing saving Voyager until this time was its overall plot, which attracted fans of similar "The Next Generation" and the original series, and the fact that it wasn't syndicated like Deep Space Nine.

Voyager's season finale, "Scorpion", is the biggest Star Trek cliffhanger since TNG's "Best of Both Worlds" and was voted Voyager's best episode in a 1999 Startrek.com poll.

Voyager really takes flight with shows like "Unity" and "Real Life", although Season Three had several stand-out episodes prior to them.

Season Three starts out with the conclusion to Season Two's cliffhanger "Basics". It's a satisfying ending for the conflict between the Kazon, although it should have ended far earlier than this.

Voyager's anniversary episode called "Flashback" didn't hold a candle compared to DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations" however still had some good moments. The fact that the original cast from "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" guest starred was wonderful, but for Star Trek's 30th anniversary episode, it could have stood out more.

Season Three has a Ferengi episode ("False Profits"), which is always fun. The Ferengi only return once more in the season, and not until Season Seven. But it makes sense based on Voyager's plot.

Voyager's first mid-season 2-part episode aired in Season Three. The time-traveling episode "Future's End" finally gives The Doctor mobility. This episode is suppose to tie into the Season Five episode "Relativity" however the connection between the episodes isn't very clear. If you watch both episodes closely, you'll know what I mean.

The drastic attempt to keep Kes's character interesting is very apparent, not only in her appearance, but also personality. Starting with "Warlord" Kes suddenly seems to mature overnight from a youn naive girl to a mature woman. Kes also breaks up with Neelix in "Warlord".

Q returns for the second of three visits to Voyager in "Q and the Grey". This is Q's best episode for Voyager.

The Borg make their first Voyager appearance at the end of "Blood Fever" although it is only a dead corpse. This is a foreshadow of what's to come. The Borg also return in "Unity" and of course the explosive season finale "Scorpion".

Martha Hackett returns as Seska in "Worst Case Scenario". But wait, didn't Seska die in "Basics"? Ok, this is actually a holographic Seska that she created to torture Tuvok. This episode is full of action and wonderfully written. The scene where Paris and Tuvok go to the holographic sickbay and get tortured by The Doctor is hilarious.

Season Three had an explosive Season Finale called "Scorpion, Part I" where Voyager finally enters Borg space, but they now they face an enemy even more dangerous and destructive. It has tons of action and awesome visual effects.

WORST OF SEASON THREE: "Remember", "Warlord", "Alter Ego", "Darkling", "Favorite Son", and "Before and After".

The Second Season of Star Trek Voyager was very, and I mean very good. Season Three built another floor on the top of that foundation with some great great stories. First, this season resolves the Basics cliffhanger just as it should have been. In this season we take another "Flashback" to the Original Series. Going deeper into the story of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in this episode we see what was happening on the USS Excelsior while James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy were imprisoned on Rura Penthe. George Takei reprises his role as Captain Sulu. Contained in this season is one of the best two part episodes of the entire series. It would have worked as a great cliffhanger, but, luckily we only had to wait a week for the second part to air after the first instead of three months! This season goes deeper into the characters' personal lives. There is an episode in this season that connects directly to a two-part episode in the Fourth Season involving a species called the Krenim. This episode is called "Before and After" This season also has possibly the best Star Trek cliffhanger since "The Best of Both Worlds"! We're almost there, but not Seven of Nine, yet.

Best Episodes:

Basics: Part II, Flashback, The Chute, The Swarm, Future's End: Parts I and II, Fair Trade, Unity, Before and After, Real Life, Worst Case Scenario, Scorpion: Part I

Season 3 was the year Voyager took its journey with a new attitude. The traitors were gone, the crew was united, the Kazon were old news and with Neelix's help dwindling, the ship was entering a true unknown. Some highlights were Basics Part II, Future's End, Before And After, Distant Origin, the return of the Borg in Unity, the emotional Real Life, and ending off with undoubtly the best episode of the series (and in my opinion, of Star Trek), Scorpion. Kes' last year was good for her as she travelled through time and fought alien take overs. Q makes a return in a Q civil war and a "proposal" for Janeway. Future's End is a great time travel episode putting humor around every corner. Each character has an episode to shine in, including the captain who faces the greatest enemy of all, death, in the episode Coda.

Season 3 is a great transition from the Kazon/Struggling arc to the Seven Of Nine/Borg/Knowing How To Survive Arcs of the later seasons. If anything, it is just too much fun to watch Torres and Ayala divert the caveman in Basics, Part II because they are great runners. This is a must buy for Voyager and Star Trek fans! I would buy this even if there were no special features.

The first two seasons of Voyager left a bad taste in the mouths of many, including myself. When the ship is escaping through a hole in a gravity well, or being threatened by Neelix's cooking, you know the writers are totally sapped of ideas. But Season 3 changed all that. It was one cool, clever, riveting, well-plotted episode after another. It was when I really started to pay attention to the show. And come "Scorpion," we finally ditched those lame Kazon and Vidiians for some REAL bad guys, the coolest bad guys ever to grace our TV sets... the Borg. For Borg fanatics like myself, who seek efficiency and perfection on a daily basis and strive to remove emotions from our decision-making processes, and wish we had Borg alcoves in our bedrooms, Scorpion was a godsend that ushered in a whole new era of Trek awesomeness. True, we would have to wait until Season 4 (when only every 5th episode wasn't about the Borg) to truly reap the benefits of this godsend, but still, there's something to be said for watching a taped copy of "Scorpion" Part I over and over for 3 months in anticipation of Part II.

So, aside from the Borg, Season 3 had a lot of really friggin' cool episodes. There was the one with Sulu, the one where the crew goes back in time to 1996, the one with the Ferengi, the one where Kes gets the Extreme Makeover... come to think of it, all of the show's most awesome Borgless episodes were from Season 3.

There are those who say this was Voyager's last good season, and those who say this was Voyager's first good season. What both groups agree on is that this is a really good season.