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Season Six of Star Treak voyager remains one of the most popular and has some very nice episodes.

Synopses

Equinox part II
Janeway contacs the keepers of the mysterious aliens that have been attacking them and is able to convince them to stop attacking if both crewsare willing to stop but the equinox crew is un willing

Survival Instinct
A guest aboard Voyager offrs to sell Seven some items that were previously part of her Borg ship.

Barge of the Dead
A Klingon artifact is discovered in the Delta quadrant. Torres then has visions of herself on the barge of the dead on a journey to the Klingon equivelant of Hell.

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
When the doctor creares a ew program allowing him to 'dream,' the crew of an alien ship hiding nearby that is spying on them through the doctor think that the doctor's dreams are what is actually happening on the ship.

Alice
Tom Paris discovers a junked shuttle being sold by the keeper of a ship junkyard. The ship has an interface which allows the user to control the ship though their thoughts. Unfortuantely the shuttle has a mind of it's own.

Riddles
After Tuvok suffers brain damage and loses his memory, Neelix tries to help him regain it.

Dragon's Teeth
After being atacked by an alien ship. Voyager makes an emergency landing on a nearby planet after discovering a decimated city on the surface. Scans indicate it happened 500 years earlier. They discover faint life signs coming from below the surface and find a stasis chamber.

One Small Step
After finding a mysterious anomolay, Janeway is remined of a similar one which took out a Mars mission ship about 350 years earlier. Investigation revelas that the ship is inside the anomaly

The Voyager Conspiracy
The crew encounter an alien working on a catapult ship which can take years off Voyager's journey, Seven reveals to Janeway that the technology is the same as the technology which put Voyager in the Delta Quadrant in the first place. Seven suspects a conspiracy.

Pathfinder
On Earth Lieutenant Barclay has become obsessed with finding a way to make contact with Voyager

Fair Haven
The crew of Voyager create a new holodeck program that is based on an early 20 th century Irish village and some of them want it to be running at all hours to take their minds of the threat of a hurricane like space phenomenon which is approaching.

Blink of an Eye
The crew discover a planet that is rotating VERY rapidly and find out that a time distortion is causing it and that for every second on Voyager, a day occurs on the planet the distortions are trapping the ship in orbit.
Virtuoso
The Doctor's singing becomes very popular with a group visiting Voyager and want the doctor to live on their planet.

Memorial
Some of the crew begin to experience visions later determined to be supressed memories. These memories implicate them in an autrocity
that killed several dozen innocent civillians

Tsunkatse
Seven is kidnapped and forced to participate in gladiator like combat. This episode has a special appearance by Dwayne "The Rock Johnson

Collective
Voyager encounters a disabled Borg vessel and there are several assimilated children on board.

Spirit Folk
Glitches in the holodeck program enable the characters to notice the crew changing things in the program and the chrarcters
accuse them of sorcery

Ashes to Ashes
An alien hails Voyager, claiming to be a former crewmember who died three years earlier. The doctor later finds traces of human DNA in her.

Child's Play
When one of the ex-Borg children is reunited with his parents it is revelaed that they may have used him as bait to lure
the Borg away from their home planet.

Good Shepard
When Janeway takes some underperforming crewmen on an away mission, an anomoly disables the Delta flyer and strands them.

Live Fast and Prosper
Voyager's crew is accused of being scam artists and they discover that someone has been impersonating Janeway and Tuvok.

Muse
While stranded on a planet, Torres tells one of the inhabitants stories about her experience on Voyager in exchange for help getting
back to the ship.

Fury
Kes returns in a murderous rampage goes back in time and repalces her younger self on Voyager bent on stopping
Voyager from keeping her.However Tuvok suspects something is wrong.

Life Line
Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the scientist who treated the doctor's program is dying and the doctor offers to help.

The Haunting of Deck Twelve
During a mission that necessitates shutting down many of the ship's systems, Neelix tells the borg children a ghost story.

Unimatrix Zero part I
Seven has a recurring dream and discovers that they are telepathic communications from some
Borg who are experiencing individuality during their regeneration and are in danger of being found out.

Continues with Unimatrix Zero part II in the 7th and final season.

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More than any other Trek series, Voyager had a steady improvement in quality as it moved in to it's later season, particularly after season 4. Season Six is truly excellent, some of the best of Voyager. The season picks up where the previous left off, with the conclusion to the much underrated Equinox, which really tests the crew's devotion to principle, as the actions of a renegade Starfleet crew result in Voyager being the victim of attack by extra-dimensional entities.

Barge of the Dead is a quirky look at the Klingon afterlife, and while not being remarkable, it's still a worthwhile episode.

Tenker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy is one of the highlights of the season, as hostile aliens tap in to the Doctors daydreams, where he is the most intelligent, important, and all around greatest crew member. Easily one of the funniest Trek episodes ever.

Alice gives us Tom Paris obsessing over an old shuttle, much in the way modern day car guys do with cars.

Dragons Teeth give us a memorable species, the Vaadwaur, who had been in cryogenic suspension for 1000 years.

the Voyager Conspiracy is an episode of paranoia and second guessing, as Seven thinks that the rpesence of Voyager in the Delta Quadrant is no accident.

Pathfinder features guest appearances by Lt. Barclay and Counselor Troi, who become involved in a project to try and establish contact with Voyager via a radical application of subspace radio.

Fair Haven gives us the memorable holodeck town of the same name, a 19th century Irish town where the crew can unwind amidst absurd situations.

Blink of an Eye has been called one of the most fascinating episodes in Trek history, and that is no understatement. Voyager becomes trapped in orbit of a planet where time moves faster than the rest of the galaxy, and as a result, their society becomes centered around the "sky ship", which they marvel over for thousands of years.

Virtuoso is another great Doctor episode, in which he becomes a superstar of a society that has no concept of music.

Collective features the Voager crew adopting a group of Borg children, abandoned by the collective.

Good Shepherd is Voyagers' "Lower Decks", the famous TNG episode which examined the life of junior officers on the Enterprise. Captain JAneway takes a group of udneracheivers on a Delta Flyer mission where they encounter an unusual alien entity.

Live Fast and Prosper is another great comedic episode, in which a small group of con artists masquerade as the Voyager crew in order to pursue illicit transactions.

Muse involves B'ellana crashing on an M Class world inhabited by a humanoid species who have a society similar to ancient Greece, and B'ellana is mistaken for a goddess by a poet, who sees her as a muse.

Life Line is yet another Doctor episode, and features Barclay and Deanna once more, as well as the designer of the Doctors holomatrix, who is dying of a degenerative illness.

Season 6 seemed to be the dénoument to this series. It was consistently good overall. My favorite episode had to "Dragon's Teeth" where Janeway and crew discover these old transwarp conduits that could get them home faster only to discover that there are hostile forces claiming these conduits and if Voyager does not leave and forget these, they would destroy the ship. Instead, Janeway tests their mettle and her ship winds up taking some damage and the crew winds up taking refuge on a planet whose people built these conduits and used them to control this part of the galaxy with an iron fist until the peoples they conquered rose up and destroyed them. Down underneath the planet's surface, Janeway and crew find some of the survivors of that race only to find that these guys are worse than the pirates they were hiding from. Once again, Janeway's gotta make a choice, either deal with the baddies from below or the pirates from above. Eventually, the baddies and the pirates wind up fighting each other instead of pursuing Voyager.

For added humor, there "Tinker, Tenor, Soldier, Spy" where the doctor enables a dream program and a plucky bureaucrat from an alien ship tries to use these dreams to control the doctor--only to find out that what he was seeing was the doctor's dreams. It's almost as funny as the episode where the doctor becomes a musical sensation or when he hides out in 7 of 9's cortical implants and winds up taking over her body and personality. Sometimes he provided the necessary levity where everything else seemed grim for Voyager.

"Muse" is also another good episode as well, as Torres and Kim are stranded on a planet when their shuttle crashes. Torres is befriended by a playwright who basically uses her stories--the stories about Voyager--to write new plays where we see these people re-enact the journey from the time that the Caretaker removed both Voyager and the Macquis ship from the Badlands to the Delta Quadrant.

The season begain with "Equinox" where Voyager encounters another starfleet ship brought into the Delta Quadrant. Once again, the crew is tempted to use what that ship is using for power to get home with, but once it is discovered that the captain of that ship is killing off a race of creatures and using their bodies for the power, this leaves Janeway and crew distressed, especially when these creatures attack Voyager with the intent to destroy it for what Equinox is doing.

Then there is "Child's Play" where we discover the back story behind Ichib, one of the Borg Children rescued from a failing cube. Turns out his family genetically engineered him to infect the Collective and destroy the Borg ships from the inside. After Janeway returns him to his family, his father sends him off again to infect another Borg ship and Janeway must rescue him again and make him a member of the Voyager crew.

Of course one must also discuss "Pathfinder" and the mission that both Barclay and Admiral Paris undertake to establish communications with Janeway and crew in the Delta Quadrant. Especially now that the admiral wants to contact his son.

Overall, this season was a typical Voyager season--beginning with a cliffhanger where Voyager was facing destruction in the Delta Quadrant at the hands of someone else, only to end in another cliffhanger where Janeway and crew need to improvise again to figure out a way to survive the Delta Quadrant.

If character development is what fans thought was lacking in this series Season Six proves that VOYAGER had the mettle to prove itself. As the crews come closer to returning home, Captain Janeway and company find themselves facing some of the Delta Quadrants most interesting adversaries and facing their own inner demons, as explored in the stand-out episodes like the BARGE OF THE DEAD and FAIR HAVEN. The future of humankinds fate in space exploration is also visited in the episode ONE SMALL STEP. All in preparation for the series upcoming finale...

Less than one year following the concluding season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, executive producer/writer Rick Berman, along with Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor, created a fourth television series based upon the "Star Trek" universe originally created by Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) in the 1960's. This fourth television series, entitled "Voyager" (which is the name of the Federation of Planets starship used in the series), first aired in January 1995, and ran for seven seasons until it concluded in May 2001. Because "Voyager" aired initially in the month of January (instead of the traditional September), only 16 episodes were filmed for the first season. The succeeding six other seasons had 26 episodes each, for a grand total of 172 episodes for the entire series.

Unlike the previous three "Star Trek" television series, which (for the most part) took place within the bounds of the Federation of Planets (or in nearby sovereign areas of space, such as the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Empire) in the Alpha Quadrant, the starship Voyager is hurled tens of thousands of light-years from home into the previously unknown and unexplored Delta Quadrant, which is located at the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even while traveling at warp 8 (the fastest safe speed that a typical starship can travel), it would take Voyager several decades to return to Earth. Hence, the series focuses on the survival of Voyager's Starfleet crew, who are completely isolated and unable to even maintain normal communications with Earth, as well as the crew's ultimate desire to find a way home faster than their ship is capable of doing. Also, along the way, Voyager adopts a few Delta Quadrant natives.

The primary cast members of the sixth season of "Voyager" include Captain Catherine Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran), the half-Klingon Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), Ensign Thomas Eugene Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), Delta Quadrant native (Talaxian) Neelix (Ethan Phillips), the holographic Emergency Medical Holographic Program (a.k.a., "The Doctor", played by Robert Picardo), the Vulcan Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok (Tim Russ), Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and the former Borg drone Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Voyager's sixth season begins with the episode "Equinox, Part 2". In this continuation of the fifth-season cliff-hanger final episode, Capt. Janeway finds a way to protect Voyager from the attacks of nucleogenic life forms that are fighting back at Captain Ransom (John Savage) who has been slaughtering them for use in improving his equally marooned Starfleet ship, the Equinox. Of course, once Janeway understands what Ransom and his crew have been doing, she does all that she can to stop them.

During the sixth season of "Voyager", Seven of Nine faces her past in episode "Survival Instinct", B'Elanna's ongoing struggle with her Klingon half is brought to the forefront in episode "Barge of the Dead", Tuvok suffers from neurological damage in episode "Riddles", Janeway & Voyager discover awakens an ancient race in episode "Dragon's Teeth", Chakotay gets excited over the discovery of a long-lost Martian probe in episode "One Small Step", Voyager is contacted by Starfleet thanks to Lt. Barclay in episode "Pathfinder", Borg children are discovered in episode "Collective", former Voyager crewmember Kes (Jennifer Lien) unexpectedly visits in episode "Fury" and Capt. Janeway with Seven of Nine again battle the Borg Queen (Susanna Thompson) in first of the two-part episode "Unimatrix Zero". The best sixth-season episodes, in order of airdate, include "Survival Instinct", "Barge of the Dead", "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", "Riddles", "Dragon's Teeth", "One Small Step" (possibly the best sixth-season episode), "Pathfinder", "Fair Haven", "Blink of an Eye" (the planet in accelerated time, a very good episode), "Virtuoso" (reality-check for the Doctor), "Memorial", "Collective", "Spirit Folk", "Child's Play", "Muse", "Fury", "Life Line" and the season finale "Unimatrix Zero, Part 1". The least memorable sixth-season episodes include "Equinox, Part 2", "Alice", "Tsunkatse", "Good Shepherd", "Live Fast and Prosper" and "The Haunting of Deck Twelve".

Overall, I rate the sixth season of "Voyager" with 4 out of 5 stars. It was somewhat weaker than the fifth season, but did have several shining moments.

As I work my way through these "Voyager" boxed sets, more and more I'm kicking myself for not watching these programs when they originally aired (due to foolishly buying into a lot of the anti-Voyager hype at the time, as well as a hatred for commercial interruptions). In any event, I'm seeing these shows now, and the ones that make up season six are particularly good. The season is ripe with solid, character-based adventures, ambitious effects, and even a generous look at the larger Star Trek universe beyond the isolated Delta Quadrant. Without diluting the integrity of the show's premise, we get to see fan favorite characters like The Next Generation's Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) and Dwight Schultz (Reginald Barclay). It's clever how the program pulls off these guest appearances while solidly keeping Voyager stranded light years away across the galaxy, but you'll have to watch the actual shows to see how it's done. As always, generous extra features provide a nice cap to this entertaining batch of episodes. I'm kind of sorry there's only one more season to go before it's all over.

We have watched all the years up to this one, and have found this one to be just as good, if not better than the previous years. Good stuff. Can't beat it for family entertainment.

I can't say enough about how much I LOVE this!! I have purchased, through various retailers, the entire Star Trek Voyager series, one season at a time. (Who among us can afford to buy the complete series all at once? LOL) Anyhoo, when I found this on Amazon at that price---well, I just about fell out! Never, ever, have I seen any of these sets for that price! And then, to "sweeten the pot" as they say, it was free shipping too!! Now, I did have one slight problem with this purchase, and that was the case was cracked at the top, and some pieces of it fell out when I opened it up. That being said, I can deal with it--the discs were all great, no problems. And I have bought another season of Voyager from Amazon, and it also came with a cracked case. So, a little more bubble wrap and it's all good!!

Star Trek: Voyager is a sort of whipping boy among Star Trek fans. (At least it was until the much beleagered and underappreciated Star Trek: Enterprise came along). Granted, even the creators of the series admitted the plot flaw of the entire series--"Why didn't the crew of Voyager simply set a course for the Alpha Quadrant and put themselves in suspended animation until they got back?"

Given this, the series has been uneven up to this point. But the series sixth season may very well be the one where the series fires on all thrusters.

It begins with a satisfying conclusion to the fifth season cliff hanger and continues by showing the relationships between the characters (a hallmark of the original Star Trek series) growing deeper and more nuanced as the series progresses. It continues to humanize Captain Kathryn Janeway helping her take her rightful place among the Captains of the other Star Trek series. Janeway is no Kirk or Picard, and she doesn't have to be. In the past she seemed rather cold and aloof, but by the time the sixth season came along I grew to appreciate her and even like her.

Humor, which has always been a part of Star Trek, is used to great effect in this season especially in the character of the Doctor. He may be just an Emergency Medical Hologram, but he's the best thing to happen to a starship sickbay since Dr. McCoy.

In the past I only tolerated Voyager (I even liked Enterprise better than Voyager--I can't understand why so many fans rejected what is, in my opinion, the show that best captures the spirit of the original series, but that's another story). But with the sixth season I became a fan of Voyager.

I THINK THIS IS THE BEST IN THE STAR TREK ADVENTURES IN SPACE.JANWAY AND CREW IS ON THE TOP OF THEIR GAME.