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Faced with less-than-expected ratings due to less-than-stellar stories, “Star Trek: Voyager” needed to inject some excitement and life back into itself. The cast could only do so much with the material they were given, so a choice was made to let one character go in order to bring on another. Depending on who you talk to (though you could easily see how they could have axed Garrett Wang in Season 3’s cliffhanger), it was going to be Ensign Kim. Fortunately for the actor, he made a very important list, gained some popularity over the summer and another casualty came to be. When we last left our crew, they’d encountered one of the “Star Trek” franchise’s fallbacks; the Borg. In order to get safely through Borg space and wind up a wee bit closer to home, they must give these interstellar baddies some newly developed technology to fight an even more powerful enemy. Along the way, they begin to lose Kes (Jennifer Lien) due to her ever evolving mental abilities and gain a new member, Seven (Jeri Ryan). She’s a former Borg and a total hottie! She also gives Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) a run for her money by questioning almost every command decision…not to mention annoying the crew with her abrasive manner. Aside from our latest cast addition, there are some terrific episodes and character arcs this season! “Year of Hell” is a 2-parter not to be missed as Voyager is relentlessly pursued by a scientist intent on changing the galaxy back to its former past, Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) and Torres (Roxann Dawson) admit they’re in love, Kim (Wang) nearly finds out what it’s like to mate Borgy-style, Neelix (Ethan Phillips) discovers his faith after dying, the Hirogen stick around to hunt the crew, Chakotay (Robert Beltran) falls in love with a woman all over again after discovering he can’t remember the first time, Tuvok (Tim Russ) gets to investigate dome difficult cases and the Doctor (Robert Picardo) winds up briefly being sent back to the Alpha quadrant to defend a new prototype starship from Romulans, easily the most entertaining episode of the entire season. There is the occasional dry spell in this season with episodes that just don’t seem to fit. “Living Witness” is definitely a solid episode in itself and quite dramatic, so it’s a shame that it feels so out of place, since we know “Voyager” does make it home, thus this episode probably couldn’t take place. Okay, I’m reading too deeply into it. “The Killing Game” is fairly lame and “The Omega Directive” still comes off as confusing. Despite these lows, the majority of the season is solid, fun and thought provoking. It’s definitely a highlight in Voyager’s run. Paramount has released “Star Trek: Voyager (Season 4)” in its original Full Screen format. It’s a shame they didn’t start playing with Widescreen until “Enterprise” because this would have been a terrific series to showcase the format. In any case, video quality is crisp and audio matches. The episodes look and sound terrific. The season finale may not have been a cliffhanger, but it was a pretty good one to end on. Actually, I’m surprised the writers didn’t take full advantage of their newest character and give her something interesting to do that would leave everybody wondering how it ended. Jeri Ryan did her job by bringing some excitement to the show, but she also turned out to be a fine actress to boot. Yes, Voyager found a pulse again here and it’s come back strong. Overall Rating: A- 94.8% goodRead full review
Star Trek: Voyager has ALWAYS been my favourite series. I hope that they wil one day reunite for a nee Trek Movie. Worth the value, 10 fold!
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Always loved the show. Got this set, brand new, great price.
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Good product!
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The best Star Trek series. Fantastic story line and characters.
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