Star Trek: Voyager: Difference between revisions

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That said, ''Voyager'' was notable for taking on stories and subjects that even its very daring sister series, ''Deep Space Nine'', didn't touch -- the crew encountered a Starfleet vessel that was willing to totally discard its Federation principles for the sake of getting home, faced the Borg on their home turf, and even tackled the moral and ethical implications of assisting in a suicide.

''Voyager'' is known throughout ''Trek'' fandom as a series that featured an episode so ''incredibly'' sub-par that both the fans ''and the producers'' unofficially struck it from canon after it aired (unless you count an offhand comment in a later episode...which ''[[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~|officially]]'' strikes it from canon).

''Voyager'' is known throughout ''Trek'' fandom as a series that featured an episode so ''incredibly'' sub-par that both the fans ''and the producers'' unofficially struck it from canon after it aired (unless you count an offhand comment in a later episode...which ''[[Canon Discontinuity|officially]]'' strikes it from canon).

However, ''Voyager'' is also widely considered to have the most beautiful and evocative [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9FU8bmxQs theme music] the franchise has ever produced (albeit not the most ''iconic''; that honor goes to TOS and TNG). It has been said that ''Voyager'''s theme is the music to what the show ''should'' have been.

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* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Janeway's willingness to risk everything to save Seven of Nine was to prove [[Les Yay|fertile ground]] for J/7 [[Slash Fic]] writers.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: In the early episodes, the Doctor couldn't shut off his own program. This annoyed him when people would just leave the room without deactivating him. In one instance, he specifically requests that, should the crew choose to abandon the ship for any reason, they take the time to shut him off before they leave. If they didn't, he'd be stuck in Sickbay until power failed, completely alone.

* [[Another ~~Mans~~ Terror]]: Paris has this forced upon him in "Ex Post Facto".

* [[Another Man's Terror]]: Paris has this forced upon him in "Ex Post Facto".

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Painfully averted by Lt. [[Fan Nickname|"Extra-Man"]] Ayala. Ayala appears in 120 episodes out of 167, in all seven seasons. He speaks in exactly four of those episodes, and is only credited twice, never with a name. The mere act of establishing a name for the actor took some detective work. He's achieved a certain amount of [[Memetic Badass]] status among the fandom for simply managing to survive all seven seasons.

* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] by the Doctor in "Message in a Bottle", when he needs to tell the computer to execute an attack and 'Attack Pattern Alpha' is the only attack pattern he can think of. (Luckily for him, it does turn out to be a real attack pattern.)

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* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: The Doctor does this in "Life-Line" to his creator. Doctor Zimmerman constantly belittles him and dismisses his program as a failed experiment, eventually getting furious and demanding to know ''why'' the Doctor is trying to treat his terminal illness. The Doctor furiously counters back that ''he'' designed him that way and whether he likes it or not, he is ''a Doctor'' and he ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|will]]'' treat him.

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) sang on the show a couple of times. One episode even featured a duel with the Doctor and Seven singing a duet, in harmony.

* [[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~]]: The producers have stated that "Threshold" isn't canon...

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: The producers have stated that "Threshold" isn't canon...

** [[Discontinuity Nod]]: ...and later on Paris notes that he's never traveled in transwarp. To explicitly say in the show that it isn't considered canon.

** "Deuterium? You can get that anywhere!" is mentioned in one episode, seasons after the "running out of deuterium" stuff.