Product Description
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All 26 episodes from Season 3 of the third 'Star Trek' spin-off.
The opening episode, 'Basics (Part 2)' concludes the story from
the end of the last season that saw the Voyager crew stranded on
a planet while the Kazon ran off with the ship. 'Flashback' a
celebration of 30 years of Star Trek, features Tuvok mind-melding
with Janeway and revealing his service on board the Excelsior
under Captain Hikaru Sulu from the original series. In 'The
Chute' Tom and Harry find themselves wrongly accused of terrorism
after a brain im overpowers their reason. In 'The Swarm' the
Doctor's memory circuits are overloaded, and he might have to
lose all the knowledge gained over the last two years. In 'False
Profits' the crew of the Voyager come across a briefly appearing
wormhole near a planet that is giving off signals from Alpha
Quadrant technology. In 'Remember' Torres experiences some vivid
and dreams that become more and more troubled. In 'Sacred
Ground' Kes wanders onto a sacred site during a visit to a local
planet, and is knocked cold by a protective force-field. In
'Future's End (Part 1)', the Voyager finds itself under attack
from Federation time-ship Aeon. In 'Future's End (Part 2)', the
crew of Voyager must stop the megalomaniac entrepreneur Starling
from using the Federation Time Ship Aeon in the 21st Century. In
'Warlord' Kes finds her body taken over by a malevolent and
powerful warlord who plans one final manouevre in an ongoing war
with his neighbours. In 'The Q and the Grey' Captain Janeway is
in for a shock when Q returns and proposes marriage - but his
reasons are not entirely ruled by his heart. In 'Macrocosm'
Janeway and Neelix return to the ship only to find that a virus
has taken over and assumed a physical form. In 'Fair Trade' the
Voyager stops at a trading station on the edge of some notorious
space and Neelix meets up with an old friend in need of help. In
'Alter Ego' Harry approaches Tuvok with an unusual problem - he
has fallen in love with a holodeck character. In 'Coda' Janeway
finds herself in a time-loop with ever more terrifying
consequences. In 'Blood Fever' a young Vulcan Ensign, Vorik,
experiences overpowering desires to mate with Torres. In 'Unity'
Chakotay is attacked while on an away mission, and when he
awakens he finds that his rescuers are not all they seem. In 'The
Darkling' the holographic doctor tries to improve his
personality, but his methods bring about the creation of an evil
monster. In 'Rise' Tuvok and Neelix become stranded on the
surface of a planet. As they struggle for survival, they realise
that someone in their group is a traitor. In 'Favourite Son'
Harry Kim blatantly disregards the captain's orders, opens fire
on a peaceful planet and declares that he is not human and must
return to his home. Kes finds herself living as a married, old
woman in 'Before and After'. She soon realises that she is
trapped in a temporal anomaly and is travelling backwards in
time. In 'Real Life', the Holographic Doctor creates a complete
holographic family so he can have a more fulfilling life. In
'Distant Origin', a scientist from a race of lizard-like
creatures is trying to prove that his race are descended from a
group of bipeds from a distant sector of the galaxy. In 'Worst
Case Scenario', Chakotay leads a Maquis rebellion on Voyager
leading to the kipping of all Starfleet officers and the
expulsion of Janeway from the ship. In 'Displaced', the crew of
Voyager are surprised when an unexpected alien guest arrives on
the ship and Kes disappears. In the chilling, cliff-hanging
season finale, 'Scorpion (Part 1)', Voyager realise that they
have to travel near Borg space on their route home. However, they
discover that Starfleet's lethal foes are fighting a losing
battle with a stronger enemy from another universe.
.co.uk Review
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After proving its long-term potential in season 2, Star Trek:
Voyager served up some of the best episodes in its entire
seven-year history. The second-season cliffhanger was
intelligently resolved in "Basics, Pt. II," and the fan-favorite
"Flashback" placed Tuvok (Tim Russ) aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior
from Star Trek VI, under the command of Capt. Sulu (Star Trek
alumnus George Takei). It was a brilliant example of interseries
plotting, just as "False Profits" was a Ferengi-based sequel to
the NextGen episode "The Price." The two-part time-travel
scenario of "Future's End" is a Voyager highlight, with clear
echoes (including dialogue lifted verbatim!) of Star Trek's
classic "The City on the Edge of Forever," featuring delightful
guest performances by actress-comedienne Sarah Silverman and Ed
Begley Jr. Character-wise, the season belonged to Kes (Jennifer
Lien, whose tenure on the series was now near its end), Neelix
(Ethan Phillips), and the Doctor (Robert Picardo), who shined
(respectively) in "Warlord," "Fair Trade," and the surprisingly
touching "Real Life" (the latter directed by "Potsie" himself,
Happy Days veteran Anson Williams). By infecting B'Elanna
(Roxanne Dawson) with a fellow officer's "Blood Fever," Voyager
delved into the turbulent Vulcan ritual of Pon Farr, while the
cliffhanger "Scorpion" introduced the relentless, Borg-destroying
villains of Species 8472, which would pose a continuing threat in
subsequent episodes.
Season 3 had a few clunkers (the guilty pleasure "Macrocosm"
puts Janeway in stripped-down "Ripley" mode against invading
macro-viruses, and Ensign Kim is an awkward "Favorite Son" to a
bevy of babes), but for every misstep there's a strong
science-fiction concept, like the highly-evolved Hadrosaurs in
"Distant Origin," which doubles as a compelling indictment of
institutionalized repression. Overall, this is rock-solid Trek,
and the DVD features are equally engaging, albeit growing more
perfunctory (especially the season 3 summary) with each
full-season release. Don't forget the Easter eggs hidden on the
special-features menus, however; they contain some of the set's
happiest surprises. --Jeff Shannon