Star Trek: Voyager

The Raven

Episode 19

Friday 11 March 2022

A raven, its wings outstretched, flies towards us  along a corridor in a ruined spaceship.

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Series 4, Episode 6

Stardate: Unknown (2374)

First broadcast on Wednesday 8 October 1997

In this week’s meeting of the Jeri Ryan Appreciation Society, we watch the most aggressively average Star Trek episode the Randomiser can find, only to discover that there’s still a lot of fun to be had — hilariously sluggish action scenes, a shockingly low-effort Intransigent Alien Race, and some wonderfully subtle and nuanced performances from Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ and Jeri Ryan.

Duration: 1:01:43 · Recorded on Thursday 10 March 2022 · Download · Open in new window

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The Killing Game / The Killing Game, Part II

Episode 21

Friday 25 March 2022

Seven of Nine, wearing lipstick, a silver dress and her hair down, talks into a microphone. Behind her there is a pianist with his back to us.

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Series 4, Episodes 18–19

Stardate: 51715.2

First broadcast on Wednesday 4 March 1998

It’s business as usual on Star Trek this week, as the crew of Voyager find themselves in an episode of Secret Army which has been cast, written and directed by latex-headed aliens in Nazi uniforms. Will Voyager’s extensive back catalogue of holodeck programs persuade the Hirogen that there’s more to life than festooning your bulkheads with human skulls? Or will the Captain be forced (reluctantly) to kill Seven of Nine first?

Duration: 1:47:10 · Recorded on Saturday 19 March 2022 · Download · Open in new window

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Counterpoint

Episode 34

Friday 24 June 2022

Captain Janeway is sitting next to Inspector Kashyk, a handsome man in a tight short-sleeved shirt. She is looking into his eyes and touching his upper arm.

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Series 5, Episode 10

Stardate: Unknown (2375)

First broadcast on Wednesday 16 December 1998

This week: a clever script, a complete absence of banter, a frog alien that scores zero on the B’omar Scale, astonishingly good incidental music by Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and two outstanding performances from Mark Harelik and Kate Mulgrew — all working together perfectly to create one of Voyager’s Best Episodes Ever. Enjoy. (You will.)

Duration: 1:06:58 · Recorded on Tuesday 14 June 2022 · Download · Open in new window

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Course: Oblivion

Episode 106

Friday 19 April 2024

Kate Mulgrew valiantly tries to act after some dipshit has covered her face in a horrific latex crust.

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Series 5, Episode 18

Stardate: 52586.3

First broadcast on Wednesday 3 March 1999

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

This week, like every week, we continue to experience our gradual, humiliating dissolution, to dread our own inevitable deaths, and to consider with dismay the deaths of everyone we have ever known or loved. And so, to cheer ourselves up, we decide to watch an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Duration: 1:10:12 · Recorded on Tuesday 2 April 2024 · Download · Open in new window

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Equinox / Equinox, Part II

Episode 83

Friday 29 September 2023

Harry is standing at his station on the Voyager Bridge. He is facing a small, airborne, lizard-like creature which is baring its teeth at him.  He is pointing a phaser at the creature and looking like an actor unsure of where his line of sight should be.

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Series 5, Episode 26 / Series 6, Episode 1

Stardate: Unknown (2375, 2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday 26 May 1999

Moral dilemmas abound in this week’s season finale of Star Trek: Voyager. Is it permissible to kill a bunch of people if you miss your bus home? Is it permissible to shoot Slimer from Ghostbusters in the face if he’s intent on drinking all of your precious bodily fluids? Is it permissible to torture Rick Worthy if you’re having a really bad day? And it is obligatory to endow the characters in your Star Trek show with clear and consistent motivations?

Duration: 2:07:04 · Recorded on Tuesday 26 September 2023 · Download · Open in new window

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Barge of the Dead

Episode 109

Friday 10 May 2024

Under a sky full of red clouds, B'Elanna is standing on board a ship, looking out. The ship is old, made of wood, and its figurehead is a bronze griffin.

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Series 6, Episode 3

Stardate: Unknown (2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday 6 October 1999

A quick trip to the afterlife this week, as B’Elanna discovers the importance of faith and family, and as Voyager itself discovers (too late, perhaps) the importance of the same things. We also learn that hell is the Voyager sets only lit slightly differently, which is something that we had hitherto only suspected.

Duration: 1:04:14 · Recorded on Tuesday 23 April 2024 · Download · Open in new window

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Collective

Episode 78

Friday 25 August 2023

Seven is standing in the corridor of a Borg cube. She looks angry. Behind her, Harry is slumped unconscious. And next to her are three preteen Borg children: two twin boys and a little girl with long hair.

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Series 6, Episode 16

Stardate: Unknown (2376)

First broadcast on Wednesday 16 February 2000

This week a mediocre script fails to be enhanced in any way by mediocre direction and some mediocre performances. But there’s an upside: a Voyager episode with real consequences that will open up unimaginable new vistas of storytelling and character development. Or not, probably.

Duration: 1:04:14 · Recorded on Tuesday 22 August 2023 · Download · Open in new window

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Muse

Episode 87

Friday 3 November 2023

We're in a small ancient stone theatre. A small audience is watching a scene in which B'Elanna Torres, wearing a traveller's cloak is looking at a  beautiful young man in a white robe, who is begging her to stay.

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Series 6, Episode 22

Stardate: 53918

First broadcast on Wednesday 26 April 2000

These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them. And as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth, where peace reigns and hatred has no home.

Enjoyable. And unexpectedly beautiful at times. Much like Star Trek, really.

Duration: 1:03:56 · Recorded on Tuesday 31 October 2023 · Download · Open in new window

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Lineage

Episode 3

Friday 19 November 2021

B’Elanna on the holodeck looking at her horrific CGI baby.

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Series 7, Episode 12

Stardate: 54452.6

First broadcast on Wednesday 24 January 2001

It’s our first trip to the Delta Quadrant, and we have questions that need answering. Is B’Elanna’s father a massive racist or just a regular-sized racist? Which is more convincing: Tom and B’Elanna’s baby or an 8472 in a well-lit room? And can we maintain focus all the way through a 45-minute episode of Voyager without a single space anomaly?

Duration: 0:54:20 · Recorded on Wednesday 6 October 2021 · Download · Open in new window

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The Void

Episode 117

Friday 5 July 2024

In the Transporter Bay, Janeway is grinning at this week’s Nice Alien  Who Would Look Quite Attractive If Not For All the Latex, while  the medium Robert and a surprisingly helpful Malon look on gormlessly.  It’s all a bit embarrassing.

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Series 7, Episode 15

Stardate: 54553.4

First broadcast on Wednesday 14 February 2001

This week we drop into a parallel universe where Voyager’s situation is desperate, resources are constrained, and the crew has no alternative but to live by its principles — helping, making friends, reaching out, forming alliances, working together to solve problems, seeking out new life and new civilisations, that sort of thing. Turns out, it would have made quite a good premise for a Star Trek series.

Duration: 0:58:45 · Recorded on Wednesday 26 June 2024 · Download · Open in new window

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