This is an episode list for the science-fictiontelevision seriesStar Trek: Voyager, which aired on UPN from January 1995 through May 2001. This is the fifth television program in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises a total of 168 (DVD and original broadcast) or 172 (syndicated) episodes over the show's seven seasons. Four episodes of Voyager ("Caretaker", "Dark Frontier", "Flesh and Blood", and "Endgame") each originally aired as two-hour presentations, and are considered whole episodes on the DVD release. Although "The Killing Game" aired as parts I and II back-to-back, they are treated as separate episodes on the DVD release.
The episodes are listed here in chronological order by original air date, which match the episode order in each season's DVD set. This list also includes the stardate on which the events of each episode took place. Of the ratings listed below, total viewership for the episode is listed for season 1; however, from season 2 the episode household ratings are listed.
While searching for a missing Maquis ship with a Starfleet spy aboard, USS Voyager is swept away to the Delta Quadrant, more than 70,000 light-years from home, by an incredibly powerful being known as the "Caretaker".
Originally shown as a two-hour pilot movie on the UPN network, but in syndication is shown as two separate episodes.
Investigating a planet just devastated by a polaric explosion, Janeway and Paris are engulfed by a subspace fracture and transported in time to before the accident.
The crew’s hopes are raised when a wormhole is detected as it may offer the chance of a return to the Alpha Quadrant. As her training as the Doctor’s new assistant continues, Kes is disturbed by the lack of respect that some crew members display towards him.
On a mission to the Banean home world, Tom Paris is found guilty of murder. Tuvok investigates and forms a hypothesis regarding what may have actually happened.
After an Away Team stumbles upon a burial ground, Harry Kim is discovered to be missing, having been kidnapped to the culture's homeworld.
If the Vhnoran Dr. Neria seems familiar, it is because actor Jerry Hardin played Samuel Clemens (i.e. Mark Twain) in the Star Trek: The Next Generation double episode ‘Time’s Arrow’.
Voyager encounters aliens from the planet Sikaris, a highly advanced race. They have a device that could potentially send Voyager home, but the Sikarans have a law – similar to the Federation’s Prime Directive - that does not allow them to share such advanced technology.
A shuttlecraft with Chakotay and Tuvok aboard is attacked; Chakotay is left brain-dead, while Tuvok begins acting strangely. An unknown force begins controlling crew members.
There are moments in this episode that are reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Thing. The non-corporeal alien entity ‘inhabits’ various members of the crew in order to advance its agenda, but neither the crew, nor the audience, know for sure who is being controlled.
A member of the Haakonians, a race warring with the Talaxians, arrives on Voyager, much to the dismay of Neelix, whose family was killed by a weapon of mass destruction this particular individual devised.
Tuvok trains several Maquis members who have not fully integrated with the Voyager crew.
Season 2 (1995–96)
The last four episodes that were originally supposed to be part of season 1 (episodes 1, 3, 4, & 6, with stardates 48xxx) were moved to season 2. "The 37's" was originally filmed as season 1's finale.
The Doctor becomes delusional after an accident, causing him to believe that he is a flesh-and-blood person and his time on USS Voyager is a holodeck program. This episode also features Reginald Barclay.
Space-dwelling life-forms cause Kes to enter the Ocampan fertile phase called Elogium, putting pressure on her relationship with Neelix when she wants to have his child.
Crewman Lon Suder murders an Engineering crewman for no apparent reason. Tuvokmind melds with him to ascertain his motive, but it causes Tuvok to become aggressive.
A highly advanced CardassianAI missile that had been reprogrammed by B'Elanna Torres is found in the Delta Quadrant, and its damaged programming could destroy Voyager and a planet.
Janeway and Chakotay must adapt to life quarantined on a planet after they contract an incurable disease. Meanwhile, the Voyager crew risk their lives to seek out a possible cure from the Vidiians.
Tuvok experiences brain-damaging flashbacks to his service on the USS Excelsior. He and the captain attempt to find the reason for the flashbacks, believed to be a suppressed memory, through a joint mindmeld.
Tom Paris and Harry Kim wrongfully accused, convicted and incarcerated in an unguarded Akritirian prison. Tom gets stabbed trying to protect Kim, leaving him to try to find an escape plan alone. Meanwhile, Voyager is trying to find a way to prove their innocence.
Voyager encounters a swarm of ships while trying to take a shortcut through a space belonging to a hostile species, while the Doctor begins to experience memory loss.
The crew encounters the Delta Quadrant terminus of the Barzan wormhole...and the two Ferengi from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Price" now posing as gods on a nearby planet.
Voyager answers a distress call from a mining colony about a viral outbreak that manages to sneak onto Voyager through the transporter, leaving only Janeway and the Doctor to stop it.
Vulcan crewmember Vorik passes on the Pon farr to B'Elanna. Meanwhile, seemingly uninhabited planet Sakari is explored. After ruins are discovered, and a few survivors are found underground by the crew, it becomes obvious that local culture was destroyed by invaders. Remains of one of the invaders are found and identified - they were Borg.
Chakotay answers a call for help on a planet and finds himself in the middle of a shoot-out between two groups of people. Meanwhile, the Voyager crew discovers an abandoned Borg ship.
A reptilian scientist trying to prove his heretical theories kidnaps Chakotay and draws the entire crew in conflict between his race's doctrine and the startling truth about its origin.
Janeway and Tuvok work with the Borg and meet Seven of Nine as they collaborate on developing a weapon against Species 8472 in exchange for safe passage through Borg space.
Kes' mental abilities develop to a point where they endanger Voyager while The Doctor and Janeway slowly help Seven of Nine cope with being severed from the Borg.
Voyager creates a new astrometrics lab, which maps a new course that brings them into contact with a Krenim temporal ship that can erase things from history.
A badly damaged Voyager hides in a nebula as a skeleton crew attempts repairs; meanwhile the Krenim commander proposes a compromise to Chakotay and Tom Paris.
Neelix dies in an attempt to sample proto-matter from a nebula. Seven of Nine helps resuscitate him using Borg nanoprobes, but Neelix, having no memory of an afterlife of any kind, experiences a spiritual crisis.
The crew becomes trapped in a shared nightmare generated by alien technology. Only Chakotay, through his Native American spiritual capabilities, can save them.
The Doctor's program is sent to an advanced Starfleet vessel via a vast ancient communications network, but he soon discovers that only he and the ship's own EMH remain to fight against Romulans who have taken over the ship and are attempting to return to Romulan space with it.
After experiencing unsettling hallucinations, Seven of Nine is hypnotized by the Doctor whose analysis reveals a trader might have extracted Borg technology from Seven without her consent.
The Hirogen implant devices into the crew making them believe they are characters within the holodecks being used for hunts, one of which is set in France during World War II.
An alien shuttle with a prototype propulsion system suddenly appears and requires assistance. Paris is restless and volunteers to help the pilot, Steth, repair the shuttle.
Seven of Nine is left alone on Voyager when a nebula's deadly radiation forces the rest of the crew to stay in stasis and the Doctor's holographic program is disrupted.
Paris and Neelix return from a mission with a passenger named Arturis who knows more than 4,000 languages. He manages to decode a message from Starfleet that could lead to a way home.
The Doctor's mobile emitter is damaged while beaming back from an away mission, merging with Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes and the DNA of a male Ensign to create a 29th century Borg.
When Voyager brings aboard an advanced piece of Borg technology from a salvaged Borg cube, Seven of Nine begins to take on the personalities of the people assimilated by the cube.
Janeway plans to steal a transwarp coil from a disabled Borg ship to shorten their journey home. Seven of Nine experiences memories of her past just before she and her parents are assimilated and plans to re-join the Borg collective. The Borg Queen tells Seven of Nine that she will leave her individuality intact so the Borg can study her memories and use her to help them assimilate humanity.
Lt. Torres and Lt. Paris get married; the crew discover they aren't who they think they are while trying to resolve why subspace radiation is causing them and Voyager to disintegrate. Reference to Season 4 episode "Demon"
The Doctor adds daydreaming to his program, imagining himself as the Emergency Command Hologram (ECH) aboard Voyager; but aliens, tapping into his perceptions to observe the crew, prepare an attack when they believe that what they are seeing in the daydreams is real.
After assimilating Voyager's data from the past six years, through an enhancement to her Borg implants, Seven of Nine suspects the ship did not arrive in the Delta Quadrant by accident.
Voyager is trapped in orbit about a planet with a spacetime differential such that, while its inhabitants live through years, Voyager experiences mere minutes.
Visiting aliens who have never before encountered music become fascinated with the Doctor's Opera singing, and ask him to leave Voyager and join their society.
Seven of Nine and Tuvok are kidnapped while on shore leave, and Seven is forced to fight in a gladiatorial contest to the death. (Guest stars include J.G. Hertzler, Jeffrey Combs and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Problems arise from running the holographic Irish village of Fair Haven non-stop, when a malfunction leads the holographic characters to become self-aware.
The family of Icheb, one of the Borg children, is found, but he is reluctant to rejoin them. Seven, too, is reluctant for him to leave the ship; and his parents are concealing the real reason for desiring his return.
Torres is stranded on a bronze-age planet after a crash in the Delta Flyer, where she helps a playwright adapt the story of Voyager to the stage. Also, Kim is missing in an escape pod.
The Doctor's creator, Lewis Zimmerman, is dying in the Alpha Quadrant from a disease similar to the Vidiian phage. The Doctor's compressed matrix is transferred to Zimmerman's lab on the Jupiter station, to assist Mr. Barclay and Counselor Troi in attempting to treat the illness.
The crew of Voyager enters the Delta Flyer in a sub-warp race, crewed by Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, and events conspire to encourage Tom to propose to her.
The Doctor's program is stolen and he is forced to work in an alien hospital, where he skillfully manipulates the system to provide ethical medical care.
A hologram of Reginald Barclay is sent to Voyager, supposedly to implement a dangerous plan to bring them home; but the hologram has been tampered with by some Ferengi, who are trying to steal valuable Borg nanoprobes from Seven of Nine.
During an emergency on a mission, The Doctor is forced to upload his program into Seven of Nine's Borg implants, allowing him to experience real sensations for the first time.
Story by : Bryan Fuller and Raf Green Teleplay by : Raf Green and Kenneth Biller
Voyager's hologram technology, which Janeway had previously donated to the Hirogen, has been modified to make the holographic "prey" more cunning, enabling the hologram characters to rebel against their new masters.
Voyager is fractured into several time periods by an accident, and only Chakotay is able to move between them, in the process meeting old friends and old foes from the previous six seasons.
Now married to Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres discovers she is pregnant. The Doctor tells her to expect a daughter; but B'Elanna's unresolved fear of the childhood traumas, which she suffered as a part-Klingon girl growing up among humans, makes her determined to remove her child's Klingon DNA.
Prisoners are brought onto Voyager from a damaged alien vessel, and the crew must deliver them to their destination – for execution. Seven's nanoprobes are used to help heal a prisoner.
Voyager encounters an ancient Klingon battlecruiser. The Klingons aboard it had set out long ago to find their savior, and they believe it to be Tom and B'Elanna's unborn child.
The Voyager crew is brainwashed into taking new jobs on an industrialized planet that has a severe labor shortage, leaving only Chakotay, Kim and Neelix (who were on an away mission) and the Doctor (who, in the absence of the crew, has become the Emergency Command Hologram) to save them.
The crew is sent on its first mission by Starfleet in nearly seven years: to find a lost probe sent by Earth in the 21st century that has ended up in the Delta Quadrant.
While visiting the planet Ledos, Seven and Chakotay crash through an energy barrier. The two are stranded in the jungle with primitive humanoids, who take the pair in and care for Chakotay's injuries. To rejoin Voyager, he and Seven have to disable the energy barrier.
In the future where it took Voyager 23 years to get home, Admiral Janeway devises a plan to alter history. As the crew enters a final showdown with the Borg, the two Janeways implement a risky plan to take out one of the six Borg Transwarp Hubs in the galaxy and simultaneously cross the transwarp threshold to get home.
Originally shown as a two-hour series finale, but in syndication is shown as 2 separate episodes.
Summary of 2-Part episodes
Here is a summary of 2-part Voyager episodes, which are sometimes shown as a single feature length media and reviewed as such.
The feature-length episodes are among the series' highest rated.[168] In a 2016 review by The Hollywood Reporter ranking the top 15 Voyager episodes, 6 were double-episodes with "Year of Hell" and "Equinox" in the top two spots.[168] A 2012 top ten ranking by Den of Geek also placed "Year of Hell" as number one out of 172 shows.[169]
