| Star Trek: Voyager | |
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| Genre | Science fiction[1] |
| Created by | |
| Based on | Star Trek byGene Roddenberry |
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| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 172(list of episodes) |
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| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 42–46 minutes |
| Production company | Paramount Network Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | UPN[2] |
| Release | January 16, 1995 (1995-01-16) – May 23, 2001 (2001-05-23) |
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Star Trek: Voyager is an Americanscience fiction series created byRick Berman,Michael Piller andJeri Taylor. It aired from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, onUPN, with 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in theStar Trek franchise, it served as the fourth afterStar Trek: The Original Series. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of aUnited Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of theStarfleet vesselUSS Voyager as it attempts to return home to theAlpha Quadrant after being stranded in theDelta Quadrant on the far side of thegalaxy.
Paramount Pictures commissioned the series after the cancellation ofStar Trek: The Next Generation to accompany the ongoingStar Trek: Deep Space Nine. They wanted it to help launch UPN, their new network. Berman, Piller, and Taylor devised the series to chronologically overlap withDeep Space Nine and to maintain thematic continuity with elements that had been introduced inThe Next Generation andDeep Space Nine. The complex relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as theMaquis was one such element and a persistent central theme.Voyager was the firstStar Trek series to feature a female commanding officer, CaptainKathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character. Berman was head executive producer in charge of the overall production, assisted by a series of executive producers: Piller, Taylor,Brannon Braga, andKenneth Biller.
Set in a different part of the galaxy from precedingStar Trek shows,Voyager gave the series' writers space to introduce new alien species as recurring characters, namely theKazon,Vidiians,Hirogen, andSpecies 8472. During the later seasons, theBorg—a species created forThe Next Generation—were introduced as the main antagonists. DuringVoyager's run, various episode novelizations and tie-in video games were produced; after it ended, various novels continued the series' narrative.
AsStar Trek: The Next Generation ended,Paramount Pictures wanted to continue to have a secondStar Trek television series to accompanyStar Trek: Deep Space Nine. The studio also planned to start a newtelevision network,UPN, and wanted the new series to help it succeed.[3]
Initial work onStar Trek: Voyager began in 1993, when the seventh and final season ofStar Trek: The Next Generation and the second season ofStar Trek: Deep Space Nine were in production. Seeds forVoyager's backstory, including the development of theMaquis, were placed in severalThe Next Generation andDeep Space Nine episodes.Voyager was shot on the stagesThe Next Generation had used, and where theVoyager pilot "Caretaker" was shot in September 1994. Costume designerRobert Blackman decided that the uniforms ofVoyager's crew would be the same as those onDeep Space Nine.
Star Trek: Voyager was the firstStar Trek series to usecomputer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots.[4]Babylon 5 andseaQuest DSV had previously used CGI to avoid the expense of models, but theStar Trek television department continued using models because they felt they were more realistic.Amblin Imaging won an Emmy forVoyager's opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly episode exteriors were captured with hand-built miniatures ofVoyager, its shuttlecraft, and other ships. This changed whenVoyager went fully CGI for certain types of shots midway through season three (late 1996).[5]Foundation Imaging was the studio responsible for special effects duringBabylon 5's first three seasons. Season three's "The Swarm" was the first episode to use Foundation's effects exclusively.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse in season six. In its later seasons,Voyager featured visual effects from Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse. The digital effects were produced at standard television resolution and some have speculated that it cannot be re-released in HD format without re-creating the special effects.[6] However,Enterprise has been released in HD, but the special effects were rendered in 480p and upscaled.[7]
In the initial drafts, Captain Janeway was meant to have the name Elizabeth Janeway, and the actressGeneviève Bujold was cast for the role. Bujold had previous experience in films, but not in long TV series. Feeling uncomfortable with the demanding production, she left after only two days of filming the pilot. To keep production working and meet the deadlines the role was given toKate Mulgrew, who had already been considered an option during the casting. Mulgrew also proposed to rename the character as Kathryn Janeway.[8] Mulgrew, with more experience in episodic TV series, soon became a fan favorite.[9]Robert Beltran knew nothing about theStar Trek franchise or the significance within it of the role he was auditioning for. He just got the "Caretaker" script from his agent, liked the story and the character, and successfully auditioned for it. He was aware, because of being familiar with the industry, that a pilot episode may eventually lead to an ongoing series.[10]Robert Duncan McNeill had played the character of Nicholas Locarno inThe Next Generation'sThe First Duty. Initially, Locarno would have returned in the Voyager series, but was later changed to a new character, Tom Paris. The casting notes mentioned that the producers wanted "a Robert Duncan McNeill type", which was noticed by McNeill's agent. He was eager to play the new character. He explained that "I get a call. My agent says, 'Hey, remember thatStar Trek episode you did a few years ago?' He goes, 'They’re making a new show called Voyager and they literally put out a casting notice saying 'a Robbie Duncan McNeill type.' They put my name. Kinda like the character on TNG. Like, my name was in [it]. And I’m like, 'I’m right here! That’s me!' And so [my agent says], 'I think you should… you can do this.'"[11]
Robert Picardo auditioned for the role of Neelix, but his friendEthan Phillips got it. Philips had already been cast in several minor roles in earlierStar Trek productions.[12] Reflecting on that, Picardo said, "And in that moment, I saved myself 6,000 hours of my life spent in a makeup chair."[13] However, after failing in the audition he was suggested to try for the character of the Doctor, which he got. He was initially unsure of his way to manage the character because of his limited participation in the pilot, and feared that he would be compared unfavorably withBrent Spiner. Spiner played the fan-favoriteData inThe Next Generation, another non-human being. "I was afraid I would be compared to him endlessly and unfavorably because he was so lovable and kind of childlike in his role and I was kind of, you know, crusty and curmudgeonly, and ... pissed off. And not a very cuddly character".[13] He secured the job by improvising a line in the pilot. When he's left alone in sickbay and all scripted lines were said, he added "I believe someone has failed to terminate my program".[13] He concluded saying "I'm a doctor, not a nightlight",[13] imitating the catchphrase ofLeonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the doctor of theoriginalStar Trek series. The people laughed, and he was hired some hours later.[13]
The series added a new main character during the mid-run,Seven of Nine, byJeri Ryan. So far in theStar Trek franchise, this had only happened inDeep Space 9 withWorf, which was a preexisting character and not a new one. Rick Berman explained that "I think after our first three years, the feeling was we wanted to add a bit of pizzazz to the show. We all agreed that we needed something to bring something fresh to the fourth season".[14] Berman was interested in the character of Data, a machine that wants to be human, but inverted the formula with a human that was turned into a machine and faces humanity as a new thing. For this purpose they used theBorg, villains fromThe Next Generation that had a positive reception. Ryan liked both the premise of the character and the optimist view of the future of theStar Trek franchise, which she preferred over the darker series she could audition for at the time, and got the job with little problem.[14]
UnlikeThe Next Generation, where composerJerry Goldsmith's theme fromStar Trek: The Motion Picture was reused, Goldsmith composed and conducted an entirely new main theme forVoyager. As done withThe Next Generation andDeep Space Nine, a soundtrack album of the series' pilot episode "Caretaker" and a CD single containing three variations of the main theme were released byCrescendo Records in 1995 between seasons one and two.[15][16] In 1996, the theme was also released as a piano solo songbook.[17]
In 2017, La-La Land Records issuedStar Trek: Voyager Collection, Volume 1, a four-disc limited-edition release containing Goldsmith's theme music and tracks fromJay Chattaway's "Rise", "Night", the two-parter "Equinox", "Pathfinder", "Spirit Folk", "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Shattered", "The Void", and the two-parter "Scorpion";Dennis McCarthy's "The 37's", the two-parter "Basics", "The Q and the Gray", "Concerning Flight", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", and the two-parters "Workforce" and "Year of Hell";David Bell's "Dark Frontier"; and Paul Baillargeon's "Lifesigns".[18]
In 2020,Newsweek magazine said that theVoyager theme by Goldsmith was the best of allStar Trek television series' themes.[19] The article elaborates, "...Voyager recaptures some of the spacey ethereality of Courage's original vocal melody, while adding a deep space resonance that evoked the series' lost explorers, far from home among uncharted stars."[19]
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In August 2015, the main cast members (exceptJennifer Lien, who had retired from acting in 2002) appeared together onstage in Las Vegas for the 20th anniversary ofStar Trek: Voyager at the 2015 Las VegasStar Trek convention.[20]
Following a path set byLeonard Nimoy, the firstStar Trek actor to also direct in the franchise,[21]Robert Duncan McNeill (Paris) andRoxann Dawson (Torres) went on to direct episodes ofStar Trek: Enterprise, whileJonathan Frakes,LeVar Burton, andAndrew Robinson (Garak ofDeep Space Nine) all directed episodes ofStar Trek: Voyager.[21]
The sets used for USSVoyager were reused for theDeep Space Nine episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" for her sisterIntrepid-class ship USSBellerophon (NCC-74705). The sickbay set of USSVoyager was also used as theEnterprise-E sickbay in the filmsStar Trek: First Contact andStar Trek: Insurrection. TheVoyager ready room and the engineering set were also used as rooms aboard theEnterprise-E inInsurrection.
Production of episodes ran from June or July to March or April each year, with each episode typically taking about seven days to shoot.[22] Shooting started at 7 a.m. each weekday and continued until finished for the day.[22] The pilot episode "Caretaker" took 31 days to shoot and was one of the most expensive television pilots shot to that date.[23]
In the pilot episode, "Caretaker",USS Voyager, under the command of CaptainKathryn Janeway, departs theDeep Space Nine space station on a mission into the treacherousBadlands. They are searching for a missing ship piloted by a team ofMaquis rebels, whichVoyager's security officer, theVulcan LieutenantTuvok, has secretly infiltrated.Tom Paris, a disgraced former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis and was subsequently arrested, agrees to help find the Maquis ship in exchange for his freedom. While in the Badlands,Voyager is enveloped by a powerful energy wave that kills several of its crew, damages the ship, and strands it in the galaxy'sDelta Quadrant, more than 70,000 light-years from Earth. The wave was used by an alien entity known as the Caretaker to pull first the Maquis ship, and thenVoyager into the Delta Quadrant. The Caretaker is responsible for the continued care of the Ocampa, a race of aliens native to the Delta Quadrant, and has been abducting other species from around the galaxy in an effort to reproduce and have a successor.
The two crews join forces to retrieve crew members being withheld for this purpose and eventually agree to permanently join forces. After the Caretaker dies, Janeway decides to protect the Ocampa from eminent invasion by another local alien species, theKazon, by destroying the Caretaker's transport array, also their means for returning home the way they came. To begin their now projected 75-year journey home,Chakotay, leader of the Maquis group, is madeVoyager's first officer.B'Elanna Torres, a half-human/half-Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer, and Paris becomesVoyager's helm officer. Due to the deaths of the ship's entire medical staff,the Doctor, an emergency medical hologram designed only for short-term use, is employed as the ship's full-time chief medical officer. Delta Quadrant nativesNeelix, a Talaxian scavenger, andKes, a youngOcampa, are welcomed aboard. Neelix eventually becomes the ship's chef/morale officer and Kes becomes the Doctor's medical assistant.
Due to its great distance fromFederation space, the Delta Quadrant is unexplored byStarfleet. As they continue their long journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species: the barbaric and belligerentKazon; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravagedVidiians; the nomadic hunter race theHirogen; the fearsomeSpecies 8472 from fluidic space; and most notably theBorg, who control large areas of space thatVoyager has to move through in later seasons. They also encounter perilous natural phenomena, a nebulous area called the Nekrit Expanse ("Fair Trade", third season), a large area of empty space calledThe Void, toxic dumping grounds ("Night", fifth season),wormholes, dangerousnebulae and other anomalies.
Voyager is the thirdStar Trek series to featureQ, an omnipotent alien—and the second on a recurring basis, as Q made only one appearance onStar Trek: Deep Space Nine. Starfleet Command learns ofVoyager's survival when the crew discovers an ancient interstellar communications network, claimed by the Hirogen, into which they can tap. This relay network is later disabled, but due to the efforts of Earth-based LieutenantReginald Barclay, Starfleet eventually establishes regular contact in the season-six episode "Pathfinder", using a communications array and micro-wormhole technology.
In the first two episodes of the show's fourth season, Kes leaves the ship in the wake of an extreme transformation of her mental abilities, whileSeven of Nine (known colloquially as Seven), a Borg drone who was assimilated as a six-year-old human girl, is liberated from the collective and joins theVoyager crew. As the series progresses, Seven begins to regain her humanity with the ongoing help of Captain Janeway, who shows her that emotions, friendship, love, and caring are more important than the sterile "perfection" the Borg espouse. The Doctor also becomes more human-like, due in part to a mobile holo-emitter the crew obtains in the third season which allows the Doctor to leave the confines of sickbay and even the ship itself. He discovers his love of music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode "Virtuoso". In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube. As he did with Seven of Nine, the Doctor rehumanizes the children;Azan, Rebi and Mezoti, three of them eventually find a new adoptive home while the fourth,Icheb, chooses to stay aboardVoyager.
Life for theVoyager crew evolves during their long journey. TraitorsSeska andMichael Jonas are uncovered in the early months ("State of Flux", "Investigations"); loyal crew members are lost late in the journey; and other wayward Starfleet officers are integrated into the crew. In the second season, the first child is born aboard the ship to Ensign Samantha Wildman; as she quickly grows up due to alien biology, Naomi Wildman becomes great friends with her godfather, Neelix, and develops an unexpected and close relationship with Seven of Nine. Early in the seventh season, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry after a long courtship, and Torres gives birth to their child, Miral Paris, in the series finale. Late in the seventh season, the crew finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bidVoyager farewell and live once again among his people.
Over the course of the series, theVoyager crew finds various ways to reduce their 75-year journey by up to five decades (barring any other delays they may encounter): shortcuts, in the episodes "Year of Hell", "Night" and "Q2"; technology boosts in "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Dark Frontier", "Timeless" and "Hope and Fear"; a subspace corridor in "Dragon's Teeth"; and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate in "The Gift". Several other trip-shortening attempts are unsuccessful, as seen in the episodes "Eye of the Needle", "Prime Factors", "Future's End", and "Inside Man". After traveling for seven years, a current (yet returning) shipmate helps instigate a series of complex efforts which shortens the remainder of the journey to a few minutes in the series finale, "Endgame".
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| First released | Last released | |||
| 1 | 16 | January 16, 1995 (1995-01-16) | May 22, 1995 (1995-05-22) | |
| 2 | 26 | August 28, 1995 (1995-08-28) | May 20, 1996 (1996-05-20) | |
| 3 | 26 | September 4, 1996 (1996-09-04) | May 21, 1997 (1997-05-21) | |
| 4 | 26 | September 3, 1997 (1997-09-03) | May 20, 1998 (1998-05-20) | |
| 5 | 26 | October 14, 1998 (1998-10-14) | May 26, 1999 (1999-05-26) | |
| 6 | 26 | September 22, 1999 (1999-09-22) | May 24, 2000 (2000-05-24) | |
| 7 | 26 | October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04) | May 23, 2001 (2001-05-23) | |
A total of 26 numbered books were released during the series' original run from 1995 to 2001.[24] They include novelizations of the first episode, "Caretaker", "The Escape", "Violations", "Ragnarok", and novelizations of the episodes "Flashback", "Day of Honor", "Equinox" and "Endgame". Also, "unnumbered books", which are still part of the series, were released, though not part of the official release. These novels consist of episode novelizations except forCaretaker,Mosaic (a biography of Kathryn Janeway),Pathways (a novel in which the biography of various crew members, including all of the senior staff, is given); andThe Nanotech War, a novel released in 2002, one year after the series' finale.
A series of novels focusing on the continuing adventures ofVoyager following the television series finale was implemented in 2003, much asPocket Books did with theDeep Space Nine relaunch novel series, which features stories placed after the finale of that show. In the relaunch, several characters are reassigned while others are promoted but stay aboardVoyager. These changes include Janeway's promotion to admiral, Chakotay becoming captain ofVoyager and breaking up with Seven of Nine, Tuvok leaving the ship to serve as tactical officer under William Riker, and Tom Paris's promotion to first officer on theVoyager. The series also introduces several new characters.
The series began withHomecoming andThe Farther Shore in 2003, a direct sequel to the series' finale, "Endgame". These were followed in 2004 bySpirit Walk: Old Wounds andSpirit Walk: Enemy of My Enemy. Under the direction of a new author, 2009 brought forth two more additions to the series:Full Circle andUnworthy. In 2011, another book by the same author calledChildren of the Storm was released. Other novels—some set during the relaunch period, others during the show's broadcast run—have been published.
Three video games based specifically onVoyager were released:Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force for PC (2000) and PS2 (2001), the arcade gameStar Trek: Voyager – The Arcade Game (2002) andStar Trek: Elite Force II (2003), a sequel toElite Force. The PS2 gameStar Trek: Encounters (2006) also features the ship and characters from the show.Voyager was agraphic adventure video game developed byLooking Glass Technologies but it was cancelled in 1997.
Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force drew revenues of $15 million and sold roughly 300,000 units worldwide by 2003.[25]
Star Trek: Voyager launched onUPN with repeats entering intosyndication.[26] The two hour long debut "Caretaker" was seen by 21.3 million people in January 1995.[27]
| TV season | Season | No. of episodes | Time slot, ET |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–95 | Season 1 | 16 | Monday at 8:00 pm(Episodes 1, 3–16) Monday at 9:00 pm(Episode 2) |
| 1995–96 | Season 2 | 26 | Monday at 8:00 pm(Episodes 1–19, 21–26) Wednesday at 8:00 pm(Episode 20) |
| 1996–97 | Season 3 | 26 | Wednesday at 9:00 pm |
| 1997–98 | Season 4 | 26 | Wednesday at 9:00 pm(Episodes 1–7, 19–26) Wednesday at 8:00 pm(Episodes 8–18) |
| 1998–99 | Season 5 | 26 | Wednesday at 9:00 pm(Episodes 1–14, 16–20, 22–26) Wednesday at 8:00 pm(Episode 15) Monday at 9:00 pm(Episode 21) |
| 1999–2000 | Season 6 | 26 | Wednesday at 9:00 pm |
| 2000–01 | Season 7 | 26 | Wednesday at 9:00 pm(Episodes 1–8, 10–24, 26) Wednesday at 8:00 pm(Episodes 9, 25) |
The series is available, Sunday through Friday evenings, on the broadcast network Heroes and Icons. It is also available for streaming in the United States onParamount+ andAmazon Prime Video.
Pluto TV also has three Star Trek channels which air the various series. The 'Star Trek' channel airs The Original Series and The Next Generation and has also aired Lower Decks, Picard and various specials and documentaries.[28] The 'Star Trek: Voyager' channel airs Voyager.[29] The ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ channel airs Deep Space Nine.[30] Most of the time the series which is currently airing is played in order, from start to finish.
In 2016, in a listing that included eachStar Trek film and TV series separately, Voyager was ranked 6th by theL.A. Times.[31] In 2017,Vulture rankedStar Trek: Voyager the 4th best live-actionStar Trek television show, prior toStar Trek: Discovery.[32] In 2019,Nerdist ranked this show the 5th best Star Trek series, in betweenEnterprise andStar Trek: Discovery.[33] Also in 2019,MovieFone ranked it the fifth best live-action Star Trek series.[34]
In 2019,CBR ranked Season 5 the 4th best season of aStar Trek show, and Season 4, the 8th best.[35] In 2019,Popular Mechanics rankedStar Trek: Voyager the 36th best science fiction television show ever.[36]Review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes gives the show a rating of 76% overall of the seven seasons based on 56 reviews.[37]Metacritic givesStar Trek: Voyager a score of 66 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[38] In 2021, Variety ranked it the fourth best installment ofStar Trek, counting series and movies together, placing it ahead of all television series to-date except the original.[39]
Voyager was notable for being the most gender-balancedStar Trek series with the first female lead character and strong female supporting characters,[40] with a review of the different series givingVoyager the highestBechdel test rating.[40] Critical and scholarly accounts noted the prevalence of women in leadership roles and with scientific expertise, but also the series' adherence to thegender binary andheterosexual norms.[41][42][43][44]
In an article aboutVoyager, Ian Grey wrote: "It was a rare heavy-hardware science fiction fantasy not built around a strong man, and more audaciously, it didn't seem to trouble itself over how fans would receive this. OnVoyager, female authority was assumed and unquestioned; women conveyed sexual power without shame and anger without guilt. Even more so thanBuffy, which debuted two years later, it was the most feminist show in American TV history."[45]
About her years onVoyager, Kate Mulgrew said: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcendingstereotypes that I was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience—and it continues to resonate."[46]
In 2015, astronautSamantha Cristoforetti tweeted a Janeway quote from the episode "The Cloud", "There's coffee in that nebula", from theInternational Space Station.[47] The station was getting a shipment of supplies which triggered a chance to say how coffee really was in the incoming spacecraft (aDragon cargo spacecraft).[47] The spacecraft was carrying theISSpresso machine which would allow coffee beverages to be made aboard the actual Space Station.[48] The popular tweet was accompanied by her wearing a Star Trek uniform also.[48]
The series was released on DVD in 2004 and again in 2017.[26] In addition to the episodes, the DVDs also include some extra videos related to the show.[26] There was an extra bonus video with the DVD set from the storeBest Buy in 2004.[26]Voyager had releases of episodes onVHS format, such as a collectors set with a special display box for the tapes.[49]
By the 2010s, the episodes were made available on various streaming services including the ownersCBS All Access.[50][51] In 2016 Netflix made an agreement with CBS for worldwide distribution of all then existing 727Star Trek episodes (including Voyager).[51]Voyager has 172 episodes and has been reviewed as a binge watch, with the whole series taking about three months, as rate of two episodes per day on weekdays and three episodes per day on weekends.As of 2015 services known to carry the series includeNetflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, and CBS.com.[52]
Star Trek: Voyager has not been remastered in high definition and there are no plans to do so, due to the costs of reassembling each episode from the film negatives and recreating visual effects.[53]
Voyager won 20 different awards and was nominated for 70.
In 1995 for example, Jerry Goldsmith won an Emmy award forOutstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music[54] and the series also won an Emmy forOutstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.[54]
The following episodes won Emmy awards, "Caretaker", "Threshold", "Fair Trade", "Dark Frontier", and "Endgame".[55]
In the midst of theCOVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the cast ofVoyager reunited for a live virtual event.[56] The reunion broke theStars in the House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainment professionals in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The previousStars in the House record was set by aGlee reunion episode that raised $13,910.[57]
In 2021, plans for aStar Trek: Voyager documentary made news when it raised over $638,000 in the first two weeks of itsIndiegogo crowdfunding campaign.[58] The film is being produced by 455 Films which also produced the 2018 reunion documentaryWhat We Left Behind aboutStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as other documentaries.[58] Production of the film started in 2020 and included cast member interviews prior to kicking off crowdfunding to take the film to full production.[59] By the end of March 2021 they had raised over $1.2 million from over 11 thousand donators to make it the most funded crowdfunded documentary ever,[60] and announced the nameTo The Journey: Looking Back At Star Trek: Voyager for the documentary,[60][61] which will include HD remastered footage (pending approval from ViacomCBS).[62][63] The fundraising campaign was noted for getting support from Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and others.[60][64]
A complicated question with a simple answer; It takes way too much time and money to remaster DS9 and Voyager into HD
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