My Top Five Star Trek: Voyager Episodes!

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[TheMadMaple]

An episode I'm kinda partial to is "One", where Seven is forced to pilot the ship by herself through a nebula while the rest of the crew is in stasis, and slowly starts cracking up. Great showcase for Jeri Ryan.

[ShinGallon]

Prodigy has gifted Trek with a lot, but I think one of it's greatest gifts is giving Chakotay not only a personality but also actual plot-important things to do.

[akosut]

I've always liked "Course: Oblivion." It hints that there was a much better version of the Voyager ship and crew we could have been watching instead, and then kills them in favor of the ones we've got instead. Sarcasm aside, I really like the way the episode is paced, and the ending is legitimately heartbreaking.

[kathyastrom]

I really like Living Witness, an excellent episode for the Doctor with a really good premise.

[Talon]

"I'm afraid..."
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The delivery sticks with me years afterward. Janeway became a recurring nightmare figure for months, a shadowed bogeywoman who just sat there menacingly.

[TheCoasterSerpent]

Voyager is my favorite Star Trek. There is so much I enjoy and I go back to it more often than any other series.

[stephenconroy]

The Torres 'mini-arc' about her sense of loss, identity etc. (Extreme Risk comes to mind, Day of Honour). Admittedly it's been a while since I've had a rewatch, but on reflection Roxann Dawson seemed to absolutely throw herself into those performances with Avery Brooks-level passion.

[terrenced]

It should be noted that in "Latent Image" it wasn't just that the other crew member died, it was that she and Kim had equal chances of survival but one would die if he treated the other. The Doctor chose to save Harry because of his friendship with him, which is what caused his ethical and moral subroutines to go haywire. He let his fondness for one crew member dictate his medical actions, and his program couldn't reconcile it.

[JonBerry]

Bliss is another good episode. It revisits the crews desire to get home, but also shows how both Seven and Naomi see Voyager as their home, not Earth or the Alpha Quadrant, thus making them immune to the telepathic pitcher's plant (TPP) group manipulation. My main complaint is how Seven or Naomi didn't reactivate the Doctor to help them, especially for when the TPP changes manipulation. It also ignores the repeatedly shown conflict that Seven has regarding returning to the Borg, but I would consider than more of a nick-pick rather than a complaint.

[Jenifer_R_]

Blink Of An Eye is one of the best Star Trek episodes overall, not just Voyager.

[chumley]

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy -- one of my all time favorites.

[kriscerosaurus]

I can never stay mad at Voyager. It was the series that hooked me into the Trek universe and gave me my love of stories about plucky little ships doing their best against big odds. Now, in my 40s, the issues are more glaring...but i still get butterflies if I hear that opening. :)

Also, the Intrepid class is so
Enjoy your goofy flying saucers, i wanna go to space in a SPACESHIP!

Enjoyed the video, bud. Keep up the great work!

[RadioJosiah]

Nancy Bell, who played Ensign Jetal, was teaching as a theatre professor at Cal State Long Beach when I was there as a theatre student, back around 2010. I didn't have the luck of being in one of her classes, but as it happened, one day I was practicing piano in one of the theatre dept classrooms after hours, and she stepped into the room. I thought she was about to ask me to stop playing, or to leave, but instead she said she was auditioning for Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and she wanted me to try out for Orsino. So I did, and she cast me on the spot, and she seemed to absolutely adore me from that point forward. I didn't even realize who she was in Trek until a much later time, which I think of as a good thing, because otherwise I would have been a bucket of nerves and probably wouldn't have casually nailed the audition like I had. But anyway I absolutely adore her too, and it seemed like a good time to share. She is every bit as amazing of a person as one would hope.

[cantantenoel]

A favorite Voyager episode of mine that I seldom see mentioned in lists like this is "Survival Instinct, " where we learn about an incident from Seven's past when she and three other Borg were temporarily separated from the collective after crash-landing on a deserted planet. The other three, who had been assimilated as adults, started regaining memories of their past lives and declaring their intentions to escape rather than return to the Borg. But Seven, who had been assimilated as a child and didn't know any other life, panicked at the thought of being separated fro the collective forever. So she created a new mental link just between the other three to subdue them, make them compliant again, and force them to repair their equipment so they could signal the Borg to come get them.

The whole episode deals with why Seven did what she did, and the aftermath, and really leans hard into the cult survivor reading of Seven's character. As an exvangelical who grew up deeply in the church and felt a lot of the same feelings as Seven after leaving it, I thought the episode absolutely nailed the emotional experience and the messed up things victims of intense religious indoctrination often do.

[cmaliga]

Equinox is my favorite Voyager episode and one of the all-time great Trek episodes for me. The image of John Savage's Captain Ransom sitting in a wrecked cabin, trying and failing to escape the hell he's put himself into with the neural stimulator just sticks with me.

[ricconway]

Janeway's speech about fear is one of Mulgrew's finest moments.

[patrickdodds]

I'd like to give a shout out to "Pathfinder". It's not just an important episode in the overall Voyager storyline, but it's well told too. Dwight Schultz give such an impassioned performance as a desperate Barclay doing what he can to get Voyager home (more than the Voyager itself!). The scene when they make contact works like a multitude of gangbusters. It ties into TNG's "Hollow Pursuits" without being a rip-off as Barclay is struggling with a loss of connection. He's not escaping from connection, he's in dogged pursuit to help save people he's never met but deeply cares for while faces being dismissed at every turn. Subsequently, it also gives Barclay an arc that started on TNG. It's HIGHLY underrated and like "Death Wish" it is Voyager's other great crossover episode. It's one of the franchise's most unfairly underrated episodes.

[steveng.clinard]

Solid list.

Not necessarily top 5, but my favorite Voyager performance is Jerri Ryan in "Body and Soul". Basically, the Doctor downloads into Seven's Borg implants, allowing Ryan to perform a manic and over-the-top Robert Picardo Doctor impression. She is so good that it's easy to forget that we aren't watching Picardo.

I had generally been kinda "meh" on Ryan and Seven until this episode.

[creativerealms]

Living witness was a great episode, I'm happy they did something different with "The evil version of the characters" instead of going with the mirror universe again. Going with voyager being made the villain in history was a much better way to do it. Also given the nature of the show, and how the crew simply involved itself with a couple of events and moved on as it nothing happened they wouldn't know their impact on history. I loved this episode. My only problem was I don't think it needed to take place seven hundred years in the future.

[jerethkhan]

Shattered was a pretty cool episode. Bringing back some characters and aesthetic of past voyager episodes as well as diving into one possible future. It also shows that Janeway's innate trust of Chakotay wasn't just a one off event and shows the crew is good at working together no matter the time frame.