Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Fifth Season

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Summary: here is a list of special features read from the back cover
Review: 7 DISC SET FEATURING OVER 20 HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT

INCLUDES THESE EXCITING, BRAND NEW FEATURETTES:

BRAVING THE UNKNOWN: SEASON FIVE - FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH CAST AND CREW WITH GUEST STAR JASON ALEXANDER. PLUS A CAKE CUTTING CELEBRATION FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY!

VOYAGER TIME CAPSULE: B'ELANNA TORRES - FEATURES INTERVIEW WITH ROXAN DAWSON DISCUSSING HER CHARACTER AND DIRECTING EPISODES OF VOYAGER

VOYAGER TIME CAPSULE: TOM PARIS - ARCHIVE INTERVIEWS WITH ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL AND NEW INTERVIEWS WITH CAST MEMBERS DISCUSSING HIS CHARACTER AND DIRECTING EPISODES OF VOYAGER

THE BORG QUEEN SPEAKS - A RARE AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SUSANNA THOMPSON, WHO PORTRAYED THE BORG QUEEN IN THE TWO PART EPISODE "DARK FRONTEIR."

DELTA QUADRANT MAKE-UP MAGIC - MICHAEL WESTMORE DESCRIBES SEVERAL ALIEN MAKEUP DESIGNS THAT APPEARED THROUGHOUT THE SEVEN SEASONS OF VOYAGER

PHOTO GALLERY

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Summary: A weak season featuring George Costanza
Review: After a good run of episodes in season four,which was sparked by the debut of Seven of Nine,the following season found the show back on autopilot ala' early season two.
For great episodes like Timeless(the 100th episode),Drone,Bride of Chaotica ,Nothing Human and the two part Dark Frontier,there are weak episodes (The Fight,Once upon a Time,11:59, 30 Days, and The Disease).
The season finale cliffhanger Equinox brings much promise for the Sixth Season.Which was somewhat an improvement on the mediocre fifth.

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Summary: VOYAGER FINDS IT'S STRIDE
Review: After the growing pains of the first 3 Seasons, Season 4 presented fans with basically an almost entirely new show with the addition of Seven of Nine, and now Season 5 forges great adventure for the crew of the Starship Voyager as they fight to return home. The over-all feel of Season 5 changes the previous "Lost in Space" premise of the show and the Star Trek return to exploration. The Delta Flyer is introduced, new life and new civilizations are explored and most of all...the Borg Queen rises from the ashes of her demise in STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT to become Janeway's most dangerous adversary! Sit back and come along for the ride...as VOYAGER comes closer to home.

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Summary: Paint-by-number show continues...
Review: As mentioned, before in my other reviews of previous seasons, the start of the fifth season in the fall of 1998, co-creator Jeri Taylor left the show to spend more time with her family. After spending four years trying to make the show less of a boys club, it virtually left Brannon Braga to helm the final 3 seasons (though he would also depart before the start of the last season to begin work on the next spin-off series, Enterprise). Deep Space Nine was heading into its last season, so this would be the last year that two Star Trek shows would compete with each other. There was hope that those fans dedicated to DS9 would come over to Voyager full time. Thusly, once again, the series changed its tone. The stories would be more action, and less talk, but like the four seasons that had passed, the fifth continued its downward spiral of many pointless episodes with a few good ones thrown in to fool you. Of the first 10 episodes of the season, only Timeless, the series 100th episode, showed what Braga once was as just a writer. The script was well done, the direction from former TNG actor LaVar Burton is great (despite his ratings grabbing cameo) and showed us something that Garrett Wang had not been able to do since the series began, show that he really could act. Another bad element reared its head was in Thirty Days, in which Tom Paris is demoted in rank after disobeying orders. This, by now, appeared to be out place for the character- besides Tom's problems were mostly cleared up in Caretaker and really completely resolved by the middle of the series second season. To return to something that already had been elucidated just smacked of writers who had hoped you didn't remember the Tom character from those two seasons. The second half had the semi-good Counterpoint, which showed a Janeway that should have been. She was very bully like, especially when she kidnaps someone to get information. That was a bold Kirk move, and something akin to the "cowboy diplomacy" Picard once spoke about. And while Bride of Chaotica was just plain silly, it gave the actors a chance to break out of their confining roles as fascists. Even Mulgrew, while at first reluctant to don the costume of Arachnea, Queen of the Spider People, chews the scenery as only William Shatner as Kirk could. The rest of the season yawned on, with Dark Frontiers being the highlight of the season. And while at close scrutiny, you can see many plot holes -though the biggest has Seven's parents pursuing the Borg long before the Federation had contact with them in TNG episode Q Who, something that to this day remains muddled in conflict -the show works. Susanna Thompson makes a worthy predecessor as the Borg Queen; though it would've been better with Star Trek First Contact's Alice Krige as the Queen. The rest of season went on, with only Relativity being the highlight. A clever script -a clip show if you like- that featured the return of Captain Braxton from season three's Future's End. It was witty and filled with many nuances that only appear once in a while on this series. The season concluded with Equinox, the first cliffhanger since season three's Scorpion. Unfortunately, once again the story was fairly obvious and the characters all were so stereotypical (see Learning Curve), you could easily figure how this story was going to end. And while Ransom was an interesting character and resembled captains from TOS era, most of his crew, however, were just plain too creepy to be likable.

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Summary: Very good season, with few errors
Review: I really enjoyed this season. I think my favorite episodes include "Dark Frontier" where we see the Borg complex and get to see a species being assimilated. I also really enjoyed "Timeless" where Chakotay and Kim are in the future trying to save their long-dead comrades. One episode that did have a pretty big error was "Course: Oblivion." In that episode it had been 11+ months since the crew visited the Demon Planet of season 4, 11 months heading towards home. When the duplicated crew started heading home (opposite direction of the Alpha Quadrant mind you) they are all dying. A few weeks out from home they almost run into the real Voyager and crew? That would seem that Voyager was just running around in circles for the better part of a year. Not to mention the fact that the last episode of season 4 "Hope and Fear" they use the quantum slipstream drive to get like another 10,000 light years closer to home. So just in case you haven't been paying attention, how was it possible for the real Voyager to be near the Demon Planet of season 4? Anyways, don't worry about this one error, it was the only one I found and the season was otherwise excellent

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Summary: Paris Reduced in Rank, 'Seven' Tempted by the Borg
Review: Less than one year following the concluding season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, executive producer/writer Rick Berman, along with Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor, created a fourth television series based upon the "Star Trek" universe originally created by Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) in the 1960's. This fourth television series, entitled "Voyager" (which is the name of the Federation of Planets starship used in the series), first aired in January 1995, and ran for seven seasons until it concluded in May 2001. Because "Voyager" aired initially in the month of January (instead of the traditional September), only 16 episodes were filmed for the first season. The succeeding six other seasons had 26 episodes each, for a grand total of 172 episodes for the entire series.

Unlike the previous three "Star Trek" television series, which (for the most part) took place within the bounds of the Federation of Planets (or in nearby sovereign areas of space, such as the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Empire) in the Alpha Quadrant, the starship Voyager is hurled tens of thousands of light-years from home into the previously unknown and unexplored Delta Quadrant, which is located at the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even while traveling at warp 8 (the fastest safe speed that a typical starship can travel), it would take Voyager several decades to return to Earth. Hence, the series focuses on the survival of Voyager's Starfleet crew, who are completely isolated and unable to even maintain normal communications with Earth, as well as the crew's ultimate desire to find a way home faster than their ship is capable of doing. Also, along the way, Voyager adopts a few Delta Quadrant natives.

The primary cast members of the fourth season of "Voyager" include Captain Catherine Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran), the half-Klingon Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), Lt. Thomas Eugene Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), Delta Quadrant native (Talaxian) Neelix (Ethan Phillips), the holographic Emergency Medical Holographic Program (a.k.a., "The Doctor", played by Robert Picardo), the Vulcan Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok (Tim Russ), Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and the former Borg drone Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Voyager's fifth season begins with the episode "Night", in which Voyager has been traveling through a void that may take them 2 years to traverse and the crew is slowly going crazy. The ship is attacked by three alien ships built by natives of the seeming void; but when Voyager is assisted by another alien ship that is dumping deadly radioactive waste into the void, Voyager's crew realizes what is happening to the void's natives.

During the fifth season of "Voyager", Seven of Nine becomes an accidental mother to an advanced drone named One (J. Paul Boehmer) in episode "Drone", B'Elanna continues her ongoing struggles with her Klingon half, Kim from the future attempts to save Voyager from total destruction in episode "Timeless", Paris is punished for trying to save a watery world in episode "Thirty Days", the holographic doctor is plagued by a difficult decision in episode "Latent Image" and Capt. Janeway battles the Borg Queen (Susanna Thompson) in the two-part episode "Dark Frontier". The best fifth-season episodes, in order of airdate, include "Night", "Drone" (one of the best "Voyager" episodes ever), "Extreme Risk", "In the Flesh" (the return of species 8472), "Timeless", "Thirty Days", "Counterpoint", "Latent Image", "Bride of Chaotica!" (aliens visit Paris' holodeck program), "Gravity", "Bliss", "Dark Frontier (Parts 1 and 2)", "Juggernaut", "11:59", "Relativity", "Warhead" and the season finale "Equinox, Part 1". The least memorable fifth-season episodes include "Once Upon a Time", "The Disease" and "The Fight".

Overall, I rate the fifth season of "Voyager" with 4 out of 5 stars since it was a slightly weaker season than its predecessors, but did have some very good episodes.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best seasons
Review: Night- don't remember
Drone- 2/10
Extreme Risk- 4/10
In The Flesh- 9/10

Once Upon a Time- 9/10
Timeless- 10/10
Infinite Regress- 10/10
Nothing Human- 6/10

Thirty Days- 3/10
Counterpoint- don't remember
Latent Image- 10/10
Bride of Chaotica!- 8/10

Gravity- 7/10
Bliss- 3/10
Dark Frontier, part 1- 4/10
Dark Frontier, part 2- 4/10

The Disease- 3/10
Course: Oblivion- 9/10
The Fight- 8/10
Think Tank- 1/10

Juggernaut- don't remember
Someone to Watch Over Me- 8/10
11:59- 10/10
Relativity- 10/10

Warhead- 4/10
Equinox, part 1- 3/10

The best episodes are: Relativity, 11:59, Latent Image, Timeless, Infinite Regress, In The Flesh, Once Upon a Time, Course:Oblivion

The worst episodes are: Think Tank, Drone, Equinox, part 1, Thirty Days, The Disease, Bliss

Rating:
Summary: Possibly the best season of the series
Review: Seasons three and four of Star Trek: Voyager were when the show put its feet on the ground and started to run. The writing got progressively better. There were a ton of GREAT GREAT episodes, but I must say that, in my opinion, this fifth season is the most consistent of the ones to date. There is some great storytelling in this season. Another great addition to the series was the Delta Flyer. Let's face it...the Delta Flyer was COOL! It added a whole new action dimension to the series. When this season came around, we had enough backstory to really dive into the lives of the characters. The Borg again return in "Dark Frontier". The Borg are ALWAYS a welcome sight. They bring action and mystery seemingly everytime they show up. Tom Paris is reduced in rank in one of my personal favorite episodes of the SERIES in "Thirty Days". How can you beat turning the Delta Flyer into a submarine? And then, of course, there is "Timeless". Productionwise the 100th episode of the series. Temporal mechanics and a ship crashing into the ice. Enough said! There is, again, a cliffhanger at the end of this season and it's a doozy. We find out that Voyager is not alone, and the other crew is nowhere near in as good a shape, physically and mentally, as Captain Janeway's valient crew. This is a great season of television. Enjoyable all the way through with very few duds. This could be the best season of the series.

Best Episodes:

Night, Drone, Extreme Risk, In the Flesh, Timeless, Thirty Days, Counterpoint, Latent Image, Bride of Chaotica, Bliss, Dark Frontier, Someone to Watch Over Me, Relativity, Equinox: Part I

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Summary: Beginning of the End For Voyager
Review: Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season was the beginning of the end for good story telling on Voyager. Although the seasons following Season Five still have many good stand-out episodes, this is the final season that told extremely well stories with one good episode after another, flowing into the next.

There are many great episodes that stand out in this season, far more than the poor performing sixth season to follow. This is my second-favorite Voyager season, right after Season Four.

Although this season originally didn't have any 2-part episodes, it did air a 2-hour movie called "Dark Frontier" which has now been separated into separate 2-part episodes.

Species 8472 returns for the last time in "In the Flesh" and finally opens communication with Voyager.

Naomi Wildman, who was born in the Second Season of Voyager, gets a new talented young actress, Scarlett Pomer, in "Once Upon a Time" which made way for the character to have numerous appearances from now until the end of the show's run.

Tom Paris gets demoted to Ensign in "Thirty Days" after betraying Janeway's orders. But don't worry, he gets his rank back in Season Six.

The episode "Bride of Chaotica" is a nice change of pace and has some funny scenes.

Season Five also aired the 100th episode, this allowed the show to go into syndication, which helped bring in more people to watch the show.

Unlike Season Four, this season has an explosive season finale cliffhanger called "Equinox".

WORST OF SEASON FIVE: "Nothing Human", "Counterpoint", "The Disease", "The Fight", and "11:59".

Rating:
Summary: Things are flying!
Review: The Delta Flyer appears this season along with Tom Paris' "Captain Proton" adventures.