Star Trek: Voyager: Season 6 (DVD)

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Paramount certainly knows how to release TV shows on DVD. The studio is doing "Star Trek" fans a great service by releasing entire RUNS in one calendar year. 2002 saw the release of all seven seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and 2003 saw the release of all seven seasons of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". Now, all seven seasons of "Star Trek: Voyager" are being released in 2004, and it looks like "Star Trek: The Original Series" will be re-released in box sets in 2004, too. Coupled with the special edition re-releases of the "Star Trek" feature films, there´s an average of one new "Star Trek" release every month--a definite cause for celebration.

"Star Trek: Voyager" begins with a Federation starship being sent to look for a Maquis (i.e. rebel) raider that was lost in The Badlands, an area of space near the Federation-Cardassian border that is filled with dangerous phenomena. The Voyager finds itself being pulled by an alien force from the Alpha Quadrant (which includes Earth) to the Delta Quadrant--a distance of more than 70,000 light years. The Voyager and Maquis crews join forces to find a way back home. Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) leads the Vulcan Chief of Security Tuvok (Tim Russ), pilot Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), and Operations Officer Harry Kim (Garrett Wang). The Native American Chakotay (Robert Beltran) heads a Maquis crew that includes the half-human/half-Klingon Chief of Engineering B´Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), and the combined crew picks up the Talaxian Neelix (Ethan Phillips) and the Ocampan Kes (Jennifer Lien). There´s even a holographic doctor (Robert Picardo). New to Season 4 was Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), a Borg drone who has been dis-assimilated from the Borg Collective.

Disc 1: "Equinox, Part II", "Survival Instinct", "Barge of the Dead", "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy".

Disc 2: "Alice", "Riddles", "Dragon´s Teeth", "One Small Step".

Disc 3: "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Pathfinder", "Fair Haven", "Blink of an Eye".

Disc 4: "Virtuoso", "Memorial", "Tsunkatse", "Collective".

Disc 5: "Spirit Folk", "Ashes to Ashes", "Child´s Play", "Good Shepherd".

Disc 6: "Live Fast and Prosper", "Muse", "Fury", "Life Line".

Disc 7: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Unimatrix Zero, Part I".

Season Six gets off to a strong start with the exciting conclusion to "Equinox". However, things quiet down with a couple of episodes that have strong moments but aren´t strong overall. What really gets the season going in the middle is the Voyager crew´s absorption of four Borg children. Seven of Nine gets to play mother, and re-introducing the children to their individuality and their "humanity" provides the show with plenty of humor and pathos.

Harry Kim gets another stand-out episode with "Ashes to Ashes". In that episode, a young lady who died on an away mission makes her way back to Voyager after being re-animated by an alien race. She and Kim initiate a love affair that satisfies Kim´s yearning for her since their Starfleet days. However, her biochemistry has been altered so drastically that she decides that she should return to the race that re-animated her rather than stay with Voyager. "Ashes to Ashes" is a genuinely moving moment in "Star Trek" history.