...one could argue that Season Five is Harry's year.
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: "Night", "Drone", "Extreme Risk", "In the Flesh".
Disc 2: "Once Upon a Time", "Timeless", "Infinite Regress", "Nothing Human".
Disc 3: "Thirty Days", "Counterpoint", "Latent Image", "Bride of Chaotica!".
Disc 4: "Gravity", "Bliss", "Dark Frontier".
Disc 5: "The Disease", "Course: Oblivion", "The Fight", "Think Tank".
Disc 6: "Juggernaut", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "11:59", "Relativity".
Disc 7: "Warhead", "Equinox, Part I".
By Season Five, the writers finally realized that "Voyager" could no longer depend on the "alien-of-the-week" format. Therefore, the focus turned inwards as Seven of Nine tries to date and integrate herself into the ship's social structure, as Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres deal with her demons as they move closer towards marriage, and as Harry Kim begins to assert himself since he's no longer a wide-eyed first-year officer. In fact, one could argue that Season Five is Harry's year. The one-hundreth episode, "Timeless", features Harry sending messages back in time in order to prevent a disaster. (The 100-mark is important for TV shows for syndication purposes.) "The Disease" finds Harry disobeying Starfleet regulations and Janeway's orders as he becomes involved with a woman from an alien race (played by the gorgeous Musetta Vander) who's having a biochemical effect on him after intimate encounters. Finally, in "Warhead", Harry delights in taking command of the night shift so that he can play captain for a few hours. His quick thinking once again saves Voyager from destruction.
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