Endgame: Voyager Finds Her Way Home
I still remember it well, that day I saw the Starship Voyager
set course for the Badlands and make history as the title ship of the unprecedented
third Star Trek spin-off. It was a chilly January day back in 1995, and
a group of friends and I had just returned from a trip to see Generations
on the big screen. That trip was up to Birmingham, our college town of Tuscaloosa
lacking a decent theater. Also lacking in T-town was a UPN affiliate, and not
even the cable providers carried Birmingham’s UPN 68. During our trip we
met up with my father, who handed off a video tape containing “Caretaker”—Voyager’s
premiere episode. With delight we rushed back down the highway and to our campus
home.
BRAVE NEW WORLD
When we returned and gathered around the TV, a much anticipated moment came
to pass. We were finally embarking on a journey to a brave new world. Just as
Deep Space Nine had begun with a tie-in to the strong Next Generation
(TNG), so Voyager started off mixed with the solidly footed Deep
Space Nine (DS9). Soon after the episode was underway, however, the ship
and her crew were flung away from the space station and all of the Star Trek
universe. It may have seemed like a great idea when Berman, Piller, and Taylor
sat down at the drawing board, but in the end it may not have been such a great
move after all.
The reasoning behind the Lost In Space-theme seemed to be that the Alpha
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