The seventy thousand light year transit cost the lives of over a dozen crew members. This was the doing of a powerful alien being known as the Caretaker. On the ship's first mission while departing the space station Deep Space 9, which required it to find and capture a Maquis vessel that disappeared into the treacherous Badlands, the crew of Voyager, as well as that of the Maquis ship it was pursuing, were swept clear across the galaxy and deep into the Delta Quadrant.
It was fitting that the ship's captain, Kathryn Janeway, rose up through the science ranks rather than command. Launched in the year 2371, the Intrepid-class Federation starship USS Voyager was a ship built to return to Starfleet's founding principle of scientific exploration.
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This is the first Star Trek series to feature a female captain in the main cast. The writers often noted that many episodes had underlying themes and messages or were metaphors for current social issues. The series is best known for its familial crew, science fiction based plots, engaging action sequences, and light humor. In some areas without local access to UPN, it was offered to independent stations through Paramount Pictures, for its first six seasons.
It was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor, and ran on UPN, as the network's first ever series, for seven seasons in the USA, from 1995 to 2001. Star Trek: Voyager is the fifth Star Trek series. Voyager redirects here for additional meanings of "Voyager", please see Voyager.