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Cast and crew [ ]

Directed by

• James Goldstone

Writing credits

• Ed Spielman

Cast (in credits order) - verified from Earth Star Voyager credit list

• Duncan Regehr .... Jacob Dryden 'Jake' Brown (Former CDR, Vanguard Explorer)
• Brian McNamara .... Capt. Jonathan Hays (Commander, Earth*Star Voyager)
• Julia Montgomery .... Dr. Sally Arthur, M.D. (Space Medicine)
• Jason Michas .... Jessie 'Beanie' Bienstock (Computer Sciences)
• Tom Bresnahan .... Huxley Welles (Navigation)
• Margaret Langrick .... Luz Sansone (Communications)
• Sean O'Byrne .... Lt. Vance Arthur (First Officer, Vanguard Explorer)
• Peter Donat .... Adm. Beasley

Rest of cast listed alphabetically :

• Dinah Gaston .... Lani Miyori (Communications)
• Andrew Kavadas .... Brody Arnold (Physical Fitness Technician)
• John "Bear" Curtis .... Whistlestick
• Stephen Dimopoulos .... The Crier
• Bruce Harwood .... Dr. Leland Eugene, M.D. (Psychiatrist)
• Henry Kingi .... Shell
• Nigel Harvey .... Security Leader
• Barry Kennedy .... Lt. Matthews
• Kevin McNulty .... CDR. Gardner
• Lynette Mettey .... Priscilla (Main Computer)
• Ric Reid .... Capt. Forbes
• Frank C. Turner .... Willy
• David Paul Hewitt White .... Guard
• Jennifer Michas .... Jeannie
• Stephen E. Miller .... Lt. Krieger
• Enid Saunders .... Elderly Woman
• Mike Stack .... Crewman #1
• Sandy Tucker .... Mrs. Bienstock
• Meredith Bain Woodward .... Mrs. Hays

In the year 2082, the Earth deep-space exploration vessel, Vanguard Explorer , has suffered heavy damage, due to the efforts of Captain Jacob 'Jake' Brown trying to keep his ship out of the hands of mutineers led by his second-in-command, Vance Arthur. Feigning compliance, Jake attacks Vance and knocks him senseless long enough for him to get to an escape pod and launch into space. However, the cause of the damage on board the Vanguard Explorer is unknown.

The German-language VHS introduces the plot: "It is year 2087. The Earth is dying. They must find a new planet."

It is now six years later, in the year 2088. Command cadet Jonathan Hays, twenty-one, and his best friend Jessie 'Beanie' Bienstock, a 14-year-old computer specialist, are among the young military cadets chosen to serve as the crew of Earth*Star Voyager , the planet's newest interstellar vessel. Due to worsening ecological conditions on Earth, there is a plan in place to evacuate the planet and colonize another world. (This mission is noted on the cover of the German VHS: see image at right ). Probes have been sent out six years ago via the Vanguard Explorer , and one has sent data back on Berenson's Star; she has a life-zone planet which has been named 'Demeter'. The mission of Earth*Star Voyager is to go to Demeter, perform a full planetary survey and return that information because if conditions on Demeter prove accurate (the probe's data indicates that human life could survive on Demeter), then the human race will colonize the world. The plan to colonize Demeter has already begun; ships are already being built to transport the population but will take forty years to complete construction of all the necessary vessels, and the trip to Demeter, with 'plasma-thrust' engines and the Bauman Drive (named for Professor Bauman, the creator) will take 26 years. That was the rationale of choosing the crew from the Academy—for their youth and intelligence. Jonathan, as second-in-command, will assume command if Forbes is shown to be unable to continue his duties due to age. It is also mentioned that a modified form of cryogenic suspension will be used by the crew during the voyage in order to slow the ageing process. (Beanie mentions that he'll be forty years old upon their return to Earth, and Captain Forbes also mentions that although the process will slow their ageing, they will still age.)

Among the crew members are Lani Miyori (a communications specialist) and Luz Sansone, a fellow communications tech who takes an immediate liking to Beanie. Also aboard are Dr. Sally Arthur, a 24-year-old M.D., Huxley Welles, an 18-year-old navigator, and Dr. Leland Eugene, the ship's psychiatrist.

The crew arrives aboard the Earth*Star Voyager , and are met by Captain Forbes (the commanding officer), Brody (the ship's resident physical fitness instructor - crew members are required to engage in a physical fitness program), and 'Priscilla', the sentient supercomputer that is the primary logic circuit for the vessel - who has seemingly developed a crush upon Huxley. It is mentioned that this was a concern by the programmers; Priscilla is designed from the brain engrams of Priscilla Bauman (the daughter of Professor Bauman), and as such, she has all of memories, thoughts, feelings and desires of the real Priscilla Bauman. This is slightly annoying to Huxley.

Adm. Beasley, a war hero who fought back a criminal organization called the Outlaw Technology Zone, gave them a final pep-talk and saw them off from his flag ship, the Triton Corsair.

Not long after embarking on the mission, the ship has to pass through the junk belt. Immediately entering the belt, the auto-pilot is unable to travel the course plotted because the junk starts to move due to the ship's engines. After the shields and ship take some damage, Jonathan takes manual control and flys the ship through without taking further damage. While checking the repairs on an airlock, Captain Forbes finds himself trapped inside with the system set to open the airlock to space. Moments later, coming to check on the Captain, Jonathan finds him before the airlock opens. Before being blown into space, the Captain tells Jonathan to keep going and to 'complete the mission'. Jonathan orders the ship's psychiatrist to review the crew's profiles for any hint of psychopathology. Later, Lani mentions to Jonathan that she has suspicions of Dr. Leland Eugene but Jonathan says he cannot go on a hunch alone. Following this Lani is critically injured while in cryo-sleep by an apparent malfunction.

Along the way to Demeter, they pick up the long lost astronaut Capt. Jacob 'Jake' Brown, while stopping at an abandoned station to make some repairs. Brown initially paralyzes Huxley with a weapon but it is revealed that he did so to prevent Huxley from walking straight into an "anti-matter zone." Capt. Brown is accepted on board as an advisor to Jonathan and, finding out that the crew is only armed with hand weapons, volunteers to build a rail-gun with the help of Beinstock in an airlock. Jonathan then receives evidence of the death of Capt. Forbes and Lani's coma that points to Leland, the psychiatrist. When Jonathan confronts him, Priscilla calls Jonathan that suspicious activity in the rail-guns airlock. Jonathan investigates and finds Brody, the fitness instructor, is sabotaging the rail-gun, a fight ensues and the fitness instructor is jettisoned out of the airlock. A transmitter is later discovered amongst his possessions, that he was apparently using to keep in contact with a blip that intermittently appeared on the Voyager's long range scans.

The crew also explores a distress signal from a massive space station known as 'the 2020 World's Fair', which is inhabited by warriors and researchers of the Outlaw Technology Zone. The landing party is captured by the warriors after encountering one of Captain Brown's former crew members, Willy. They discover that the mutinous Vance has also landed here and became "Top Dog" of the warriors by employing a stunner much like the one Brown used on Huxley. A warrior, named Whistlestick, who was beaten and humiliated by Vance explains that anyone may challenge the "Top Dog" at any time and Huxley demonstrates his skill at pickpocketing by getting the key for their cage. Brown offers to occupy their captors by challenging Vance while the rest escape. After a difficult fight, Brown (who taught Vance how to make such weapons long ago) is able to make Vance's weapon backfire and destroys it - but spares Vance's life (unaware that Sally was watching and afraid that he would be killed by Jake). In the ensuing ruckus the crew and their two new allies escape.

The next discovery, explaining how Vance and Willie got to the World's Fair Station in the first place was finding the wreckage of the Vanguard Explorer . Capt. Brown requests the permission to board it and retrieve his logs to prove that the loss of his ship was due to mutiny, and to see if there was anything left salvageable. He, Beinstock and the Doctor find the ship to still have some power and computer function, but also find an unwelcome guest known as a 'Shell'—a cyborg. Brown is able to shock the Shell into unconsciousness, and Doctor Arthur insists they take him to the ship to help and examine him. In a cut-away scene it is revealed that Adm. Beasley has become aware of the Shell's presence on Voyager, but is unable to do anything about it.

Willie explains that the Shell is a cyborg created by the O.T.Z. and although it is only a drone it is probably packed with explosives. The Doctor with the help of Beinstock is able to disarm the explosives and treat his injuries, and is able to bring the Shell back to consciousness while also keeping him immobilized. They interrogate the Shell, and he mentions that his function is to help facilitate "Assembly." Data from the Vanguard indicates that several odd-looking ships passed by the Vanguard from the World's Fair over the last few years. Later analysis indicates the ships are modular. Later on, Dr. Arthur speaks to the Shell and discovers that he was abducted and turned into a cyborg when he was young. After making some small adjustments to him to ease his discomfort, Doctor Arthur and he form a brief emotional connection before his programming returns him to his drone-state. Later he regains his full movement and smashes his way through the ship, damaging Capt. Brown's jury-rigged railgun weapon and one of Priscilla's processors. The Shell warns them that they must stop "Assembly" then deactivates himself rather than let his programming make him kill Dr. Arthur.

In another cut away scene, Vance finds himself in dire straights back on the World's Fair as the warriors now hunt him for his treatment of them. Admiral Beasley appears and demands an explanation from him. Their dialogue indicates that the mutiny on the Vanguard Explorer was part of some design of Beasley's and that Beasley is somehow connected, if not in control of, the O.T.Z. After Vance reveals he was defeated by the presumed-dead Capt, Brown Beasley leaves Vance to his fate, and returns to the Corsair. This scene is left out of some versions of the show.

Back on board Voyager the crew have made repairs and discover how their spacecraft fits into a conspiracy concocted by the Outlaw Technology Zone and Admiral Beasley, the mastermind behind the entire plot (including the construction of Earth*Star Voyager , the selection of the crew, and the creation of the 'Shell'). The O.T.Z. ships, the Assembly, were stationed in a binary solar system to use the light from the stars upcoming alignment to give them sufficient power to join together and form an even more massive and heavily armed ship. A section of the completed Assembly was designed to allow Voyager to fit in near the bow.

Beasley's ship fires warning shots at Voyager to keep them on course to the Assembly, and then he reveals why he had chosen the best and the brightest the world had to offer to crew Voyager. He intended Voyager not to be an exploratory vessel but a colony ship. Joining the Voyager to the O.T.Z. Assembly would give Beasley the Bowman Drive and Priscilla. This would enable him to choose whom else would get to be part of his new Utopia, while leaving the rest of humanity to rot back on Earth.

However, the crew outwits Admiral Beasley and escapes (after a battle in which they use jury-rigged weapons, including a 'solar laser' (which can gather and redirect solar energies in a beam-like fashion), and the railgun built by Jake and Beanie). During the battle, Jake nearly sacrifices himself to hold together part of the electrical circuit that allows the railgun to be fired; he is saved by Sally. Aboard the Admiral's damaged vessel, the Triton Corsair , Admiral Beasley acknowledges Jonathan's skill as a commander, and promises that he will meet up with the crew of the Earth*Star Voyager again someday. There is an alternate scene of this in the 120-minute VHS version where Beasley is revealed to be some sort of robot or cyborg (or perhaps himself a Shell), while leaving out the promise dialogue.

Aboard the Earth*Star Voyager , Lani is found to be recovering from her injuries; Beanie and Luz (prodded by Priscilla) become a couple; it is strongly insinuated that Jake and Sally will become a couple; and Huxley is stunned to see that Priscilla (in human form) is a very beautiful woman. Beanie also reveals to Jonathan that he has decrypted the probe data and the crew sees that Demeter is a planet with striking similarities to Earth. The last line of the miniseries goes to Jake, who says, "You know, Captain, I think we oughta go check that place out..."

Additional information [ ]

Many of the lead actors (at least 6) were born in Canada.

The production was shot entirely in Vancouver Canada and partially filmed inside The Soviet Pavilion built for Expo '86.

While significant numbers of notes from fans since 2002 (and many more showing up as early as 1996), from various fan sites, show up constantly and ask why this show has not been released,...Disney has not responded giving the impression it will not release the show, in a digital format, to the public.

Some fans have called various departments and levels of the Disney corporation to find out availability. While Disney executives and lawyers deny such conversations existed, fans have stated they have been told by Disney Movie Sales Associates that the only place fans should even consider hope in obtaining the show is on bootlegged media.

Of the bootleg versions available, the lesser quality media has seemed to disappear over the years, while they do occasionally pop up from time to time. Of the higher quality versions, there still seem to be two different versions available. While both contain the entire broadcast movie, one version boasts a complete movie -minus the commercials and introductions -starring the former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner. The version without the commercials seems to be one of the better quality versions, and those who find private sellers occasionally end up with the semi-rare custom DVD artwork.

The show (240 minutes in 4 series) was screened by the Ostankino 2 channel in Russia in Winter 1993 in their 'Disney film classics' series on Fridays.

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Earth Star Voyager

Film details, brief synopsis, cast & crew, duncan regehr, brian mcnamara, julia montgomery, jason michas, tom breznahan, margaret langrick, technical specs.

Six young people are forced to take command of an interstellar spaceship and proceed with a life-and-death mission, when their captain mysteriously disappears.

Sean O'byrne

Peter donat, henry kingi, lynnette mettey, frank c. turner, dinah gaston, bruce harwood, john curtis, stephen dimopoulos, nigel harvey, andrew kavadas, barry kennedy, kevin mcnulty, jennifer michas, stephen e. miller, enid saunders, sandy tucker, meredith bain woodward, howard alston, lance anderson, paul baxley, rusty beith, edward a. biery, tom bronson, joe citarella, john de cuir, dino dimuro, dennis doty, richard edlund, golden a. felton, mark friedgen, mike graham, mike gutierrez, lenny jennings, don macdougall, david marshall, david mcmoyler, joseph melody, edward nassour, robert j. schiffer, lalo schifrin, greg schorer, edward spielman, martin starger, robert m stevens, monique stranan, ian d thomas, scot tinsley, miscellaneous notes.

Aired in United States January 17, 1988

Aired in United States January 24, 1988

"Earth*Star Voyager" is the first miniseries to debut on "The Disney Sunday Movie."

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Earth star voyager.

Directed by James Goldstone

In the late 21st century, planet earth's natural resources are near depletion, and problems like acid rain and limited breathable oxygen abound. In response to the environmental decline, the Earth Star Voyager is created as an experimental space ship that sends the brightest young crewmen and women on a quest to find a new planet that human beings can colonize. Along the way, they find the long lost Jacob 'Jake' Brown, find a world with hostile aliens, and learn that the star craft's top secret purpose was not just a peaceful space exploration mission, but also potentially the critical piece of a super weapon.

Duncan Regehr Brian McNamara Julia Montgomery Jason Michas Tom Bresnahan Margaret Langrick Sean O'Byrne Peter Donat Dinah Gaston Bruce Harwood Lynnette Mettey

Director Director

James Goldstone

Alternative Titles

El viajero de las estrellas de la tierra, "The Magical World of Disney" Earth Star Voyager: Part 1

Science Fiction Adventure

Releases by Date

17 jan 1988, releases by country.

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Review by bouphe ★

Boring as fuck except one dudes haircut. One of the good guys cuts it off him and it's back to being boring again.

One of those made-for-tv movies full of space jargon and the plot is all over the place

Review by Paul Senior ★★

Failed TV pilot, a two part story that's three...hours.......long.

It's the future and everything sucks. A fancy new starship is launched with a crew of poofy haired high school students and a crusty old captain who gets blown out an airlock inside of an hour.

You can see the pieces are being put into place for a regular series, the ship keeps bumping into new characters who join the team. There's various mysteries to solve and the young captain wrestles with the responsibility of command yadda yadda.

I could barely finish this. It's flatly directed and as generic as they come. It wouldn't be out of place in 1978, too bad it was made in 1988! There's potentially interesting points…

Review by Phil Worfel ★★★★

One of the films that I have no real objectivity on. It used to play every so often on the Wonderful World of Disney Sunday night movie as a two part-er. Watched it recently and still really enjoyed it.

Review by woroz ★★★

Excellently imaginative and inspiring sci-fi. I watched this so many times growing up between the ages of 7 and 12, but hadn't watched it since and still remembered it completely. It has a mix of everything going on in a nice bundle that keeps excellent pace and every moment interesting. Not flashy, not overtly profound, but lots of good ideas presently in a medium-serious and yet light and enjoyable way, with a nice mix of characters.

Review by Gazorra ★★★

It's a pity that this show never made it past the two pilot movies. It might have really been something, given more time. The first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which started a year earlier, were pretty bad compared to the later seasons but had the benefit of time to figure out what it was supposed to be. Perhaps Disney was afraid of the similarities: There's a bearded Riker-esque protagonist, a Wesley Crusher-like boy genius, a female computer voice, a ship's counselor, a ship's doctor, a borg-like character... ok, now that I type this out I can see that actually they probably had a good point to cancel it. But what a shame, all the same! The…

Review by Jon ★★★

I saw this once on TV as a kid, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t hold up but I would like to see this again someday.

Review by Ripplin ★★★★

An old favorite of mine, this is a 1988 Disney TV-movie, shown in two parts for a total runtime of just under 3 hours. It was meant as a pilot for a show that, sadly, never happened. Maybe they didn't want to compete with Star Trek: TNG?

This is set in 2088 and follows the exploits of a young crew on their way to scout the planet Demeter, reason being that Earth has basically been too ruined to continue supporting people indefinitely. (which seems pretty accurate to me based on current trends) But not everything goes according to plan and they eventually learn the incredible implications of their journey, which had been kept from them.

Though I don't quite get…

Review by Chuck Harper ★★★

Guilty pleasure. Disney's really hokey attempt to rip off Star Trek, but with the twist that the whole crew of the starship are teens and early twenties. Disney has yet to release this made-for-TV movie on any media or platform; only available via pirate VHS recordings from the TV broadcasts. Come on Disney+, this deserves a streaming release.

Review by Comrie ★★½

not an awful idea

semi-generational ship

the computer being the mind of the old captain's ex is weird (futurama was inspired by this?)

feels weirdly like space seaquest dsv at times

Review by J.D. Giesbrecht ★★★★

I wore out my taped from TV VHS copy of this movie.

Revisiting it, I think the story still holds up pretty well. Great soundtrack, physical effects that are still interesting. I was only 6 when this came out, in many ways it ignited my love for Sci-Fi.

Too bad it’s never had an official release, though maybe it’s better left watched through the hazy standard-def warmth of nostalgia.

Review by Brandon Claus ★★★★

This gets 4 stars just for being so nostalgic for me.  Disneys run at competing with Star Trek.  Rewatched off my VHS tape that was recorded off tv in 1988.  Doesn't get much better than that.  You can also watch on YouTube.  I don't believe it ever got a DVD release.

Review by Tyler Featherstone ★★★

In a future where mankind has depleted and polluted the Earth beyond repair, the government has no choice but to send their brightest cadets out into the stars, searching for a new, habitable world.

Nice spaceship model work (though that one scene does get used a bit much) mixes with some other dodgy effects to create "Earth Star Voyager," a two part television movie shown on "The Wonderful World of Disney" back in the day. It never realized its hopes of making it to series, or even gott an official release on home media.

It stays pretty straight forward for the most part, tackling issues that pop up on long space voyages like forced reproduction (a few core members of…

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US made-for-tv film ( 1988 ). Marstar Productions, Walt Disney Television (see Disney on Television ) . Created and written by Ed Spielman. Directed by James Goldstone. Cast includes Peter Donat, Brian McNamara, Lynette Mettey, Jason Michas, Julia Montgomery and Duncan Regehr. Two 96-minute parts. Colour.

Earth is becoming uninhabitable due to Pollution (see Disaster ), but a probe from a vanished Spaceship , the Vanguard Explorer, had identified a possibly habitable planet, Demeter, 18.7 light years away. The Earth Star Voyager is built and, in 2088, departs to discover whether Demeter could house an evacuated humanity (see Colonization of Other Worlds ). The journey will take 26 years: so, save for the Captain, the crew will be teenagers; Cryogenics will also reduce their ageing by a third. They are high-achieving cadets, including Dr. Sally Arthur (Montgomery), Jessie Bienstock (Michas) and Jonathan Hays (McNamara). They are sent on their way by war hero Admiral Beasley (Donat).

The voyage out is eventful: the Captain is murdered early on, so Hays is promoted; they discover they are being shadowed by another spaceship; Captain Jacob Brown (Regehr) of the Vanguard Explorer , who had fled a mutiny, is found and becomes the inexperienced Hays's adviser – then they are lured to an outpost of the Outlaw Technologies Zone (OTZ). The OTZ once controlled half the Earth, with ambitions to conquer the rest, but had eventually been defeated (see War ): their outpost was supposed to have been destroyed by Admiral Beasley. A search party is captured, but fortunately the OTZ choose their leader through trial by combat: Brown throws down a challenge and wins, so they escape.

They find and board the wreck of the Vanguard Explorer, discovering an OTZ "Shell" (a Cyborg ) aboard. Though he initially attacks them – at one point temporarily damaging Priscilla (Mettey), Earth Star Voyager 's AI – Dr Arthur's compassion compels him to defy his programming, though it kills him. Before it does, he explains there are 2,780 other Shells, who have been "moved to Assembly". Assembly is a collection of OTZ ships located around twin suns, using their solar power to join into a giant ship – with Earth Star Voyager intended as the centrepiece. Beasley now contacts the Earth Star Voyager: he is responsible for most of what has happened to them. He intends to leave the Earth to its fate, arguing only the fittest deserve to go to Demeter: that is why Earth Star Voyager is crewed by the best of the best – they will colonize the planet (see Eugenics ), the OTZ being tools to be discarded. Hays is having none of this, focusing the twin suns' energy through a solar laser (see Rays ) to destroy the Assembly ships and using a railgun (see Weapons ) built by Brown to damage Beasley's ship. Earth Star Voyager continues on its mission. Beasley, not without admiration, says they will meet again (in an alternate ending this is apparently omitted, but has Beasley revealed as a cyborg).

The OTZ have similarities to, but predate, Star Trek: The Next Generation 's Borg. The films were originally planned as a two-part pilot for a never-commissioned television series. Flat performances, lifeless action scenes and sheer length hinder ingredients that might have made – with a tighter, shorter script and more vigour – a reasonably exciting work. [SP]

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"What is this? The Good Ship Kindergarten?" — Captain Jacob Dryden Brown , upon meeting the crew of the Earth Star Voyager'

Earth☆Star Voyager is a Pilot Movie that originally aired as a 2-part miniseries on ABC 's The Disney Sunday Movie in January 1988. It focuses on a group of over-achieving young people from a late 21st century Crapsack Earth as they trek through the stars to find a new home for the human race. Along the way, the crew has to deal with the usual dangers of TV space travel, along with the drama and awkwardness typical of being a teenager or a young adult on television.

As considerable Artistic License is taken with the science, its nature as a soft science fiction keeps the show accessible to its younger viewers.

The miniseries was actually nominated for two primetime Emmys for sound editing and sound mixing.

Even though the series was never picked up, the miniseries has developed a small but vocal fanbase. Disney almost refuses to admit that this miniseries ever existed, so don't look for an official DVD release (or any kind of release, for that matter). If you look hard enough on the Internet, though, you should be able to find a copy.

NOT to be confused with that certain other TV series named Voyager (which is probably a contributor to Disney wanting to bury the nascent series in the long term).

• Brian McNamara as Jonathan Hays, Command Specialist: Age 21.
• Jason Michas as Jessie "Beanie" Bienstock, Computer Sciences: Age 14.
• Julia Montgomery as Dr. Sally Arthur, M.D., Space Medicine: Age 24.
• Tom Bresnahan as Huxley Welles, Navigation: Age 18.
• Dinah Gaston as Lani Miyori, Communication: Age 16.
• Margaret Langrick as Luz Sansone, Communication: Age 15.
• Bruce Harwood as Dr. Leland Eugene, M.D., Psychiatrist: Age 22.
• Duncan Regehr as Jacob Brown, Former Commander, Vanguard Explorer: Age 36.

This show provides examples of:

• '80s Hair : Multiple characters have this.
• Absent Aliens : Although "Beanie" is well-known for his interest in extraterrestrials, there is no evidence in the mini-series that humans have yet encountered sentient alien life.
• Aliens Steal Cable : At one point, Voyager catches up with some old radio waves.
• Aloof Big Brother : Mixed with Big Brother Bully to a frightening extreme with Vance, who doesn't even seem to recognize Sally as his sister (or if he does, doesn't care at all for her well-being).
• Amusement Park of Doom : The Outlaw Technology Zone has turned Expo Tomorrow (the 2020 World's Fair) into one of these, with elements of Circus of Fear thrown in for variety.
• From the ' running elastic through the universe ' analogy on how the Bauman Drive works, it seems that the drive is capable of allowing them to mimic FTL travel via Extradimensional Shortcut .
• Artistic License – Military : The decision to not arm the Voyager before her flight (but store the components for the heavy laser weapons aboard for later assembly), and give the crew only personal defense weapons. Sending any crew unarmed on what is basically a pathfinder mission through uncharted space on a twenty-six year mission with known enemies out there (even if it was said that the OTZ was defeated) because "Voyager is on a peaceful mission of exploration makes ZERO sense. Of course, that was all part of Admiral Beasley's Evil Plan ...
• Attack Its Weak Point : How Brown was able to defeat Vance in combat. He was, after all, the one who taught him how to build a force-field generator, and knew how to disable it.
• Beard of Barbarism : Captain Brown has one of these after being marooned alone on Blue Star Gamma for 6 years.
• BFG : The Rail Gun and the Solar Laser.
• Big Eater : Bienie.
• The Big Guy : Whistestick appears to be a major champion among the OTZ warriors - but when he challenges Vance for leadership and is defeated, he's jailed with the Voyager's crew. He escapes with them and becomes a part of the crew, because it's implied that that his fate under Vance would have been unpleasant.
• Big Red Button : On the Handy Remote Control for the homemade railgun.
• Blood Sport : the 'Games' that the OTZ warriors engage in at Expo Tomorrow. They are used for training the warriors, for leadership challenges, and (as Vance found out) punishment for failure.
• Bodyguard Betrayal : Kinda should have seen it coming that among a group of geek types, the traitor would be the gym coach, Brody .
• Jacob Brown was the commander of the ill-fated Vanguard Explorer
• Jonathan Hayes takes over as commanding officer of the Voyager, following Captain Forbes.
• Cavalry Betrayal : Admiral Beasley shows up and turns out to be the mastermind behind the whole thing, planning to start the human race over on the newly discovered planet with the young, brainy crew.
• The Charmer : Huxley
• Chekhov's Gun : a relationship example, where Sally talks about being attracted to an older man in Part 1, and begins to fall for the older Jacob in Part 2.
• Cliffhanger : The first part ends with one of these, while Jacob Brown and Vance fight to the death .
• The Captain : Captain Forbes, then Jonathan Hayes
• Number Two : Originally Jonathan, then Jacob Brown
• The Medic : Sally Arthur
• Ace Pilot : Huxley Welles
• The Navigator: Luz Sansone
• The Computer: Priscilla
• The Smart Guy : Jesse "Bienie" Bienstock
• The Shrink: Leland Eugene (Blame his parents)
• Captain's Log : Why Jacob wants to go back to the remains of the Vanguard Explorer , to retrieve the records that show his first Officer Vance led the mutiny that caused the loss of his ship.
• Cool Big Brother : Jonathan to Bienie, and Jacob to Jonathan. Subverted when Sally learns that her brother Vance mutinied and destroyed the Vanguard Explorer .
• Cool Ship : The titular vessel and the Assembly.
• Crapsack World : Earth is sinking into this, and Expo Tomorrow is Thunderdome IN SPACE! !!!!!
• Cyborg : For some reason called "Shells" in the world of Earth Star Voyager. One of them is hiding on the wreck of the Vanguard Explorer. Even Admiral Beasley seems to be one at the end.
• Dark and Troubled Past : Jacob Brown is very tight-lipped about what happened on board the Vanguard Explorer, until Vance turns up as a Big Bad out for revenge against Brown .
• Date My Avatar : The film plays this trope straight, but in reverse chronological order from usual. Priscilla is the ship's computer, a large box of plastics and metals. Thus, Huxley is simply annoyed when she falls in love with him. However, when she shows him the picture of the Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter that her personality was based on (possibly recorded from), he's amazed that a woman who looks like that would go for him. (Which doesn't change the fact that this Priscilla is, and always has been, plastics and metal.)
• Diabolical Mastermind : Admiral Beasley is revealed to be one of these.
• Earth That Used to Be Better : The Earth of 2088 is a world of acid rain and only partially breathable air. Jonathan and Beanie give an old woman a strange look after she says how she'll be "as right as rain" as soon as she catches her breath.
• Embarrassing First Name : Dr. L. Eugene is not happy being named Leland. He'd rather be called "Dr. Eugene" to avoid using his name.
• Everyone Can See It : Beanie and Luz. Lani gently teases her about it when the crew learns that the Voyager is a Generation Ship - and Luz's gaze makes it clear she's interested. At the end of the the movie, even the computer comments on it, and they become an Official Couple .
• Evil Overlord : Vance Arthur sets him self up as "Top Dog" of Expo Tomorrow.
• Exty Years from Publication : The main action of the film is set in 2088, exactly 100 years from the year the movie aired.
• Family-Unfriendly Death : For a Disney movie, it features a surprisingly high body count and violence.
• A Father to His Men : Captain Jacob Brown and Captain Forbes.
• Future Food Is Artificial : Earth food of the future includes "Veggie Bioburgers" with optional "Amino Sauce", "Thermachips", and "Nutrishakes" with or without "Biocyclene". The characters are eating what looks like a seaweed patty with rice cakes for buns.
• Generation Ship : The Voyager is designed to act as one of these for its 26-year mission.
• Graceful Loser : Admiral Beasley takes his defeat rather well—in fact, he seems quite impressed—and sees Jonathan as a Worthy Opponent that he looks forward to facing again.
• Handy Remote Control : Jacob Brown builds one for his railgun, complete with a Big Red Button . Too bad it doesn't work!
• Heroic Rematch : Jacob Brown vs. Vance Arthur. Brown loses his ship when Vance leads the successful mutiny, but then defeats Vance in hand-to-hand combat on Expo Tomorrow.
• Human Popsicle : the crew has "cryo-sleep chambers" to slow the aging process during the voyage. They don't look particularly chilly, though.
• I Know Mortal Kombat : Jonathan has the skills necessary to manually pilot the ship through the Junk Belt because he played Dodgems ( a.k.a. bumper cars ) when he was 7 years old.
• Informed Ability : The OTZ is spoken of like it's a major threat to Earth, and Willie (one of Brown's rescued shipmates) tells him (just before they're all captured on Expo Tomorrow) "This is the Outlaw Technology Zone. They know EVERYTHING." However, all we see is the 'Thunderdome-chic' surface and the warriors, and are told that the laboratories and other research areas are located underground.
• The Lancer : Jacob Brown.
• Likes Older Men : Ship's doctor Sally mentions to Jonathan in Part 1 that she had a crush on her math teacher during her first year at the academy. She is also clearly attracted to Jacob Brown in Part 2. She's 24. He's 36.
• Love Triangle : One develops among Jonathan, Sally and Jacob.
• Lucky Charms Title : Earth☆Star Voyager
• Given that Priscilla is the personality of a woman in her late 30's, and Huxley is either 18 or 19, does that make the computer a cougar?
• Priscilla also proves in the end to be completely aware of the feelings Bienie has developed for Luz; when playing back the reconstructed data received via long-range telescope array from Demeter, she playfully inserts some footage she made herself of Bienie and Luz walking hand in hand through the Demeter countryside, officially outing their budding relationship to the whole ship (most of whom were aware already anyway).
• Pilot Movie : given away by the opening Title Sequence that gives you the name, position, and age of each member of the Command Roster .
• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil : Vance, who was First Officer under Jacob Brown on the Vanguard Explorer before leading a successful mutiny against Brown in the opening scene. This is assuming he wasn't already evil, in which case he would be a Deceptive Disciple . The miniseries simply doesn't give us enough background on the reason for the mutiny to settle this.
• Robo Sexual : Priscilla actually suggests this for her and Huxley's 'relationship': Brown: (speaking about Priscilla) Well - maybe the real one will be waiting when you get back to Earth. Huxley: Yeah - that'd be just what I need. Brown: Did you ever meet Priscilla Bowman? Huxley: ( warily ) No... Priscilla: ( seductively ) Would you like to, Huxley? (Priscilla's human face appears on the main screen) Huxley: ( stunned at her beauty ) That's Priscilla? ...and she loves me? And she wants me? Priscilla: ( in the same tone as before ) ...And that's only my picture , Huxley. (Huxley lets off a short, stunned gasp of disbelief)
• Case in point: Their final destination is about 20 light years away, and the trip is expected to take about 13 years. Suppose the events of the movie take place over a 2 month period. After 2 months, they've reached a binary star system, which can be no closer than 4 light years if "Twin Suns" is indeed Alpha Centauri. So...they went 20% of the way in 2 months, but they need more than 12 years to go the final 80%?
• Also, space station Blue Star Gamma, Expo Tomorrow, and the wreck of the Vanguard Explorer must all be relatively near to each other.
• The signals mentioned in the Aliens Steal Cable example would have passed Demeter decades before the story.
• Spaceship Girl : Priscilla, in the " brain wedge " sense.
• Spanner in the Works : How Admiral Beasley reacts to Brown's appearance - and has actually seen him all along, if you consider that he planed for Brown to be killed or imprisoned after Vance took over the Vanguard Explorer .
• Stock Footage : Almost every pass of the ship is recycled over and over and over. Doesn't help that almost every shot is reused for the credits.
• Teen Genius : Over half of the crew, it would seem.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! : Some starship crewmembers have nicknames like "Beanie" Bienstock. Dr. Leland Eugene insists to be called "Dr. Eugene", partly due to his Embarrassing First Name .
• Thrown Out the Airlock : Brody does this to Captain Forbes . He also got the same when he got into a fight with Jonathan after sabotaging the railgun .
• Time-Passage Beard : Captain Brown starts off clean shaven, and then is marooned alone on a space station for 6 years. When he is found by the Earth Star Voyager, he sports Wild Hair and a Beard of Barbarism . After he cleans up nicely , he decides to keep a neatly trimmed beard. Since Brown is at least 10 years older than everyone else on the ship, the beard helps to reinforce that he is A Father to His Men . It also makes him the Cool Old Guy .
• Touch of the Monster : Inexplicably played completely straight (in 1988!), when the Shell cyborg captures Sally and carries her to an escape capsule for reasons never made clear.
• Uptight Loves Wild : the dynamic that seems to exist between Sally and Brown. It's also present between the playful supercomputer Priscilla and the surprisingly uptight (around her) Huxley.
• Vancouver : Was shot entirely on location there, with a fair number of the actors being Canadian. Some parts were filmed in the Soviet Pavilion built for Expo '86, the outside of Expo Tomorrow is Science World, and the glass-roofed hallway outside the ship's bridge was the BC Pavilion, which is now the Edgewater Casino.
• Vehicle Title
• We Are Everywhere : The Outlaw Technology Zone, which at one point controlled nearly half the Earth, but was ultimately defeated and kicked off the planet. The OTZ seems to have operatives all over the place.
• What Have We Ear? : Huxley is a reasonably adept amateur magician and pickpocket. It's how he steals the key that allows them to escape the OTZ cell while everyone else watches Jacob and Vance fight.
• Wild Hair : Captain Brown has this after being marooned alone on Blue Star Gamma for 6 years.
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Earth Star Voyager (1988)

Rating: ★★.

Director – James Goldstone, Teleplay – Ed Spielman, Producer – Howard Alston, Photography – Robert Stevens, Music – Lalo Schifrin, Visual Effects/Miniatures – Boss Film Corporation, Production Design – John F. De Cuir, Jr.. Production Company – Marstar Productions, Inc/Disney Television.

Brian McNamara (Commander Jonathan Hays), Duncan Regehr (Captain Jacob Brown), Julia Montgomery (Dr Sally Arthur), Jason Michas (Jessie ‘Beanie’ Bienstock), Tom Breznahan (Huxley Wells), Margaret Langrick (Luz Sanstone), Peter Donat (Admiral Beasley), Bruce Harwood (Dr Leland Eugene), Sean O’Byrne (Vance Arthur), Ric Reid (Captain Forbes), Henry Kingi (The Shell), Dinah Gaston (Lani Miyori), Frank C. Turner (Willy), Andrew Kavadas (Brody Arnold)

The year 2088. A group of young freshly graduated recruits are selected for a mission – to man the spaceship Earth Star Voyager on a twenty-six year mission to travel to and explore the earth-like planet Demeter orbiting Berenson’s Star as a possible home to relocate humanity away from a polluted Earth. Soon out onto the mission, the middle-aged Captain Forbes is accidentally ejected from an airlock accident and young Commander Jonathan Hays must step in to become the new captain. They encounter the abandoned ship Vanguard Explorer and rescue its’ still alive captain Jacob Brown who joins the Voyager crew. The Vanguard Explorer was attacked by the Outlaw Technology Zone, rebels who use illicit technologies and have converted most of the crew into cyborg Shells. As the journey continues, it appears that the OTZ is closely following the Voyager with the intent of claiming them too.

Earth Star Voyager was a tv mini-series that aired on the Disney Channel. It was originally made to air in a four-hour timeslot. The story is clearly intended in an open-ended way that Disney were hoping to spin off as a subsequent series, although it failed to garner the ratings to go any further than that.

Earth Star Voyager aired four months after the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94). Both shows come in the same vein, following a crew on a long interstellar voyage aboard a ship – there is the almost certain probability that Earth Star Voyager was intended to jump aboard the bandwagon of a resurgence in televised space opera that it was seen that The Next Generation was heralding. One became an instant classic and a huge hit and the other has been relegated to little more than a forgotten footnote.

One of the reasons that Earth Star Voyager failed to go to series was that the pitch seems to have been the unappealing idea of ‘teenagers in space’. While this is dealt with via a clever justification – they are chosen young because of the length of the mission – it becomes clear that Disney thought that the only audience for such a show would be a juvenile one, whereas Star Trek: The Next Generation (apart from the casting of the character of the much hated Wesley Crusher) made its appeal to an adult audience. Similarly, the various Star Trek series always made a point of casting the crew complement with characters of different ethnicities and later species, whereas here there is not even a single crewmember who is not white skinned or speaks with an American accent.

Everything on the show seems laughably dated. The computer displays are all dull monochrome line diagrams that take the better part of thirty seconds to load – something that must have seen cutting edge technology at the time but today seems a vision of the future that was outmoded not even ten years after Earth Star Voyager aired. By being a little more imaginative than this, by casting its designs well into the future and looking beyond the present, Star Trek: The Next Generation came up with a timeless looks that still looks futuristic when seen today.

Perhaps the one idea that the show does predict is the Borg – the cybernetically-enhanced collective that became the favourite villains of The Next Generation after memorably appearing in 1989 – with the idea of the cyborg rewired Shells. It is quite possible that The Next Generation borrowed its idea from here. The computer with the petulant female personality that develops a crush on Tom Breznahan is one groan-worthy aspect of the show; again, compare this to The Next Generation ‘s female-voiced computer that managed to avoids any of this silliness.

The main other problem is that Earth Star Voyager is not terribly interesting a mini-series. The plot takes a long-time to go anywhere. Most of the first two-thirds of it seems episodic – encounters with wild man Duncan Regehr aboard the remains of his ship and the outlaw technological crazies – but the story lacks an overall drive. We are still waiting for the show to go somewhere as the second part kicks in. Despite it being all about their setting forth into uncharted waters, most of the story seems to be about how every step of the way they keep encountering leftover expeditions or are absurdly easily followed by others. Even when the mini-series gets its story together, the villain of the show lacks much of a threat and the eventual revelation of their scheme seems improbably far-fetched.

The sets are well designed – some using real world locations that were built as exhibits for Expo 86 in Vancouver and are still tourist attractions around the city today. Where the show starts to fall down is with some of the weak model effects work, which has been poorly photographed, making the ship look like just a routine 1980s era spaceship doing endless passes of the camera every time we see it.

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8 Alpha Quadrant Things Star Trek: Voyager Found In Delta Quadrant

• Star Trek: Voyager finds familiar things from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant, sparking important questions and connections.
• Encounter with Ferengi negotiators leads Voyager crew to stop their interference in a pre-warp civilization for profits.
• Janeway and crew discover humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s living in the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart.

For a show with the conceit of being so far from home, Star Trek: Voyager found a surprising number of things in the Delta Quadrant that originated in the Alpha Quadrant, including several from Earth itself. The USS Voyager, commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and Commander Chakotay's (Robert Beltran) Maquis raider Val Jean were both brought to the Delta Quadrant in 2371 by the Caretaker (Basil Langton). After Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array to save the Ocampa , Voyager and the Val Jean were left without a ticket back to the Alpha Quadrant, and banded together to make the long journey.

Finding something familiar in an otherwise totally alien corner of the galaxy brought a sense of familiarity to the USS Voyager crew and viewers at home alike, but the presence of something from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant inevitably raised important questions , like how familiar people and objects traveled 70,000 light years from home in the first place, and whether the find could lead Captain Kathryn Janeway towards a quicker path home to Earth.

Star Trek: Voyagers 20 Best Episodes Ranked

A pair of ferengi negotiators, arridor and kol, star trek: voyager season 3, episode 5 "false profits".

The USS Voyager encounters a pair of Ferengi negotiators, Arridor (Dan Shor) and Kol (Leslie Jordan), who claim to be the prophesied Great Sages of the Takarians, a society with Bronze Age level technology. The Ferengi have no Prime Directive to deter them from interfering with the Takarians' development , so they're performing "miracles" with a standard replicator to reap the monetary benefits of the Takarians' worship. Voyager's crew know the Ferengi reputation well enough to know they're no Sages, so they must figure out how to put a stop to Arridor and Kol's grift.

"False Profits" serves as a Star Trek sequel episode to Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 8 "The Price", as Voyager catches up with Arridor and Kol (formerly played by J. R. Quinonez) seven years after their Delta Quadrant arrival. The Ferengi took a test flight through the supposedly stable wormhole near Barzan II, which was supposed to emerge in the Gamma Quadrant, but instead stranded the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant, where they made the best of their situation as only Ferengi can.

Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 23 "Distant Origin"

"Distant Origin" opens on Forra Gegen (Henry Woronicz), a scientist who discovers that his people, the Voth, share certain genetic similarities with the humans aboard the USS Voyager. While this confirms Gegen's theory that the Voth are the descendants of a species brought to their homeworld millions of years ago , religious leader Minister Odala (Concetta Tomei) refuses to accept the truth. Even with Commander Chakotay present as a living specimen of humanity, Odala pushes Gegen to recant, because Gegen's theory goes against the Voth Doctrine that keeps Odala in power.

After meeting Gegen's assistant, Tova Veer (Christopher Liam Moore), Janeway and the Doctor use the holodeck as a research guide to extrapolate how hadrosaurs might look in the 24th century if they'd been able to evolve into a humanoid form with comparable intelligence. The result resembles Veer, so Janeway and the Doctor conclude, like Gegen, that the Voth evolved from hadrosaurs into a highly advanced species on Earth , then fled to the Delta Quadrant in spacefaring vessels instead of being wiped out with the other dinosaurs.

The Friendship One Probe

Star trek: voyager season 7, episode 21 "friendship one".

By Star Trek: Voyager season 7 , the USS Voyager is in regular contact with Starfleet Command, and Starfleet gives Voyager a mission to retrieve a 21st-century Earth probe, Friendship One . The probe proves difficult to find, but once discovered on an alien planet suffering devastating climate collapse, the implications of Friendship One's launch become clear. Besides the irreversible damage to the planet's climate, the inhabitants are all suffering from radiation sickness, and bear understandable hostility towards Earth, because the aliens believe humans orchestrated their destruction with the Friendship One probe.

The United Earth Space Probe Agency was one of the early names for the organization the USS Enterprise belongs to in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Charlie X".

Friendship One was launched in 2067 by the United Earth Space Probe Agency with the intention of making friends with whomever found it, as the name implies. Although Friendship One, the 400-year-old Earth probe, traveled for centuries carrying messages of peace, musical recordings, and ways to translate languages, the people who discovered Friendship One in the Delta Quadrant took a greater interest in the antimatter it used to travel across space. Without the proper knowledge of its use, antimatter proved devastating to the planet and its people, resulting in death and disease for generations.

Dreadnought, a Cardassian Missile

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 17 "dreadnought".

The USS Voyager discovers a dangerously powerful, self-guided Cardassian missile in the Delta Quadrant, which Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) recognizes as one nicknamed "Dreadnought" . When B'Elanna was with the Maquis, Torres had actually reprogrammed the missile herself, with the intention of turning the Cardassians' own weapon against them. Without a Cardassian target in sight, the artificially intelligent Cardassian Dreadnought targets a heavily-populated Class-M planet , Rakosa V. B'Elanna determines she must be the one to keep Dreadnought from hurting anyone else, and boards the missile to convince it to stand down.

While no concrete reason is given for exactly how the Dreadnought wound up in the Delta Quadrant, its last known location in the Alpha Quadrant was the Badlands, the same rough patch of space where Voyager and the Val Jean, Chakotay's Maquis raider, fatefully met. Because of this, Torres theorizes that Dreadnought arrived in the Delta Quadrant the same way that Voyager and the Val Jean did , courtesy of the Caretaker.

Star Trek: Voyagers BElanna Is More Klingon Than TNGs Worf Ever Was

A klingon d-7 class cruiser, complete with klingons, star trek: voyager, season 7, episode 14 "prophecy".

The USS Voyager certainly never expected to find a Klingon ship in the Delta Quadrant, but more surprising is the fact that the crew of the Klingon D-7 Class Cruiser believes their savior, the prophesied kuvah'magh, is aboard Voyager . Janeway assures the Klingon captain, Kohlar (Wren T. Brown), that the Federation and Klingon Empire have been allies for the past 80 years, and offers Voyager's own half-Klingon, Lt. B'Elanna Torres, as proof their societies are working together now. The kuvah'magh is Torres' unborn daughter, who does save the Klingons, but not the way they expected.

Centuries ago, Kohlar's great-grandfather set off on a quest to find the kuvah'magh, and the Klingon D-7 Cruiser became a generation ship that is now crewed by the descendants of its original crew . The quest begun by Kohlar's great-grandfather brought Kohlar and his crew to the Delta Quadrant after four generations of searching. Whether B'Elanna's child is actually the kuvah'magh or not, Kohlar desperately wants the baby to be their savior, so that his people may finally rest.

Amelia Earhart

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 1 "the 37s".

The discovery of a 1936 Ford truck, seemingly disconnected from any parent vehicle, leads the USS Voyager to a nearby Class-L planet, where they find eight humans who have been in cryo-stasis since they were abducted by aliens in the 1930s. Among them are one of Janeway's personal heroes, legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) , who disappeared without a trace while attempting to fly around the world, and Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan (David Graf). Earhart and the other preserved humans are known by the planet's inhabitants as "The 37s", and revered as sacred.

Originally thought to be aliens, the natives of the unnamed planet are the descendants of humans. A species called the Briori abducted the natives' ancestors, along with Earhart and the other 37s, from Earth centuries earlier , and took them to the Delta Quadrant. Once held as slaves, the humans who weren't in stasis revolted to free themselves from the Briori, and developed a thriving, Earth-like civilization in the Delta Quadrant. Voyager's crew consider staying with the humans in their little slice of home, while Janeway also offers a ride back to Earth to anyone who wants it, including Amelia Earhart.

The USS Equinox

Star trek: voyager season 5, episode 26 & season 6, episode 1 "equinox".

The crew of the USS Voyager believe they're the only Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant until they find the USS Equinox, five years into their journey home. Captain Rudolph Ransom (John Savage) and the Equinox crew have had a harder time in the Delta Quadrant than Voyager, with more damage, fewer starting resources, and fewer opportunities to make friends along the way. Ransom's survival tactics include sacrificing innocent nucleogenic life forms for a more efficient form of fuel, which Janeway finds hard to stomach, and decides that Ransom needs to be held accountable for defying Federation ideals, regardless of how badly the Equinox is damaged.

Although Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) suggests that the Equinox might be in the Delta Quadrant on a rescue mission to find Voyager, the USS Equinox's specs don't fit the profile of a starship that would be assigned to a long-range mission. The explanation of how the Equinox arrived in the Delta Quadrant in the first place seems fairly simple, because Captain Ransom tells Janeway that the Equinox was also abducted by the Caretaker , just like Voyager, but the Equinox has only been in the Delta Quadrant for 2 years, and Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array 5 years earlier.

Seven of Nine

Debuts in star trek: voyager season 4, episode 1 "scorpion, part 2".

When Captain Kathryn Janeway allies with the Borg in order to secure safe passage across Borg space, Janeway refuses the cursory assimilation that the Borg want to use to communicate with Janeway and Voyager's crew, and instead requests a speaker for the Borg, citing the existence of Locutus (Patrick Stewart) as precedent. Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, is selected as the Borg drone to act as liaison between the Collective and Voyager, likely because Seven of Nine had once been a member of Species 5168, like most of Voyager's crew -- in other words, human.

Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey.

After Seven's link with the Collective is severed, more information about Seven's human origin comes to light. In Voyager season 4, episode 6 "The Raven", when Voyager nears the Hansens' ship, the USS Raven, memories of Seven's early life surface, revealing that Seven had been six-year-old human Annika Hansen , the daughter of Magnus Hansen (Kirk Baily) and Erin Hansen (Laura Stepp), Federation scientists who were studying the Borg when they were assimilated. Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey, showing the Raven arriving in the Delta Quadrant by following a Borg Cube through a transwarp conduit.

10 Ways USS Voyager Changed In Star Treks Delta Quadrant

Star Trek: Voyager links back to the greater Star Trek universe with people and starships from the Alpha Quadrant. Connections to the familiar were especially important early on, because Voyager 's place in the Star Trek franchise was established and aided by the legitimacy these finds offered. Later, when the USS Voyager used the Hirogen communications array to communicate with Starfleet Command, links back to the Alpha Quadrant were plentiful again, not only to prove that the USS Voyager was closer to home, but to help Star Trek: Voyager maintain connections to Star Trek and carry the franchise in its final years.

Star Trek: Voyager is available to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Voyager

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Michael Piller, Rick Berman

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 and are nasa’s oldest and most distant robotic space travelers. an issue with voyager 1’s code that began in november meant the spacecraft was unable to send back data from interstellar space. after some creative engineering to find a solution, voyager teams got the first usable data from the spacecraft on april 20..

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Cheers and applause erupted this weekend when NASA’ s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back the first usable data from interstellar space after a five-month communication gap. 

Engineers with Voyager's flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California , have been troubleshooting an issue since November , when the spacecraft, more than 15.1 billion miles from Earth, began sending back nonsense computer code.

On Saturday, after 45 hours of waiting to find out if their plan to send the problem code elsewhere on the spacecraft’s computer would work, the team got its response. 

NASA ENGINEERS HAVE RENEWED HOPE TO FIX HOBBLED VOYAGER 1 AFTER INTERSTELLAR SPACE DATA OUTAGE

"For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems," NASA JPL said in a blog. "The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again."

Earlier this year, NASA engineers honed in on one of three computers on the spacecraft, known as the Flight Data System (FDS), as the cause behind the communication problem. 

An artist's concept of Voyager 1 entering interstellar space, or the space between the stars. Interstellar space is filled with plasma, ionized gas (shown as a brownish haze here), that was cast off by giant stars millions of years ago, NASA said.

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"Its role is to basically collect all of the data from the science instruments and the spacecraft, package them all neatly up and send them back to the Earth," Voyager Program scientist Linda Spilker told FOX Weather in mid-March. 

Eventually, the team discovered that the problem was a single chip responsible for storing part of the computer’s memory, including some of its software code. 

According to NASA, the team decided to place the problem code elsewhere in the computer’s memory. However, no single location has enough space to hold the code section, so the code was divided into sections and sent to different places on the FDS.

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On April 18, the team sent the first section of code responsible for packaging the spacecraft’s engineering data. It takes 22.5 hours to send a radio signal with the repair to Voyager 1 and another 22.5 hours to receive a signal back to Earth. 

Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) are seen in images taken by Voyager 2. ( )

A artist's concept showing the general locations of Voyager 1 (object in brownish-orange region) and Voyager 2 (object in gray-blue region). (NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal)

This illustration shows the positions of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes outside the heliosphere, the region surrounding our star, beyond which interstellar space begins. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ( )

10-28-80 Washington: Image of Saturn taken by the Voyager Spacecraft at a distance of 21.1 million miles. Color enhanced by NASA ( )

Timeline of Voyager 2's travels ( )

"When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on April 20, they saw that the modification worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft," NASA said.

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This isn’t the first scare for either of NASA's twin interstellar spacecraft, which started as a 5-year mission and has now been operating for 46 years.

Another issue with garbled data for Voyager 1 in 2022 was fixed over several months. In 1981, the team experienced a similar communication issue to the current problem.

Voyager 2 is currently operating normally more than 12.6 billion miles from Earth. Last year, an incorrect command sent Voyager 2 pointing away from Earth , preventing it from sending back data. Teams were able to send a patch and reorient the spacecraft. 

In the coming weeks, more commands will be sent to relocate Voyager 1's problem code and adjust the FDS software. Eventually, the spacecraft will begin returning science data.

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After five months of glitching, the spacecraft is talking to Earth again from interstellar space

The Voyager 1 spacecraft (illustrated) is back online after a few months of transmitting garbled data. It’s now poised to continue its exploration of interstellar space.

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April 26, 2024 at 11:45 am

After months of challenging trouble-shooting and suspenseful waiting, Voyager 1 is once again talking to Earth.

The aging NASA spacecraft, about 24 billion kilometers from home, began transmitting garbled data in November. On April 20, NASA scientists got the probe back online after uploading new flight software to work around a chunk of onboard computer memory that had failed. They’re now receiving data about the spacecraft’s health and hope to hear from its science instruments again in a few weeks, says Suzanne Dodd, the mission’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

That means the iconic craft could be on a path to recovery — and to continue its exploration of interstellar space.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 briefly visited Jupiter and Saturn before eventually departing the solar system. It and its twin, Voyager 2, are the longest-operating space probes, now tasked with studying far-flung solar particles and cosmic rays. In particular, the probes have been monitoring the changing of the sun’s magnetic field and the density of plasma beyond the solar system, yielding information about the farthest reaches of the sun’s influence .

“The spacecraft is really remarkable in its longevity. It’s incredible,” Dodd says. “We want to keep Voyager going as long as possible so we have this time record of these changes.”

Voyager 1 and 2, cruising along diverging paths, made history by crossing the heliopause in 2012 and 2018 , respectively ( SN: 9/12/13; SN: 12/10/18 ). At nearly 18 billion kilometers from the sun, that’s long been considered the outer extent of our star’s magnetic field and the solar wind, the boundary before interstellar space.

Since then, Dodd says, the science team has made some surprising findings ( SN: 11/4/19 ). For one, they’ve determined that the heliosphere, the huge bubble of space dominated by the solar wind, might not be spherical but have one or two tails, making it shaped like a comet or a croissant.

And thanks to Voyager, scientists now know that, despite expectations otherwise, the sun’s magnetic field and charged particles actually remain significant even beyond the heliopause, says David McComas, a Princeton University astrophysicist not involved in the mission.

Some theories predicted a serene environment in the distant oceans of interstellar space, but the Voyagers keep passing through waves of charged particles, indicating that the solar magnetic field still holds some sway there. What’s more, the probes’ data have shown how ripples in the field form bubbles at the edge of the solar system, which is more frothy and dynamic than expected.

Other missions have begun building on Voyager’s solar physics research. These include NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, and the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, which is set to launch next year. Earth-orbiting IBEX has been measuring high-energy particles to map the heliosphere for 15 years, whereas IMAP will orbit between the sun and Earth, giving it an uninterrupted view of the sun as it monitors the galactic cosmic rays that manage to filter through the heliosphere.

“There’s a huge synergy between the Voyagers and both IBEX and IMAP,” says McComas, principal investigator of the latter two missions. “We were all really scared when Voyager 1 stopped phoning home.”

It will be decades until another mission could accomplish what the Voyagers have done. NASA’s New Horizons soared by Pluto in 2015 and kept going ( SN:8/9/18 ). It’s heading toward the edge of the solar system, but it’s cruising slowly and will run out of power before it can collect data beyond the heliopause.

The Voyagers can fly forever, but power for their instruments is waning. Over the next few years, NASA will shut some down to conserve energy for the rest.

That means Voyager 1’s days of collecting science data are numbered. “It’s a very beloved mission,” Dodd says. “It’s humanity’s spacecraft, and we need to take care of it.”

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Netflix's Korean dystopian sci-fi series Goodbye Earth features a talented cast who must tell the story of their character's final days on Earth.

• Get ready for an emotional rollercoaster as "Goodbye Earth" explores the final days of humanity with a stellar cast led by Ahn Eun-jin.
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Netflix's Goodbye Earth explores the final days of life on Earth as we know it, and its cast of actors is responsible for bringing this action-packed but emotional series to the screen. The South Korean dystopian sci-fi series, based on the novel of the same name by Kōtarō Isaka, stars Ahn Eun-jin, Yoo Ah-in, Jeon Sung-woo, Kim Yoon-hye , and a variety of supporting actors as a society about to fall apart. Each character must decide how they will spend their final days, and this premise means Goodbye Earth requires the best performances these actors can muster.

Directed by Jung Sung-joo and released by Netflix on April 26, 2024 , Goodbye Earth sees a community on the Korean Peninsula get the news that an asteroid will make an impact on the Earth in only 200 days. South Korea and the rest of the world quickly fall to pieces. Criminals escape prison, government officials abandon their positions, and fear and skepticism rule society. The four main characters of Goodbye Earth have difficult choices to make regarding how they will live their lives, with one, a school teacher, quickly learning through the death of her student how terrible the world had become.

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Ahn eun-jin as jin se-kyung, date of birth: may 6, 1991.

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South Korean actor Ahn Eun-jin started her career on the stage, performing in a variety of plays from 2011 until 2018 when she landed her first TV role playing Lee Jeong-seon in the series Life . She has since become a prominent figure in Korean television and is best known for playing Chu Min-ha in Hospital Playlist from 2020 to 2021. Ahn gained further fame playing Lee Mi-joo in the 2023 series The Good Bad Mother and Yoo Gil-chae in My Dearest .

Ahn plays Jin Se-hyung in Goodbye Earth . She is a middle school teacher who, upon learning about the impending end of the world , makes it her goal to protect her students at all costs. In the final 300 days of humanity, she begins volunteering at the Ungcheon City Hall, determined to stay with these children " today, tomorrow, till the end ."

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Yoo Ah-in, born in South Korea, began his acting career in 2003 appearing in TV commercials but gained notoriety with his first TV role in the teen series Sharp that same year. This led to a variety of other TV roles in the coming years, including Yoo's breakout film role in the indie movie Boy of Tomorrow (2006), in which he played Jon-dae. Today, Yoo is best known for his leading roles in projects like Punch (2011) , Secret Affair (2014), and Voice of Silence (2020).

In Netflix's TV series Goodbye Earth , Yoo plays Yoon Sang-eun, Se-kung's longtime boyfriend who was working as a researcher at a biotechnology institute in the United States when the news about the end of the world went public. Sang-eun travels back to South Korea during the chaos, hoping to spend his final days with his lover.

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Kim's character in Goodbye Earth , Kang In-ah, is the commander of a combat battalion that aims to correct order to the community in the 200 days leading up to the asteroid's impact on Earth. This includes fighting against those who would take advantage of the impending doom for their own vile gain.

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Seo Ye-hwa as So Joo-yeon - The part of So Joo-yeon in Goodbye Earth is played by actor Seo Ye-hwa, best known for her roles in projects like Flower Grandpa Investigation Unit (2014), Her Private Life (2019), Backstreet Rookie (2020), and Vincenzo (2021).

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NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet

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NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.

The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft's coding to work around the trouble.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data.

It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away in interstellar space . The signal travel time is double that for a round trip.

Contact was never lost, rather it was like making a phone call where you can't hear the person on the other end, a JPL spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space — the space between star systems — since 2012. Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) away and still working fine.

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One Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Had The Cast Swimming In Their Sweat

Vasquez Rocks is located in the northern part of Los Angeles County about 25 minutes away from Downtown L.A. via the 14 freeway. It's close enough to the city to be easily accessed by car, but far away enough to look like a remote wilderness. The park's celebrated rock formations look eerie, ancient, and alien from certain angles, making it a popular place for film and TV productions going back to the 1930s.

Trekkies likely recognize Vasquez Rocks as an oft-reused filming location, serving as a variety of alien worlds for various "Star Trek" projects . The park was featured in the "Original Series" episodes "Shore Leave" (December 29, 1966), "Arena" (January 19, 1967), "The Alternative Factor" (March 30, 1967), and "Friday's Child" (December 1, 1967). Later, Vasquez Rocks would serve as Vulcan "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," released in 1983 and 1984 respectively.

Fans of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" would recognize Vasquez Rocks from the episode "Who Watches the Watchers?" (October 16, 1989), and the park would later be seen playing alien worlds in the "Star Trek: Voyager" episodes "Initiations" (September 4, 1995) and "Gravity" (February 3, 1999). It was in the "Enterprise" episode "Unexpected" (October 12, 2001). "Star Trek" characters wouldn't visit Vasquez Rocks on Earth — that is, the park wouldn't play itself — until the "Star Trek: Picard" episodes "Maps and Legends" and "The End is the Beginning," both from 2020. No natural monument is more closely tied to the franchise.

And what was shooting at Vasquez Rocks like? Horrible. In a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com , actor Michael Dante recalled playing the part of Maab in "Friday's Child," and he only remembered that Vasquez Rocks reached 117 degrees the day of filming.

Michael Dante vs. Vasquez Rocks

"Friday's Child" sees Captain Kirk (William Shatner) traveling to the planet Capella IV to negotiate a mining contract with the violent, but honorable, locals. Kirk has to convince the Capellans to give their ore to the Federation and not to a visiting Klingon (Tige Andrews) who would use it for nefarious purposes. During the negotiations, a civil war breaks out, with Maab (Dante) killing the Capellan leader and usurping the throne. Maab also wants to kill the pregnant queen Eleen (Julie Newmar) , forcing Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) to protect her. The episode features a lot of outdoor fighting, silly regal costumes, and over-the-top acting. Eleen eventually names her child after Kirk and McCoy.

Dante had to wear an outsize blonde wig to play Maab, as well as an uncomfortable-looking headpiece that covered his neck and ears (see above). The regal costumes looked to be made of disused theatre curtains and wool. As itchy as they appear, however, Dante said they were also filled with sweat:

"The weather [stands out]. It was 117 degrees at Vasquez Rocks, where we were filming. The outfits we had, they couldn't breathe. There weren't any openings in the clothing. They were all tight, with boots. I was 180 pounds at that time — and I'm still 180 pounds, which I'm very proud of — but I lost seven pounds in one day. I literally lost muscle. I looked at myself in the mirror when I got home and I said, 'I can't believe what happened.'"

Sweating too much doesn't actually reduce muscle mass, but one can indeed lose several pounds of water a day if they don't rehydrate in a hot climate. Keep the canteen full, kids.

As one can see in the above picture, Dante also had to wear giant furry boots, which are not ideal for desert hiking. What's more, the boots he wore weren't porous or vented, allowing them to catch every drop of Dante's sweat. "It was just so hot. The water was oozing out of us. Every time I'd take a step in my boots, there'd be a swooshing sound, and that was perspiration that went down to my boots," he recalled.

"Friday's Child" was written by longtime "Star Trek" luminary D.C. Fontana, who said that she wanted to write a character like Eleen who didn't want to have children. Such a conceit would have been novel on 1960s TV, and Fontana's script was kept largely intact for filming. Other writers added the Klingon character, but Eleen remained the same. Weirdly, there is a dark moment in "Friday's Child" when Dr. McCoy realizes that he needs to be more forceful and angry with Eleen in order to gain her respect. Her species values aggression, and McCoy was too gentle. To show his strength, he smacks Eleen across the face. It might be the only instance in "Star Trek" of a main character punching a pregnant woman. Perhaps ickily, it worked.

Regardless, Datne said he has rewatched his episode since the 1960s and feels that, dramatically, it holds up pretty well. He was told "Star Trek" was just a Western in space , and he played Maab accordingly. Dante retired from acting in the late 1980s and hosted a syndicated interview radio show from 1995 until 2007. He is still alive and well at 92.