Watch Star Trek Voyager Online Watch full length episodes, video clips, highlights and more. Best Voyager Episodes Season 6' title='Best Voyager Episodes Season 6' />How do you follow up one of the most beloved scifi TV shows of all time The cast and crew of Star Trek The Next Generation can answer that question in a way few in. The five best Star Trek Voyager episodes of all time For all its critics, Star Trek Voyager boasts more than a mere cult of adoring fans, but also an often overlooked set of redeeming episodes. We run down the top five chapters in Voyagers contentious TV run below. This two part episode exists to demonstrate just how bleak and unlikeable Voyager could have been if the crew gave in to their darker impulses. The USS Equinox is a Federation starship thrown across the galaxy in the same accident that stranded Voyager. Watch Playing It Cool Online Ibtimes here. Except the Equinox is demonstrably worse than Voyager in every sense of the word its an even smaller and more heavily damaged ship, run by a more desperate crew who espouse none of Captain Janeways high minded devotion to the Prime Directive. The Equinoxs rather blatantly named Captain Ransom is more than willing to torture and murder aliens in a desperate attempt to get his crew home and hes willing to destroy Voyager if they interfere, too. While the ending is a bit convenient, and Janeway has her own rather undercutting mid episode brushes with morally dubious tactics,. Voyager, for all its faults, was a story of a crew that held fast to their ideals in the face of adversity, and. The Borg reside somewhere in the Delta Quadrant. For the first time in their history, the Borg face annihilation by a superior foe. Voyager, in a convenient bit of individualistic creativity, has somehow devised a means of neutralizing Species 8. Borg need, and want, more than assimilating another Federation starship. Janeway makes the bold move to negotiate with the Borg collective for safe passage through Borg space in exchange for their tactical research a gambit that constitutes a violation of the Prime Directive, a possible death sentence for Species 8. Borg can be trusted to keep their word. A domino of double crosses sees Seven of Nine a prisoner of Voyager, the ship trapped in the outskirts of under siege Borg territory, and a new set of enemies who blame Voyager for their own first defeat. While the Borg would never again loom quite so large as antagonists,. Case in point Captain Janeway literally debating with herself over the fate of her crew because a bizarre nebula accident has made two Voyagers with two crews, and only enough antimatter fuel to save one. The ship duplication conceit lets the writers actually up the stakes more than a conventional episode would allow, killing crew members, warping storylines, and letting the bad guys in this case, the organ stealing Vidiians defeat Voyager at least once. More than once, Voyagers crew refused or even reversed a quick and easy homecoming that compromised their principles. There is no better example than. The pair is determined to change the fate of their crewmates, even if it means sacrificing their own comfortable futures, and perhaps even their lives. The solid use of flashbacks and the future tense frame story featuring a guest appearance by Captain Geordi La Forge only up the tension. In the end, to no ones surprise, the status quo is restored but the restoration was a choice made by the main characters, if only because being stranded together was better than going home alone. Year of Hell. Unfortunately, Voyager is caught in the crossfire of his time warping weapon and, by quirk, becomes the only ship immune to the continuity shifts. Annorax kidnaps Chakotay and Tom Paris in an effort to compel Voyager to submit to his timeline changes, but Janeway refuses, setting off a yearlong game of chess between Annoraxs increasingly unpredictable timeshifts and Voyagers increasingly decimated and desperate ship and crew. The temporal shifting gives the Voyager writers license to radically shake up the status quo of the cast and its relationships, making for some great character moments between Janeway and her subordinates, particularly Tuvok and Neelix. Meanwhile, Chakotay and Paris become philosophical foils debating whether Annoraxs limited time manipulations are their responsibility to stop, or is protecting or benefitting Voyager their sole concern. In the end, Janeway chooses self destruction to save Annoraxs victims, a heroic act that resets the ship and the show back to its pre episode status. A deft balance of action and personal drama, and an uncharacteristic willingness to stretch the cast and the setting into new places, make. If only the rest of the series had been so bold. Got another Voyager episode you believe deserves Top 5 status, or just want to debate the finer points of the series at large Hailing frequencies are open in the comments section. Check out these related Geekend posts Disclaimer Tech. Republic, TV. com, and Star. Trek. com are CBS brands.