So Voyager begins with the profoundest of loss and this loss is like a blanket covering every adventure and every challenge. They are disconnected from the people and institutions that are the normal background of our lives. The crew of Voyager is utterly and truly alone. The crew knows that they will be counted for dead, presumed lost and that friends, family and lovers back home will move on with their lives. And crucially, they have no way to communicate with home. Or rather, it will take their whole lives to make it back. The crew of the Voyager have been transported to the far reaches of the galaxy. Voyager breaks with all that, or tries to. But it's also always been a vision of a future in which our lives are structured in almost military like power hierarchies. ![]() ![]() The franchise has always been a fantasy about a better future, with clean technology and human rights and food replicators and the health and wealth and moral vision to explore strange new worlds in a search for knowledge. It's so good, so different from the other Star Treks. I've been working through the seven-year series streaming on the Internet. But somehow I had missed Star Trek: Voyager. I grew up with Star Trek reruns and I was an enthusiastic viewer of The Next Generation and also Deep Space Nine.
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