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DVD Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Third Season
After proving its long-term potential in season 2, Star Trek: Voyager served up some of the best episodes in its entire seven-year history. The second-season cliffhanger was intelligently resolved in "Basics, Pt. II," and the fan-favorite "Flashback" placed Tuvok (Tim Russ) aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior from Star Trek VI, under the command of Capt. Sulu (Star Trek alumnus George Takei). It was a brilliant example of interseries plotting, just as "False Profits" was a Ferengi-based sequel to the NextGen episode "The Price." The two-part time-travel scenario of "Future's End" is a Voyager highlight, with clear echoes (including dialogue lifted verbatim!) of Star Trek's classic "The City on the Edge of Forever," featuring delightful guest performances by actress-comedienne Sarah Silverman and Ed Begley Jr. Character-wise, the season belonged to Kes (Jennifer Lien, whose tenure on the series was now near its end), Neelix (Ethan Phillips), and the Doctor (Robert Picardo), who shined (respectively) in "Warlord," "Fair Trade," and the surprisingly touching "Real Life" (the latter directed by "Potsie" himself, Happy Days veteran Anson Williams). By infecting B'Elanna (Roxanne Dawson) with a fellow officer's "Blood Fever," Voyager delved into the turbulent Vulcan ritual of Pon Farr, while the cliffhanger "Scorpion" introduced the relentless, Borg-destroying villains of Species 8472, which would pose a continuing threat in subsequent episodes.
Season 3 had a few clunkers (the guilty pleasure "Macrocosm" puts Janeway in stripped-down "Ripley" mode against invading macro-viruses, and Ensign Kim is an awkward "Favorite Son" to a bevy of babes), but for every misstep there's a strong science-fiction concept, like the highly-evolved Hadrosaurs in "Distant Origin," which doubles as a compelling indictment of institutionalized repression. Overall, this is rock-solid Trek, and the DVD features are equally engaging, albeit growing more perfunctory (especially the season 3 summary) with each full-season release. Don't forget the Easter eggs hidden on the special-features menus, however; they contain some of the set's happiest surprises. --Jeff Shannon
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The Star Trek franchise continues...
Nominated for 30 Emmys, including seven for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, Star Trek: Voyager continues the rich tradition of the original 1960s Star Trek franchise. Created by former L.A. police officer Gene Roddenberry, the Star Trek TV series morphed into a franchise famous for the unprecedented fanatical devotion of its fan base. Lasting only three seasons during its original network run, Star Trek struck gold with its syndicated reruns, launching a number of motion pictures featuring the original cast as well as novels, comic books, collectibles, and reams of Star Trek-related memorabilia. The third spin-off from the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager premiered in January 1995 to modest critical acclaim, but experienced great success with television viewers, slowly increasing its ratings as the series progressed. Following on the heels of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), the series precedes Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) while boasting an all-star cast that includes veteran actress Kate Mulgrew (whose past TV appearances include such shows as Dallas, Cheers, and Murphy Brown). Yet instead of pursuing the classic Star Trek mission to "boldly go where no one has gone before," Star Trek: Voyager is more about going where the crew has been before...
Star Trek: Voyager follows the exploits of the crew aboard the starship USS Voyager. As the series begins, the Voyager is on a Federation mission to capture a rogue ship of Maquis rebels (a race first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). While in pursuit of the Maquis, the Voyager enters a system known as the badlands, and both ships are instantaneously transported to the Delta Quadrant over seventy-thousand light years away on the outskirts of the galaxy. Soon, both the Maquis and the crew of Voyager learn they were brought to Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, a mysterious force overseeing the safety of the Ocampan race who live in the shadow on an impending threat from the vicious Kazon. When the Kazon destroy the Maquis ship, the Voyager crew merges with the Maquis crew to defend themselves from the Kazon. Having destroyed the device which could bring them home, the crew of the Voyager - led by Capt. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and the crew of the Maquis ship - led by Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran), must work as a united front in order to meet their mutual goal of finding a way home...
The Star Trek: Voyager (Season 3) DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere "Basics" in which the crew must get "back to basics" when the Kazon take possession of the Voyager and abandon the crew on an infant planet gripped in the earliest stages of evolutionary process. Only Tom Paris and Lon Suder manage to evade capture, and the fate of the entire Voyager crew rests on their ability to devise a plan for retaking the ship... Other notable episodes from Season 3 include "Warlord" in which the dying alien Tieran manages to teleport his conscious mind into the body of a Voyager crewmember and use his host in order to return to his home planet where he is attempting a takeover, and "Favorite Son" in which a Voyager rendezvous with an unexplored region of space leads Harry Kim to the discovery of his true biological bloodline...
Below is a list of episodes included on the Star Trek: Voyager (Season 3) DVD:
Episode 43 (Basics)
Episode 44 (Flashback)
Episode 45 (The Chute)
Episode 46 (The Swarm)
Episode 47 (False Profits)
Episode 48 (Remember)
Episode 49 (Sacred Ground)
Episode 50 (Future's End: Part 1)
Episode 51 (Future's End: Part 2)
Episode 52 (Warlord)
Episode 53 (The Q and the Grey)
Episode 54 (Macrocosm)
Episode 55 (Fair Trade)
Episode 56 (Alter Ego)
Episode 57 (Coda)
Episode 58 (Blood Fever)
Episode 59 (Unity)
Episode 60 (The Darkling)
Episode 61 (Rise)
Episode 62 (Favorite Son)
Episode 63 (Before and After)
Episode 64 (Real Life)
Episode 65 (Distant Origin)
Episode 66 (Worst Case Scenario)
Episode 67 (Displaced)
Episode 68 (Scorpion: Part 1)
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This is the second best voyager season, in my opinion. Scorpion Part 1, Basics part 2, and futures end are amazing. I can't wait for season 4 to watch Scorpion Part 2. Buy season 3, and 4 together and then you can watch Scorpion in one sitting and it will blow you away!
Warning! Manufacturing Problem -Please read before buying!
I LOVE Star Trek Voyager, but there seems to be some cheap DVD manufacturing going on. I purchased this DVD set, and straight out of the box, there was a consistent glitch in the DVD. There are generally 4 episodes per disc. On all of them, except the last disc where there was a different format, the last 5 minutes (approximately) of the second episode and the first 5 minutes (again approximate) of the 3rd episode are missing. It locks up the player and nothing can be done. There were no visible scratches and the amount of time missing was very consistent. I tested all discs on several different players including a computer type DVD player, a regular television type player, and a portable DVD player. So... it is the discs, not the player. Other people leaving reviews did not all have this problem, so it may be an intermittent manufacturing problem, but it did happen to me also on a Season 4 set on disc 1. Considering this set is over $100, please take this possible defect into consideration.
On the actual content of the season, I loved it and have no complaints so my rating of 3 stars is based on an average. 5 stars for content, 1 star for quality of the manufactured product. I hope this is helpful to you. I have never experienced such an odd problem before and never saw it coming!
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