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DVD Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Fourth Season
For many fans, Voyager hit its peak in the fourth season, due in no small part to a certain former Borg drone named Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 0-1, but you can call her Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Following the season 3 cliffhanger "Scorpion," the crew enters an unlikely alliance with the Borg against Species 8472, led by Seven of Nine, who ends up restoring (mostly) her human roots and trying to assimilate herself among Voyager's crew all the time feeling the pull of the Collective and resisting the mother-hen attempts of Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). While Seven's curvaceous figure and skin-tight uniform certainly won over many fans, she was helped by a commanding presence, good writing ("So you wish to copulate?" was a classic line), and a stage that was cleared for her by the coinciding departure of one of the most prominent characters of the series.
Other significant developments of the season included the actors' getting to stretch themselves out "Mirror, Mirror"-like as evil counterparts in "Living Witness" (also Tim Russ's directing debut), the time- and mind-bending two-parter "Year of Hell," a battle with 1940s Nazis in the two-part "The Killing Game," the Doctor's comedic sparring with a new rival in "Message in a Bottle," the Alien-like "Prey," and Tom Paris (Robert Duncan MacNeill) taking a personal step and switching bodies with an alien in "Vis a Vis."
The DVD set offers the usual 20-minute season overview, crew profiles of Seven of Nine (natch) and Harry Kim (both of whom show warm appreciation for the Trek crowd), features on Species 8472 and the art of matte painting, and episode spotlights. --David Horiuchi
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Star Trek Voyager - 4th Season
A 'must have' for the serious Star Trek fan! The 4th season is the 'Season of the Borg'.
The fourth season is awesome!
This is the season where 7 of 9 joins the crew, and as usual, the episodes are excellent. Add it to your collection!
Voyager On A Roll
While it's difficult during any series to lose a beloved cast member, this season's change was done with style and interest. Not only that but the stories became more and more engaging afterward which, I find, is not all that usual as the new character must be flushed out and caught up with the rest.
Other reviewers have well articulated the episodes in this Season so I will not go over them again, just review some of my personal favorites:
Revulsion - B'Elanna and the Doctor attempt to help a stranded hologram only to discover that things are not as they seem. Very dark; a good start to further self-discovery for the Doctor in this and later seasons.
Message in a Bottle - The Doctor is sent on an away mission to the Alpha Quadrant in the hopes of informing Star Fleet that Voyager is around and on their way home. Andy Dick guest stars as an upgraded EMH in the ship the Doctor is sent to and some great (& classic) Star Trekian banter ensues.
One - Seven must get Voyager through a nebula on her own as the rest of the crew is in stasis due to radiation. While she feels she is completely up to the challenge, and welcomes the opportunity to be without other people, she discovers that that being Borg is not enough to get her through on her own any more.
Year of Hell, Parts I & II - My favorite of the season. Kurtwood Smith guest stars as the haunted Annorax who trying to regain everything he lost by manipulating Time itself. Voyager, as an anomaly Annorax didn't calculate or consider, must be destroyed if he is to reclaim his people's Empire and those who were lost along the way. Powerful performances by both Kurtwood and Kate makes these two episodes together one of the best of the series.
The Extras on the DVDs are fun to watch; I especially enjoyed the interviews with Jeri Ryan. However, I am continually disappointed in this and the other sets I've purchased that none contain any cast or production comments for you to set while watching the episodes. There's little to no Behind the Scenes footage, bloopers, cast members playing around/being themselves and, as mentioned, no commentaries at all. For the price of these sets I think a bit more should be included for the fans of the show.
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