Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Collection

I am not a Trekkie or a huge Star Trek fan (I am more of a classic 1960s and 1970s Whovian), but I really enjoyed Star Trek Voyager. A lot of the franchise ranged from the Original Series, The Next Generation, DS9 and other future Star Trek franchises focused on officers that served with Starfleet Command whilst Voyager turned this on its head.The crew of the USS Voyager who are stuck in the dangerous and unknown “Delta Quadrant “ blends and combines a Starfleet Crew such as Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Lt\Lt Commander Tuvoc (Tim Russ), Lt (Junior Grade) Tom Paris (Robert Duncan-McNeill), Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang (he should of been promoted to Lt (Junior Grade) during Season 6) and one of my favourite characters the EMH -Emergency Medical Hologram “The Doctor” (Robert Picardo) and other Starfleet officers and crew men with former members of the Marquee, Marquee Leader and Voyager’s First Officer Commander Charkotay (Robert Bertran) and half human\Klingon hybrid and Voyager’s Chief Engineer Lt B’lenna Torres (Roxanne Dawson (who,s another favourite character of mine)) and other members of the Marquee crew some are dangerous such as Batazoid, Lon Sauder (Brad Douriff), Seska (Martha Hackett), a Cardassian Spy who altered to look Bajoran and one who’s a Kazon traitor Michael Jonas (Raphael Serbage), but a lot of time, a majority of the Marquee Crew are good characters and are willing to help out the Starfleet crew. Along for the ride is two alien guides Neelix (Ethan Phillips) and Kes (Jennifer Lien) who helps Voyager to deal with threats from various Kazon factions and the organ harvesting aliens “The Vidians” during the first three seasons, along with the mischievous, immature and immoral “Q” played in fantastic form by legendary Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star John De’Lancie.However, after the deaths of Sauder (who becomes dies a hero in the end of Season Three, Basics Part Two), Seska (Basics Part Two) and Michael Jonas (Season Two, episode Investigation), Season Three showed both crews working together and moving forward and away from Kazon and Vidian space and moving towards their dangerous future adversaries “The Borg”. Onset, at the end of Season Three, the cast and production teams had previously had problems with their youngest cast member Jennifer Lien and her character Kes wasn’t developing and her attitude wasn’t helping and her character was finally written out at the beginning of Season Four, and her character left and departed from Voyager at the second adventure “The Gift” to make room for the most iconic character in Star Trek History.The solution was to replace the character with a character who was human, but was captured and assimilated by Starfleet’s greatest enemy “The Borg”, so one of the most important and most iconic characters were created “Seven Of Nine” (who’s also one of my favourite characters) played brilliantly by American actress Jeri Ryan, this helped the show from being on hiatus to become a popular cult show and during Season 4 to Season 7 the viewing figures increased. Seven Of Nine became a Elisa Doolittle character from being completely “Borg” at the beginning to become human at the final adventure Season 7 “Endgame”. Seven was very intelligent yet she had to slowly adapt and found social interactions difficult from a Collective Borg Drone to a human individual. Seven’s attitude was challenging at first and she caused tension especially with Janeway which was very measured, but it was especially with Chief Engineer B’Leanna Torres, who’s didn’t trust Seven and disagreements and arguments did occur, but she changed during the last episodes of the final Season 7 as she trusted Seven more when she became pregnant. She wasn’t the only character to change it wasn’t only the blended Starfleet and Marquee crew that changed during the 7 Seasons it was the EMH “The Doctor” that changed as well from being cold, robotic and not very approachable hologram to being mentored by former crew member Kes with hobbies such as Art, Music, Dancing and even romance to being a more warm, friendly, supportive, caring, loving and more humane character, and he later becomes Seven Of Nine’s mentor to make her more human whose developed a humorous, caring and supportive friendship and a strong relationship to characters who developed who were lacking personalities and didn’t have any emotions or empathy at all at the beginning, but they became firm friends with the crew as reliable team and a good family within the Voyager crew.Jeri Ryan’s impact on the show was fantastic as from Season 4 to Season 7, and the storylines changed dramatically into a lot darker stories, and with darker stories came new villains such as the trophy hunters and gathering hunters “Hirogens” made a strong impact to the ratings as well during Season 4 to 7, and boosted their ratings. If I went back in time, the only changes I would have made is the promotion of Harry Kim to Lt (Junior Grade) during Season 5 or 6, and during the end of Season 5 have Seven Of Nine start to wear a Science Starfleet Uniform (with green shoulders) with Marquee insignia similar to Chakotay and Torres as she was not fully in Starfleet that would have been the only changes I would have made to this outstanding series.I am glad that Jeri Ryan’s character of “Seven Of Nine”, and John De’Lancie’s character of “Q” was to develop in Sir Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek’s spin off “Picard”.

I bought this as a Birthday Present as my husband who is a Sci-Fi fanatic who didn't have this item in his outstanding collection as it was "too expensive to buy before," but this set was at an exceptional price compared to previous prices, so it was a win-win all round.

All below the dotted line was my original review. Above the dotted line is my reviewed review.I thoroughly liked watching right through the whole journey. However I would not be watching through it again as much as I think I would like to. I just do not think I could watch Kate Mulgrew snarl her way through seven series of Voyager again. Shame because there were some exceptional episodes that I would love to see again.-------------------------------------I have owned it for a week and have been watching a lot. It's been one of the best series' that I have ever watched. As of yet I have not seen an episode that I have not seen before on TV, and that surprised me. It would be nice to see some new episodes. However every episode I have seen, I have enjoyed. It's great to be back with the crew on their journey.The quality of Voyager has something unique to me. The task of getting back to the Alpha quadrant makes it unique. Other aspects of Voyager are great too. The acting is brilliant and the writing is exemplary sometimes. It has good humour, with laugh out loud moments. There are also some very emotional moments, and the overall journey is an emotional ride. Expect some tears. I love being on the journey with them, and watching them bonding.The quality of the item has come into question in some reviews. However mine is perfect. The three plastic cases containing the discs are nicely done. Each disc is playing perfectly and I have no worries now. The 4:3 aspect can be made into almost widescreen with cropping in your player. It works absolutely perfectly. I am watching using JRiver on a computer at the moment. It helps that I can use the WASAPI audio driver, which improves the audio. It is also sampling at 48KHz, which is slightly HD-audio. Most computers now can play this. However if not it will down sample to 44.1KHz.Overall the image and sound are good. I have however seen reviews mentioning blurring. I found this is easily dealt with by restating my media player on my computer. I think it comes from using the media player for hours, either watching or keeping it paused for long times. Anyway all is good, and I can watch it from afar or sit close up, and see a clear image.Be prepared for fun, sci-fi, and some scary Borg parts.