Kate MulgrewStar 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 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”.

Love itHad to take the 2 binder cases out of the outer box to fit on shelf but really like it. Great price too

Replacement for a stolen set perfect thank you

Voyager itself is 5/5 along with Deep Space Nine, but I rate this 4/5 due to a minor annoyance with the audio language. Instead of reviewing I decided to make a helpful guide to what I've discovered and how to fix the most common complaint about German audio playing when English is selected, as some have said they even returned the set because they couldn't make it English.First to state I purchased in May 2020 direct from Amazon a brand new still sealed in plastic wrap copy of the newest marked complete UK collection release. (Amazon date marked as "28 Oct. 2013") On the underside is "TM 2016 CBS Studios." It arrived in perfect condition with no broken box which made me feel lucky compared to the photos posted by others. Even so at least two discs (S1D2 & S4D7) had scratches on the bottom (looking like a small wire comb had been lightly scraped across them.)Loading the disc presents a language menu. Selecting 'English' brings up the main menu in English, however some episodes do indeed default to German audio. So I decided to be smart and also select English from the language selection sub-menu before playing each episode (which works on DS9). This however was a failure. I tried to be sneaky and instead picked German audio thinking the menu might be backwards (and English instead will come through). The German audio started playing yet again.Thankfully however there is a solution - use your DVD player's remote control to change the audio track manually when the episode starts without going to any disc menu. Just like if you wanted to change from a directors commentary to regular audio while watching a movie. It works fine that way, all in English.For those who (like one comment) refunded because it's not in widescreen pretty much any player can stretch a 4:3 image like Voyager to 16:9 widescreen if you desire. I had someone watching it for hours and until I said about the 4:3 they didn't even know it wasn't natural widescreen. I couldn't see anyone post a full guide of German glitched episodes so here's from my test through (four episodes per disc):season 1disc 2 ep 2-3disc 7 ep 1-2 (these are star trek original series eps included as special features)season 2disc 2 ep 1-3season 3disc 2 ep 1 & 3disc 3 ep 1disc 6 ep 3-4season 4all fineseason 5disc 2 episode 1disc 3 episode 1 & 3-4disc 4 episode 1-2disc 6 episode 1season 6disc 4 episode 2disc 5 episode 3season 7disc 1 episode 2-3disc 3 episode 1disc 6 episode 4Perhaps some will find this guide useful. As far as the other reports that episodes are incomplete ending at 38 mins or so, I quickly did a check of every disc all day today skipping to the end and every episode includes the rolling end credits. I'm yet to play it all through from start to finish normal watching but I'm confident it should be ok.So if you're ok with a minor inconvenience of having to select the audio track once the episode begins then this is the set that every Voyager fan wants. A terrific DVD collection and the extras are really interesting. While clicking through I found myself stopping and watching in full a 10 minute featurette on how Voyager got its shape while being designed including sketches of failed looks.Great show, solid collection, and with no chance of ever getting a Blu-ray release essential for Star Trek fans.