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Computer voice. SEE: Ah-Kel; Chamra Vortex; changeling; returning to space. (“The 37's" [VGR]). The Voyager's landing in Croden; Exarch; Ganges, U.S.S.; Miradorn; Nehelik Province; “The 37's” was the first time in Star Trek history that a starship Odo; Rakhar; Rakhari; Rigelian freighter; Ro-Kel; T'Vran; toh- soft-landed on a planet's surface and returned into space. The maire; Vanoben transport; Yareth. show traditionally avoided such a maneuver because of the expensive visual effects required for a spaceship landing, preferVoval. (Eric Pierpoint). lyaaran ambassador and a pilot. Voval flew ring instead to use the transporter; but by the time Voyager was in the craft that was supposedly sent to transport Captain Jean-Luc production, visual effects techniques (and budgets) had improved Picard to the lyaaran homeworld during the first lyaaran diplomatic to the point where this was occasionally feasible. contact with the Federation in 2370. The spacecraft crashed en In 2371 the Voyager was violently propelled into the Delta route, and Picard found himself marooned with a human woman, Quadrant by a powerful displacement wave generated by the Anna. In truth, Anna was Voval, who had assumed her form inan Caretaker. Stranded some 70,000 light-years from home, attempt to learn firsthand of human intimacy and the emotion of Captain Janeway invited the crew of a similarly stranded Maquis love. (“Liaisons” [TNG]). Eric Pierpoint is also familiar to genre vessel to join the Voyager crew, and asked Maquis officer fans for his portrayal of Newcomer police detective Chakotay to serve as her second-in-command. At the George Francisco in the television series Alien f time Voyager was swept into the Delta Nation. 7, n\ Quadrant, it had been on a mission to pur| ( \2) sue Chakotay's ship. (“Caretaker” [VGRY]). Voyager VI. Early automated interplanetary | 1 — Th Voyager lost contact with Starfleet on space probe launched from Earth in the late ny J6R% 1 stardate 48307.5. (“Non Sequitur” [VGR]). 1990s. Upon leaving the Sol System, 1] ( %\\ Ironically, the mission to pursue Voyager VI fell into a black hole and | [|] gh Ti 1 Chakotay's Maquis ship was supposed to emerged on the other side of the galaxy, | i 1 Tie . have lasted only three weeks. (“Elogium” near a planet of living machines. (Star Trek: Ik @f { Bt (@ [VGRY). In late 2371, the Voyager had a The Motion Picture). SEE: SETI greeting; | "2 | I . ] Ea, crew of 152. A minimum of 100 people V'Ger. Voyager | and Il, actual space probes J + was normally required to operate the veslaunched by NASA in the 1970s, were 1 | I] {gt sel successfully. (“The 37's” [VGR]). among the first to explore Jupiter, Saturn, |% a 1 nea The Starship Voyager had no counand the outer Sol System. NASA's Jet A' | selor aboard. (“The Cloud” [VGRY)). Cabin Propulsion Laboratory, which managed the y/| | \ 125-A on Deck 2 was originally designated Voyager project, provided technical assis- a | 5 as the captain's private dining room. tance during the making of Star Trek: The Motion id = . Because power availability was limited after the ship Picture that included construction blueprints of the . p= . was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, the crew actual Voyager probes. / p [mf a 5 adopted a system of replicator-usage rationing in va aa \ order to conserve energy. As part of this effort, Voyager, U.S.S. g' soa RS Neelix converted part of the mess hall into a Federation star- 0 { = ya" makeshift kitchen, where he prepared a wide NN ship, Intrepid /) 8 “Tg ‘a8 ) range of delicacies for the crew. (“Phage” “\ class, Starfleet Hey ZB SEEN [VGR]). Voyager had a Stellar Cartography registry number f{ oy | \ =r \ Department. (“Time and Again” [VGR]). The NCC-74656, Jf br 1 \ warp core on Voyager was ejected on commanded EA 2) «= | stardate 48734, when Chakotay sought to by Captain Kathryn Janeway. Voyager had |. —/ E | prevent the ship from entering a nebula a gross mass of 700,000 metric tons [I MEE «||| ’ EL _|| inhabited by the Komar. The core was (“Phage" [VGR]) and was 15 decks thick. [i+ SJ . 1 I subsequently recovered and reinstalled. ("Caretaker” [VGRY). The ship had a comple- || | 11 ~ i (“Cathexis" [VGR]). An exact duplicate of ment of 38 photon torpedoes as of stardate | \ MA + the Voyager was created by a spatial scis48546.2. (“The Cloud" [VGR]). Voyager had a Ly | Ia sion on stardate 49548.7 after the ship crew complement of 141 and had a sustain- REY ae. oan Is entered a plasma drift containing a subable cruising velocity of warp factor 9.975. ® . « \'ncc-7g6s88 J. §// space divergence field. In order to prevent The ship featured improved computer sys- oN y y . her ship from being taken over by Vidiians, tems in which some traditional optical proces- 4 Ro. / 4 jj the Captain Janeway in command of the sors were replaced with bio-neural circuitry. AY A J/ duplicate Voyager ordered it to self-destruct. (“Caretaker” [VGR]). Voyager was also equipped a 2 we a (“Deadlock™ [VGR]). with conventional isolinear optical circuits. a | ~ The Starship Voyager was designed by (“Learning Curve” [VGR]). The bridge was located as | xy series production designer Richard D. James on Deck 1, while the mess hall was located one Way and senior illustrator Rick Sternbach. The photolevel down on Deck 2, Section 13. Deck 4 had cargo \ | § | 7 graphic miniature was built by Tony Meininger and bay facilities. The shuttiebay was located on Deck 10, | | photographed under the supervision of visual effects as were additional cargo bays. Environmental control was ~— producer Dan Curry. Digital versions of the ship were located on Deck 12. (“Macrocosm” [VGRY). Voyager had the also used for some computer-generated visual effects by capability of landing on the surface of a Class-M planet, then Santa Barbara Studios, Digital Muse, and Foundation Imaging.

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