Some found small cult audiences. Still others just hung on as best they could and never posted numbers quite low enough to be canceled. In Episodes , we examine shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced or reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity.
Deep Space Nine had been launched two years earlier to critical applause. But Voyager was not only a new Star Trek series. Jeri Taylor ran the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation , subtly transforming the science-fiction morality play into a freewheeling family reunion. And Michael Piller had similar duties on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , which had the sole spotlight in the Star Trek universe for a total of three months at the start of its third season, just as its long-term story was heating up.
When Battlestar Galactica sets off for Earth, the drama of both nuclear apocalypse and various resource crises is palpable. Now, The Caretaker is dying, his companion has long ago moved on, and the Ocampa run the risk of being dominated by the tribal Kazon, unless the Voyager crew can help him.
Captain Janeway makes the decision to destroy the Caretaker array that brought Voyager to the Delta Quadrant instead of further disrupting the balance of power in the area.
Without the array and at maximum warp, it will now take Voyager 75 years to get back home. The next generation of bubbly Make your own seltzer water at home. The stakes are enormous, but Janeway barely has time to weigh her decision. The right to form a labor union on Battlestar Galactica is given more heft. Two episodes later, life on Voyager is hunky dory, give or take a reference to some rebels not fitting in.
Berman was adamant about this point. It would get pretty irritating, and cumbersome, to have the Maquis tension in every episode.
Starfleet is expressly prohibited from interfering with the progress of pre-warp societies. Now, Voyager has the task of upholding Alpha Quadrant standards in the absence of Alpha Quadrant hierarchy. The most experienced officers are black Vulcan security officer Tuvok and Captain Janeway herself. Which makes it all the stranger that the first female captain of a Star Trek series is introduced through the eyes of a straight white male. With its cast of prominent female scientists who possess rich interests and social lives, the show routinely makes the Bechdel test a thing of the 21st century.
When Voyager discovers super-powerful, super-dangerous Omega particles, Starfleet requires captains to throw out the Prime Directive and destroy them. TNG began this tradition when the decision was made to end the show after season 7 in Although TNG was technically "canceled" by Paramount, the show was brought to a close because the studio was interested in relaunching it as a movie franchise, which they did that same year.
Because TNG was not canceled due to low ratings or viewership, the decision to end it happened well in advance of the final season, giving the creative team a chance to develop a finale that wrapped everything up well. TNG had specific reasons for ending after seven seasons, but the two shows that followed in its footsteps, DS9 and Voyager , did so largely because of the success of TNG's run.
However, although both shows made it to the end of their seven-season runs without being prematurely canceled, neither enjoyed the same level of success that TNG had. DS9's ratings were steady but consistently lower than TNG's , mostly due to its serialized nature.
Likewise, the failings of the United Paramount Network hurt Star Trek: Voyager , which was developed to be the network's flagship show and not immediately released in syndication. While TNG could potentially have continued on after season 7, this number turned out to be just right for the slightly less popular DS9 and Voyager to tell their stories in.
Voyager zooms toward Earth under starship escort before the end credits roll. Did we want some people to die? Braga certainly did. Seven of Nine was, for me, designed to be a character that was gonna die tragically.
I planned that. What would have made it truly stand out would have been if Biller and company pursued some of their original ideas. In the development of the episode, one story that was floated was a mini-arc about the crew getting home before the finale — an option that castmember Roxanna Dawson was in favor of.
The idea was that Janeway would surrender Voyager to the Borg, and the battle-damaged starship would be assimilated by a Borg cube.
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