Star Trek: Voyager’s Darkest Story Is Still 1 of Trek’s Best, 30 Years Later

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Debuting in 1995 as a flagship series for the newly launched UPN Network, Star Trek: Voyager promised a different approach from its predecessors. The pressure of carrying a network meant the series typically leaned toward a safe, episodic formula that reset at the end of each story. While it provided an easily digestible series for new viewers, the premise of being truly lost in space lacked real consequences.