Star Trek: Voyager (season 4)
{5/5} “‘So what’s it like out there in Galactic Cluster 3?’ ‘Beyond your comprehension.'” — Harry & Seven
Star Trek: Voyager season 4, aired in 1997-98
When Voyager’s alliance with the Borg comes to an end, Seven of Nine is left on board with her link to the collective severed. Janeway hopes that she can regain her humanity, and vows to help. Kes demonstrates astonishing telekinesis powers far beyond anything she’s been able to do before — and decides she must leave the ship.
In general things come together very well this season — there are more terrific episodes than in previous seasons.
It’s too bad that Kes left the show, as she was a great character. Of course, the new character of Seven is also intriguing — when she finally tells a joke in the season finale, it’s very funny.
I like how Janeway listens to Chakotay’s advice in “The Omega Directive” — she decides to share top secret information with her senior staff because she’s far from Starfleet.
One more quotation: “Either I’ve become impervious to antimatter explosions — or we’re still dreaming.”
In the 2-part “Year of Hell” Voyager is battered over and over by the time-based weapons of the Krenim. In “Message in a Bottle” the Doctor is sent over an alien network to the Alpha Quadrant where he finds himself on a Starfleet ship taken over by Romulans. In the 2-part “The Killing Game” the Hirogen have taken over Voyager and are forcing the crew to participate in dangerous holodeck activities — such as World War II. In “Living Witness” the Doctor is activated 700 years in the future and told he’s a war criminal.
Guest stars include Tony Todd, John Rhys-Davies, and Kurtwood Smith. Alexander Enberg plays Vorik.
Stars Jeri Ryan, and Majel Barrett as the voice of the computer.
This is the 2nd time I’ve seen it.
I previously reviewed season 3.