The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Voyager

Every episode of Star Trek: Voyager ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Voyager!

Follow the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager, under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. Voyager is in pursuit of a rebel Maquis ship in a dangerous part of the galaxy when it is suddenly thrown thousands of light years away into the Delta Quadrant. With much of her crew dead, Captain Janeway is forced to join forces with the Maquis to find a way back home.

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Endgame (2)
star
8.88
913 votes

#1 - Endgame (2)

Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/23/2001

After a decades-long journey to reach the Alpha Quadrant, Admiral Kathryn Janeway makes a bold decision to change the past in an attempt to undo the toll taken on the crew during their arduous journey home. This is the final episode of the series.

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Endgame (1)
star
8.75
2648 votes

#2 - Endgame (1)

Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/23/2001

Stardate: 54973.4 - After a decades-long journey to reach the Alpha Quadrant, Admiral Kathryn Janeway makes a bold decision to change the past in an attempt to undo the toll taken on the crew during their arduous journey home.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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Scorpion (1)
star
8.35
2316 votes

#3 - Scorpion (1)

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/1997

Stardate: 50984.3 Voyager finally enters Borg space, only to discover a threat more powerful than the Borg themselves.

Directors: David Livingston
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Scorpion (2)
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8.27
2778 votes

#4 - Scorpion (2)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1997

Stardate: 51003.7 - The crew of Voyager come up with a solution to the Borg's problem, and are willing to share it with them if they grant safe passage to the ship and its crew. In order to help with the negotiations, the Borg send over a drone designated Seven of Nine as a representative of the collective.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Dark Frontier (2)
star
8.20
822 votes

#5 - Dark Frontier (2)

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1999

After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack to steal a trans-warp coil to shorten Voyager's journey home. The Borg detect her plan, and access Seven Of Nine's neural transceiver to deliver an ultimatum: re-join the collective or the ship and its crew will be assimilated. If she agrees, the ship will be guaranteed safe passage through Borg space.

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Dark Frontier (1)
star
8.12
2473 votes

#6 - Dark Frontier (1)

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1999

Stardate: 52619.2 - After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack on another damaged Sphere to steal a trans-warp coil. However, as the crew prepare for their heist, the Borg Queen is secretly aware of the entire plan.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Equinox (1)
star
8.07
1862 votes

#7 - Equinox (1)

Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/26/1999

Voyager encounters another Federation starship, the Equinox, commanded by Captain Ransom, which was also abducted by the Caretaker. However, a terrible secret is exposed by the Doctor and Captain Ransom steals Voyager's technology along with Seven of Nine and the Doctor as hostages.

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Unimatrix Zero (1)
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8.06
1981 votes

#8 - Unimatrix Zero (1)

Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/24/2000

Seven of Nine is led to a place known as Unimatrix Zero; a place where Borg drones are individuals for a short period of time during their regeneration. However, once their regeneration is complete, all recollection of the event is erased. Captain Janeway uses this to form a plan of attack that would create a mutiny from within the Collective.

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Drone
star
8.03
2257 votes

#9 - Drone

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/21/1998

A transporter accident merges some of Seven Of Nine's Borg nanoprobes with the Doctor's 29th Century holo-emitter to create a 29th Century super-Borg.

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Basics (1)
star
8.01
1820 votes

#10 - Basics (1)

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/20/1996

Stardate: Unknown. Voyager receives a distress signal from Seska, who claims that Maje Cullah is going to take her baby away from her, a baby she says is Chakotay's. Chakotay is skeptical, but can't take the risk of abandoning his child, should it really prove to be his. Janeway authorises a mission to rescue Chakotay's child and the ship moves deep into Kazon Nistrim territory. However: was Seska for real, or is this all an elaborate trap?

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Year Of Hell (1)
star
8.01
2241 votes

#11 - Year Of Hell (1)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1997

Stardate: 51268.4 - Voyager comes under attack from a Krenim Temporal Ship that alters the course of evolution by wiping out entire species from the timeline.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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Distant Origin
star
8.01
1979 votes

#12 - Distant Origin

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1997

Stardate: Unknown An alien paleontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people (the Voth) evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.

Directors: David Livingston
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Deadlock
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7.99
1844 votes

#13 - Deadlock

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1996

Stardate: 49548.7 An accident in a plasma cloud duplicates Voyager after they are attacked by the Vidiians. During the aftermath, the ship is severely damaged, Ensign Wildman's baby dies and Harry Kim is sucked into space through a hull breach.

Directors: David Livingston
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Blink of an Eye
star
7.98
2152 votes

#14 - Blink of an Eye

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2000

Voyager becomes the target of a society it inadvertently helped to create within a short period of time.

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Future's End (2)
star
7.98
1819 votes

#15 - Future's End (2)

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996

Stardate: 50312.5 While trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a gang of weapons smugglers who believe that they are from the government.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Message in a Bottle
star
7.97
2298 votes

#16 - Message in a Bottle

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1998

Stardate: Unknown - The crew discover an ancient communications relay that extents to the Alpha Quadrant. They are able to send the Doctor through to a Federation ship at the other end, the experimental U.S.S. Prometheus, only to discover that it has been taken over by Romulans.

Directors: Nancy Malone
Writer: Lisa Klink
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Unimatrix Zero (2)
star
7.96
2020 votes

#17 - Unimatrix Zero (2)

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2000

Stardate: 54014.4 - The away team must infiltrate the Borg Collective and execute their plan to undermine them, even though it may destroy Unimatirix Zero forever.

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Caretaker (1)
star
7.95
2984 votes

#18 - Caretaker (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/1995

Stardate: 48315.6 While in pursuit of a Maquis ship in a region of space known as the 'Badlands', Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew aboard Voyager and the Maquis ship are transported 70,000 light years from home into the uncharted region of the galaxy known as the Delta Quadrant.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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The Killing Game (1)
star
7.94
1886 votes

#19 - The Killing Game (1)

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1998

Stardate: Unknown - When the Hirogen capture and board Voyager they discover that the holodeck can be used to improve the hunt by putting the prey through different situations and locations. In one situation, Captain Janeway, Torres, Tuvok and Seven of Nine are members of the French resistance in occupied France with the Hirogen in roles as Nazi SS Officers. Since the crew was implanted with subdermal transmitters, they have no idea that this is on the holodeck, and they think it's real. It is up to the Doctor in sickbay who is forced to heal the injured to disable the devices and help the crew escape.

Directors: David Livingston
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Year Of Hell (2)
star
7.93
2244 votes

#20 - Year Of Hell (2)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1997

Stardate: 51425.4 - With most of the crew having abandoned Voyager and only a skeleton crew remaining, the crew realize that to stop the Krenim ship from altering history any further, they need allies. They soon realize that the price of history is higher than any of them could have possibly imagined.

Directors: Mike Vejar
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The Killing Game (2)
star
7.92
1770 votes

#21 - The Killing Game (2)

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1998

Stardate: 51715.2 - The crew must find a way to defeat the Hirogen and reclaim Voyager.

Directors: Victor Lobl
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Hope and Fear
star
7.91
1918 votes

#22 - Hope and Fear

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/20/1998

Stardate: 51978.2 - An alien translator by the name of Arturis is able to finally decode the Starfleet message received by Voyager five months ago. It tells them to go to a new type of ship waiting for them with an engine system faster than warp drive, which is capable of bringing them home within three months.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
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Homestead
star
7.85
1790 votes

#23 - Homestead

Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/2001

Stardate: 54868.6 - When Voyager discovers a settlement of Talaxians on an asteroid caught in an industrial conflict, the crew manage find a new home for the population. When an armed conflict between the mining operations and the re-settled Talaxians erupts, Neelix is offered a chance of a new life away from Voyager within the colony.

Directors: LeVar Burton
Writer: Raf Green
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In the Flesh
star
7.84
2248 votes

#24 - In the Flesh

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1998

The crew of Voyager discover a simulation of Starfleet Headquarters being run by Species 8472 being used to practice launching an assault on the Alpha Quadrant. With the aid of regular doses of drugs, Species 8472 are able to shape-shift into human form.

Directors: David Livingston
Writer: Nick Sagan
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Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy
star
7.84
1911 votes

#25 - Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1999

The Doctor programs himself with the ability to daydream. When an alien spy gains access to the Doctor's visions he mistakes them for reality.

Writer: Joe Menosky
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