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The '''USS ''Voyager'' (NCC-74656)''' was an {{ShipClass|Intrepid}} [[Federation]] [[starship]]. It was launched in [[2371]] and was under the command of [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]]. The ship's maximum warp is was 9.975, with warp nacelles that pivot upwards while in flight. ''Voyager'' featured improved computer systems using both traditional [[isolinear circuitry]] and new [[bio-neural circuitry]] to improve performance. ''Voyager'' also had the capability of landing on the surface of a planet with landing struts. == Command Crew == === [[Commanding Officer]] (CO) - [[Captain]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kathryn_Janeway Kathryn Janeway] ===[[File:Kathryn Janeway% 2C 2371.jpg|thumb|left]] '''"'''''There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.'''''"''': - '''Captain Kathryn Janeway''', [[2375]]  '''Kathryn Janeway''' was a [[24th century]] [[Star Fleet]] officer, most noted for her service as [[captain|Captain]] of the [[starship]] ''USS Voyager''. She became the first [[Federation]] captain to successfully travel to the [[Delta Quadrant]], encountering dozens of new planets and civilizations. While there, she and her crew also survived numerous encounters with the [[Borg]].  Janeway was well-known for her addiction to [[coffee]]. She refused to go a day without a cup of coffee and preferred it completely black, without milk or sugar. Janeway once tried to give up coffee, unsuccessfully. Once, Neelix tried to get her to use ''Voyager''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s food reserves instead of her [[replicator]] rations by giving her his "Even better than coffee substitute". Grudgingly, Janeway agreed to try it, but was relieved when the bridge called her just before Neelix was finished pouring it. In an alternate timeline, Janeway gave up coffee in favor of tea later in life.  From [[2365]] onward, Janeway and Tuvok became close friends, and Janeway found she could always "rely on his insightful and unfailingly logical advice". Tuvok was one of her most trusted friends and advisers, and she discussed all command decisions with him. When ''Voyager'' was first stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway met with Maquis cell leader Chakotay. After the Maquis ship was destroyed, Chakotay and Janeway became reluctant allies in the attempt to find missing crewmembers and return to the Alpha Quadrant. Their complicated relationship began first as enemies, then as reluctant ship mates, forming into possible romantic interests, and settling with best friends. Chakotay became ''Voyager's'' [[First Officer]], and Janeway relied on Chakotay's innovative tactics in battles, integrating many Maquis techniques.        === [[Executive Officer]] (XO) - [[Commander]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chakotay Chakotay] ===[[File:Chakotay% 2C 2377.jpg|thumb|left]] In [[2371]], while Star Fleet was trying to capture him in the [[Badlands]], he and his Maquis crew were pulled into the [[Delta Quadrant]] and forced to merge with the crew of the ''Voyager'' during its journey towards [[Earth|home]]. Before serving as ''Voyager''{{'}}s first officer, he had resigned Star Fleet after years of service in order to join the Maquis to defend his home [[colony]].  Being of Mayan and Native American descent, Chakotay's tribe - mainly because of the intrusion of more technological societies - left [[Earth]] hundreds of years ago to find their own home on another [[planet]] near the Cardassian border. His father tried to impart his values on Chakotay in many ways, such as taking him to hikes to nearby forested worlds of their ancestors. When his father died, he resigned from Star Fleet to join the Maquis and defend his home colony, continuing the fight in his father's name. He also took the mark, his face tattoo, in order to honor the memory of his father and to signify his Native American heritage.   One of the many reasons he joined Star Fleet was to pursue his interests in anthropology and paleontology. He was fascinated by [[20th century]] Earth, and the early history of space exploration. Since his time at Star Fleet Academy, Chakotay was a fan of boxing. While there, the legendary Boothby helped him train. He occasionally ran a program on the holodeck where he would box a [[Terrellian (Alpha Quadrant)|Terrellian]] with Boothby's assistance. He also said that "boxing helped him relax."   Aboard the Maquis ship ''Val Jean'', Chakotay was close with many of his crew. B'Elanna Torres was Chakotay's engineer and unofficial first officer, and he endorsed her becoming ''Voyager's'' [[Chief Engineer]]. They had a close, almost sibling-like relationship, though she did not chose him to be her child's godfather because she believed he didn't really know about raising children. (She and Tom chose The Doctor instead.)         === [[Chief Tactical Officer]] / [[Chief of Security]] - [[Lieutenant Commander]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tuvok Tuvok] ===[[File:Tuvok 2371.jpg|thumb|left]] As a teenager, Tuvok rebelled against the [[Vulcan]] ideal of logic and reasoning when he fell in love with a Terrellian girl named Jara, the daughter of an [[ambassador]]. When she did not return his desperate feelings, Tuvok chose spend several months in isolation studying with a Vulcan master, where he learned to subdue his emotions. Tuvok entered Star Fleet Academy at the age of 25, but found it difficult to fit in. He found the egocentric nature of [[Human|humans]] difficult to deal with, but endured it because it was the wish of his parents to enter Star Fleet, and he felt obligated to fulfill their expectations.   In [[2371]], he infiltrated the crew of the [[Maquis]] raider commanded by a former Star Fleet officer, Chakotay. While hiding from a [[Cardassian]] ship in the [[Badlands]], the raider was hit by an energy wave which transported both the Maquis ship and ''Voyager'' into the Delta quadrant. Tuvok's status of a spy was revealed when he and Captain Janeway welcomed him back onto the ship.   Tuvok was a devoted parent and husband. Tuvok married T'Pel in [[2304]], and later had four children, three sons and a daughter. In [[2374]], he learned that his eldest son Sek had a child, named T'Meni after his mother, making him a grandfather. Tuvok was a prize-winning orchid breeder, and used grafting techniques on flowers from both Earth and Vulcan. Tuvok's main pastime was the Vulcan game ''[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kal-toh kal-toh],'' which he frequently played with Ensign Harry Kim. He also spent his spare time meditating, and instructed various members of the crew in this pursuit over the years.   His closest friend aboard Voyager was Captain Janeway herself, who trusted him completely, and whom he considered the closest thing to family aboard ''Voyager''. Previous to his assignment to ''Voyager,'' Tuvok was an instructor at Star Fleet Academy for a period of sixteen years.      == Officers == === [[Chief Engineer]] - Lieutenant Junior Grade [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B%27Elanna_Torres B'Elanna Torres] ===[[File:BElanna Torres.jpg|thumb|left]] With mother being Klingon and her father being human, B'Elanna was quick to anger and hard to get through to. Though she adored her father as a child, he left B'elanna and her mother, severing any contact. Blaming herself for his leaving, combined with being made fun of for her Klingon head ridges, the young girl began to resent her Klingon heritage. She attended [[Star Fleet]] Academy, but felt she did not fit in, continuously getting in fights with teachers and other students. Within two years, she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her, and she eventually dropped out in [[2368]]. She met Chakotay and joined the Maquis, finding that fighting Cardassians was the perfect outlet for her anger issues. Being a brilliant Engineer, she was an asset to the Maquis, and even managed to re-program a [[Cardassian]] missile for their own use.   Once on Voyager, B'Elanna found more people to fight with, usually the next in line for Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Carey. Once she proved her skills to Captain Janeway and earned her respect, Janeway then made her Chief Engineer over Carey. Often captured by Delta Quadrant species due to her genetic diversity, she continued to feel conflicted about it herself. After marrying Tom Paris and conceiving a child, B'Elanna even went so far as to try and genetically modify her child, to ensure it would not look Klingon, and face the same hardships she did as a child.   B'Elanna was, in part, responsible for Seven of Nine being abandoned by the Borg. During Voyager's first encounter with the Borg, she helped to engineer nanoprobes to use as a weapon against [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Species_8472 Species 8472], who had become a threat to both Voyager and the Borg. When Seven, on board Voyager, attempted to assimilate the Star Fleet ship after the Species 8472 threat had been eliminated, B'Elanna created a power surge through Seven that disabled her. This severed Seven's link to the Collective, and the collective left without coming back for the drone.                === [[Helm and Navigation#Conn Officer|Pilot]] - [[Lieutenant Junior Grade]] [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Paris Tom Paris] ===[[File:Tom Paris (2378).jpg|thumb|left]] Tom had a love of the ocean and sailing: he planned to join the Federation Naval Patrol until his father pressured him into joining [[Star Fleet]]. At the age of eight, his father took him for a trip in an S-class shuttlecraft, and Tom discovered that he loved piloting. He was dismissed from Star Fleet when he tried to cover up a piloting error on his behalf which led to the deaths of three fellow officers. After being expelled from Star Fleet, he joined the [[Maquis]], but was captured on his first mission. Paris was serving time in a Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand when he received a visit from [[Captain]] Janeway. She gave him the opportunity to redeem himself, by participating on a mission to track down the [[Maquis]] who were hiding in the [[Badlands]].   On board ''Voyager,'' he quickly befriended Harry Kim, and began dalliances with any woman that could stand him for the night. A few serious relationships included Kes, on-and-off with the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Delaney_sisters Delaney sisters], and his eventual wife, [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B%27Elanna_Torres B'Elanna]. Hobbies included creating and playing in Holodeck programs, playing practical jokes on friends and colleagues, and enjoying old Earth movies, specifically of the science fiction and horror genre.   Paris was the first Star Fleet officer to reach [[warp 10]]. While experimenting with ways for ''Voyager'' to quicken her journey, he realized that in simulations, the shuttle was being ripped from the [[nacelle]]s, not the the other way around. With a minor adjustment, the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Transwarp_threshold transwarp threshold] could be crossed safely. Despite success in the simulations, the real flight experience caused him to begin to mutate. A disoriented Tom then kidnapped Captain Janeway and took her on a Warp Ten journey, which caused her to mutate as well. When ''Voyager'' found them, they had evolved into amphibians. They produced three offspring which the crew left on the planet. Once back on ''Voyager'', The Doctor was able to "de-evolve" them back to their Human forms. Trans-warp travel was then deemed too dangerous and the idea was abandoned.             === [[Operations Officer|Operations Manager]] - Ensign [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Kim Harry Kim] ===[[File:Harry Kim.jpg|thumb|left]]

Fresh out of the Academy, being stranded in the Delta Quadrant hit Harry pretty hard. With ''Voyager'' being his first field assignment, the Ensign wasn't even sure how to address his Captain. He was quickly befriended by Tom Paris, who, combined with his own rebellious nature, helped Harry instill some confidence in himself over the years. Though he always seemed unlucky in love, Tom continued to set up double-dates between the two men and two female officers known as the Delaney sisters.   Harry's green nature may have labeled him an "easy mark" - he was abducted from [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Caretaker_(Nacene) The Caretaker], the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vhnori Vhnori], the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Akritirian Akritirians], and held captive on-board ''Voyager'' by the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hirogen Hirogen]. What he lacked in experience, however, he made up for in ingenuity. He and friend Tom Paris built the [[Delta Flyer]], a technologically-advanced shuttle, and its successor, the [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Delta_Flyer_(2377) Delta Flyer Mark 2], which became an asset to the ''USS Voyager''.   In addition to tagging along on Tom's holodeck programs, Harry enjoyed a variety of his own hobbies. He played music on both the clarinet and saxophone, and enjoyed sports such as volleyball, Parrises squares, and tennis. Perhaps processing an eidetic memory, Harry claims to remember what it was like inside his mother's womb.           <br><br><br>==Command crewEnlisted Crew Members == === Head of [[Astrometrics]] - [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_of_Nine Seven of Nine] ===[[File:7 of 9.png|thumb|left]] Formerly known as Annika Hansen, the Borg drone known as "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01" was stranded on Voyager while the two fought against beings only identified as [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Species_8472 Species 8472]. Having been assimilated at six years old, the Borg Collective was all that she knew. Her parents were exobiologists investigating the existence of the Borg, and in [[2356]], all three were assimilated. Naturally, being ripped away from the Borg was traumatic for the person the ''Voyager''crew would come to affectionally call "Seven," which took her some time to come to terms with.   Assisted by Harry Kim, Seven of Nine designed and constructed the ship's astrometrics lab, which used Borg technology to plot routes that trimmed several years off of Voyager's journey towards the Alpha Quadrant. She would go on to assist Harry and Tom in building the Delta Flyer shuttlecrafts. When Neelix's knowledge of the Delta Quadrant waned, Seven was there to step in and inform the Captain what the Borg knew about the species or sector in question. Though not one to usually get along with the crew, Seven did not seem to mind being an outsider, though her lack of empathy did make interpersonal relationships problematic.   Ironically enough, one of Seven's first friends was that of a crewmember's child - [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Naomi_Wildman Naomi Wildman]. The young girl, like Seven, also felt out of place on Voyager, since there was no else like her on board. Naomi, who wanted the made-up job of 'Captain's Assistant,' secretly studied Seven, deciding that the Borg pursuit of perfection would help her achieve her goal of working on the bridge. When Seven discovered Naomi spying on her, she befriended her, admiring her ambition. This may have started Seven's knack for babysitting; in [[2376]], ''Voyager'' rescued four "immature" Borg drones: children who had been assimilated. Seven became their den mother of sorts, creating a strict timetable for them, and strived to help them assimilate ''back'' into a more normal way of life. Three of the four children were either returned or adopted, with the oldest choosing to remain on Voyager.  === [[Chief Medical Officer]] (CMO) - "[[2371The Doctor]]" ===  === [[Ambassador]] to the [[Delta Quadrant]] on behalf of [[Star Fleet]] - Neelix ===[[Chief]] [[Morale Officer]], Head [[Chef]]  === [[Nurse]] / Assistant to The Doctor -''[[Kes]] ===

In [[2377]], ''Voyager'' recovered pieces of the [[UESPA]] long-range probe ''[[Friendship 1]]''. Later that year, ''Voyager'' encountered a Borg Transwarp Hub and attempted to use it to return home. The attempt failed, and Voyager was declared lost again in 2378.  ==''Voyager'' references==* [[Delta Quadrant species|Delta Quadrant species encountered by ''Voyager'']]* [[Regions visited by Voyager|Regions visited by ''Voyager'']]* [[USS Voyager dedication plaque|USS ''Voyager'' dedication plaque]] ==The journey of ''Voyager''==At the beginning of its journey, ''Voyager'' was approximately 70,000 light years from Earth. As the [[Milky Way]] has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years, one side of a galactic quadrant equals 50,000 light years. The [[Sol system]] including Earth, is about 25,000 light years from the galactic center; thus, we can conclude that the Caretaker's Array and ''Voyager's'' starting point was on the far edge of our galaxy. At maximum warp, it was estimated that ''Voyager'' would take 75 years to get back to Earth. However, there were various factors which substantially shortened ''Voyager'''s stay in the Delta Quadrant: * '''2374''' - Kes uses her new and more powerful [[psionic energy|psionic abilities]] to push ''Voyager'' 9,500 light years closer to Earth, simultaneously pushing them out of Borg space.* '''2374''' - Using the new [[astrometrics]] lab, [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim]] and [[Seven of Nine]] plot a new course to the Alpha Quadrant that takes 5 years off of Voyager's journey.* '''2374''' - [[Quantum slipstream drive]] technology is discovered aboard the {{USS|Dauntless}}, which brings ''Voyager'' 300 light years closer to home.* '''2375''' - Within a region of space called [[The Void (region)|The Void]], ''Voyager'' discovers a wormhole which brings them 2,500 light years closer to Earth, also having the advantage of sending them out of the dark region they had been trapped in for the last few months.* '''2375''' - ''Voyager'' attempts to use quantum slipstream drive again. The ship travels 10,000 light years before the slipstream collapses due to intervention from an alternate future.* '''2375''' - ''Voyager'' raids a [[Borg sphere]] and manages to steal a [[transwarp coil]]. After using it on a rescue mission in the ''[[Delta Flyer]]'', the coil allows the ship to travel 20,000 light years closer to home.* '''2376''' - ''Voyager'' accidentally enters the [[Vaadwaur]] species' [[underspace corridor]]s, which propel the ship 200 light years from its entry point. The direction, however, was not mentioned.* '''2376''' - ''Voyager'' uses a [[graviton catapult]] designed by an alien called [[Tash]] to travel 600 light years closer to Earth.* '''2377''' - Grateful for her assistance with [[Q (Junior)|his son]], [[Q]] provides Janeway with a map containing a shortcut to the Alpha Quadrant that would shorten ''Voyager''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s journey home by "a few years"; whether they used this route before they managed to reach home wasn't revealed.* '''2378''' - ''Voyager'' ceases contact with Star Fleet Command, and is declared missing once again. No further contact is made.  ==Embarked craft==* [[Aeroshuttle]]* ''[[Baxial]]'' * ''[[Cochrane (shuttlecraft)|Cochrane]]'' * ''[[Delta Flyer]]''* ''[[Delta Flyer II]]''* ''[[Drake (shuttlecraft)|Drake]]''* ''[[Sacajawea]]''* ''[[Tereshkova]]'' {{IntrepidClassStarships}}