VOY Season 6


Episodes

Summary
Star Trek: Voyagers sixth season was the first to be televised without running concurrently with seasons of , and can be characterized as having the feel of being oddly disconnected from seasons four and five that preceded it. As a result, Voyager's season six could be said to have more in common with the story-telling of season one, being populated by numerous episodes with story lines wholly independent of each other and the greater series arc, which by this point, was very well established. There are of course exceptions, most notably in  when real-time communication is made with Starfleet, with the help of an obsessed Reginald Barclay. However, it was not until the end of the season in  that this significant plot development was revisited.

Numerous new aliens were introduced throughout the season, again indicative of the reliance on wholly independent story lines. However, the Hirogen make a re-appearance in , the Klingons in , the Borg make a (by now familiar) resurgence in , ,  and the season finale . The Vidiians also return in , as does a vengeful Kes intent on sabotaging the ship, killing B'Elanna Torres in the process. Only one of the newly introduced alien species (the Hierarchy) reappeared later, in the seventh season episodes  and .

Worthy of particular note in the sixth season is the introduction of the treacherous Vaadwaur in . While being vaunted as a possible season six nemesis for Voyager during a conversation towards the end of the episode, it was perhaps a missed opportunity on the part of the show's producers that the possibility of having the Vaadwaur return later on, was never taken up;

"I doubt we've seen the last of them." 
 - Janeway, to Seven of Nine ()

Despite Janeway's warning, and aside from a couple of conversational "nods" in the season seven episodes,  and , the Vaadwaur were in fact, never seen again.

 halfway through the season added a significant development to the evolution of the series as Voyagers crew manifest grew by four with the introduction of the "Children of the Borg". Season six storylines featuring the children served as an addition to Seven of Nine's learning curve, as she took on the role of surrogate mother to the lost, and disconnected children. Although never directly spoken of in the script for either episode, with the knowledge of hindsight it is possible to note that in , a surreptitious link to the series finale  is planted when Icheb's parents send him back to the Borg full of neurolytic pathogen. It is this same pathogen that Admiral Janeway uses when assimilated by the Borg Queen during the climax to the series finale, which infects the Collective and disables the transwarp hub, enabling Voyager to return home, and deal a crippling blow to the Borg at the same time.

A couple of small "jumps" closer to home were realized in the episodes  and  but nothing like the huge leaps which helped characterize the previous two seasons, and for the majority of season six, any significant "jumps" forward were missing, again likening the sixth season to the first.

The process of overcoming the difficulty in portraying Janeway as both authoritative and feminine that had dogged most of the first four seasons may have begun with season five's  and her dalliance with the Devore Imperium's Kashyk, but the dilemma finally found some resolution with the introduction of another of Tom Paris' holodeck programs and the character of Michael Sullivan. In  and  Janeway is finally able to let her hair down (in more ways than one), and the issue of fraternizing with her subordinates is happily laid to rest. This resolution however, was not without its detractors, including Kate Mulgrew herself.

"When I read that one, I went right over to (Rick) Berman's office and I said "What are you smoking?" I mean, how desperado is this broad!"
 - Kate Mulgrew (speaking at Sacramento, USA Convention 2003 (uploaded on YouTube))

Voyagers sixth season culminated in the assimilation of Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres, as the crew again went head to head with the Borg Queen, this time to assist an underground Borg Resistance threatened with annihilation.

Background information 
 This is the first Star Trek season since TNG Season 6, in 1992, to premiere on its own. This coincided with the end of the seven season run of  in June 1999.
 Discounting season premieres/finales, this was the first season since season 2 not to feature a two-part/movie length episode during its run.
  featured Karen Austin as B'Elanna Torres' mother, one of the actresses apparently short-listed for the original role of Kathryn Janeway.
 "Survival Instinct" is the first time since "Living Witness" in Season 4 that Jeri Ryan appeared in a full Borg outfit.
 When asked what stood out about season six, Robert Beltran commented that he didn't have fun during this season, calling it "dreary and tedious" for him. 
 Characters that "crossover" from other incarnations of Star Trek: Deanna Troi and Reginald Barclay ( and ); Admiral  (); Borg Queen ()

Credits

Guest and co-stars
 VOY Season 6 performers

Crew
Executive Producers
 Rick Berman
 Brannon Braga
Co-Executive Producers
 Joe Menosky
 Ken Biller
Creative Consultants
 Michael Piller
 Jeri Taylor
Supervising Producers
 Peter Lauritson
 Merri Howard
Producers
 Robin Burger
 J.P. Farrell
Co-Producer: Dawn Velazquez
Associate Producer: Stephen Welke
Executive Story Editor: Bryan Fuller
Story Editor: Michael Taylor
Staff Writers
 Robert Doherty
 Raf Green
Unit Production Manager: Brad Yacobian
Production Coordinator: Diane Overdiek
First Assistant Directors
 Jerry Fleck
 Arlene Fukai
Second Assistant Directors
 Michael DeMeritt
 David Trotti
Script Supervisors
 Cosmo Genovese
 Jan Rudolph
Science Consultant: Andre Bormanis
Production Designer: Richard James
Art Director: Louise Dorton
Senior Illustrator/Technical Consultant: Rick Sternbach
Scenic Arts Supervisor/Technical Consultant: Michael Okuda
Scenic Artists
 Wendy Drapanas
 James Van Over
Construction Coordinator: Al Smutko
Property Master: Alan Sims
Set Decorator: Jim Mees
Director of Photography: Marvin Rush, A.S.C.
Chief Lighting Technician: Bill Peets
Key Grip: Randy Burgess
Special Effects: Dick Brownfield
Stunt Coordinator: Dennis Madalone
Video Supervisor: Denise Okuda
Hair Designer: Josee Normand
Hair Stylists
 Charlotte Parker
 Viviane Normand
 Gloria Montmayor
Make-Up Designed and Supervised By: Michael Westmore
Make-Up Artists
 Tina Hoffman
 Scott Wheeler
 James Rohland
 Suzanne Diaz
Costume Designer: Robert Blackman
Wardrobe Supervisor: Carol Kunz
Key Costumers
 Susie Money
 Tom Siegel
 Kim Shull
 Matt Hoffman
 Erin Regan
Set Security
 Lazard Ward
 Steve D'Errico
Casting Executive: Helen Mossler
Casting Directors
 Junie Lowry-Johnson
 Ron Surma
Original Casting By: Nan Dutton, C.S.A.
Film Editors
 Daryl Baskin
 Bob Lederman
 Tom Benko
Composers
(Not a complete list)
 Jay Chattaway ("Equinox, Part II", "Riddles", "Dragon's Teeth", "Pathfinder", "Collective", "Spirit Folk", "Fury", "The Haunting of Deck Twelve")
 Dennis McCarthy ("Survival Instinct", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", "The Voyager Conspiracy", "Virtuoso", "Tsunkatse", "Ashes to Ashes", "Life Line", "Unimatrix Zero")
 David Bell ("Barge of the Dead", "Alice", "Fair Haven", "Memorial", "Child's Play", "Muse")
 Paul Baillargeon ("One Small Step", "Blink of an Eye", "Good Shepherd", "Live Fast and Prosper")
Music Editor: Gerry Sackman
Visual Effects Producer: Dan Curry
Visual Effects Supervisors
 Ronald B. Moore
 Mitch Suskin
Visual Effects Coordinators
 Art Codron
 Liz Castro
Sound Mixer: Alan Bernard
Post Production Coordinator: Monique K. Chambers
Pre-Production Coordinator/Script Coordinator: Lolita Fatjo
Assistant Script Coordinator: Maggie Allen
Production Associates
 David Rossi
 Maril Davis
 Michael O'Halloran
 Nicole Gravett
 Eric Norman
 Terry Matalas
Production Assistants
 Jenny Pray
 Rodney Dugins
 Christopher Petrus
 Gerald Saavedra
Transportation Captain: Stu Satterfield
Drivers
 Larry Dukes
 Cameron Calder
 John Moore
 Ray McLaughlin
Location Manager: Lisa White
DGA Trainee: Melissa St. Onge

Filmed with Panavision cameras and lenses

Main Title Design by
 Santa Barbara Studios
 Dan Curry
Post Production Sound by: 4MC Sound Services
Digital Optical Effects: Digital Magic
Special Video Compositing: CIS, Hollywood
Editing Facilities: Four Media Company
Computer Generated Effects
 Foundation Imaging
 Digital Muse

Uncredited 
 Emmerson Denney - Voice/Dialogue Coach for Albie Selznick ("The Voyager Conspiracy")

Media releases 
 VOY Season 6 UK VHS
 VOY Season 6 DVD

External link
 

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