Space race
A "space race" was a term used to describe an informal competition to be the first in a specific space-based advancement.

In 2375, Captain Kathryn Janeway claimed the crew of the , who was in the midst of building the , had an "old fashioned space race" on their hands when they discovered the Malon were also building a spacecraft that could survive a voyage into the atmosphere of a gas giant. The first to complete their craft would likely be the crew to retrieve the Voyagers multi-spatial probe, which was stuck in the gas giant's extreme atmosphere. ()

Voyager later unwittingly became the catalyst for a space race on Kelemane's planet. ()

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