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The '''USS ''Voyager'' (NCC-74656)''' was an [[Intrepid class|''Intrepid''-class]] [[Federation]] [[starship]]. It was launched in [[2371]] and was under the command of [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]]. The ship featured improved computer systems in which some traditional optical processors were replaced with [[Bio-neural circuitry|bio-neural circuitry]]. ''Voyager'' was also equipped with conventional [[Isolinear circuitry|isolinear optical circuits]]. ''Voyager'' also had the capability of landing on the surface of a [[Class M|Class-M]] planet, then returning to space.
  
The '''USS ''Voyager'' (NCC-74656)''' was an [[Intrepid class|''Intrepid''-class]] [[Federation]] [[starship]]. It was launched in [[2371]] and was under the command of [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]]. The ship featured improved computer systems in which some traditional optical processors were replaced with [[Bio-neural circuitry|bio-neural circuitry]]. ''Voyager'' was also equipped with conventional [[Isolinear circuitry|isolinear optical circuits]]. ''Voyager'' also had the capability of landing on the surface of a [[Class M|Class-M]] planet, then returning to space.

Revision as of 19:03, 14 September 2006

The USS Voyager (NCC-74656) was an Intrepid-class Federation starship. It was launched in 2371 and was under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. The ship featured improved computer systems in which some traditional optical processors were replaced with bio-neural circuitry. Voyager was also equipped with conventional isolinear optical circuits. Voyager also had the capability of landing on the surface of a Class-M planet, then returning to space.

Command Crew

(2371-2378)

Enlisted crewmembers:

Deceased:

Voyager's entire medical crew, including her CMO as well as her Chief Engineer were also killed in 2371.

The nature of Voyager's first mission did not require a Counselor.

See also: USS Voyager personnel for a complete list of personnel

Deckplan

A schematic of the interior of Voyager
Deck Facilities
Deck 1
Deck 2
Deck 3
Deck 4
Deck 5
Deck 6
Deck 7
Deck 8
Deck 9
Deck 10
  • Shuttle Hangar
Deck 11
Deck 12
Deck 13
Deck 14
Deck 15

History

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Voyager in drydock

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USS Voyager docked at Deep Space Nine

The USS Voyager was constucted at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards orbiting Mars and was launched from Earth Station McKinley on stardate 48038.5 in 2371. Voyager was the first ship equipped with a class-9 warp drive. The ship later docked at Deep Space 9 to begin its first mission. The mission was to track down a Maquis ship, the Val Jean, in the Badlands under the command of former Starfleet officer Chakotay. The mission was only meant to last a few weeks.

In the Badlands, both the Maquis ship and Voyager were hit by a displacement wave created by the Caretaker entity, by which both ships were thrown 70,000 lightyears from their original location to the outer edge of the Delta Quadrant.

Q said in VOY: "Death Wish" that he "hoped Riker" would have taken command of the USS Voyager, which may mean he was offered command of that ship before Janeway.

In the Delta Quadrant

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Voyager leaves Deep Space 9

Voyager officially lost contact with Starfleet on stardate 48307.5 for being too great a distance away from the Alpha Quadrant. Since the Val Jean was severely damaged, its entire surviving crew were transfered to the USS Voyager to embark on the journey home. Several key positions aboard Voyager, emptied by heavy casualties, were filled by their adopted Maquis crew. The chief medical officer was permanently replaced by the EMH, which was originally designed for brief periods of operation only.

On the first few days in the Delta Quadrant, Voyager encountered three new species, including the Talaxians, Ocampa and Kazon. A Talaxian named Neelix and an Ocampa named Kes became crewmembers on Voyager after the Caretaker died.

In 2373, Voyager encountered Species 8472, more powerful than the Borg. During this time, Voyager made a temporary alliance with the Borg, involving themselves for a short time in the Borg-Species 8472 War. Voyager developed nanoprobe weapons for use against Species 8472, who eventually retreated from the war. After this incident, a Borg drone called Seven of Nine became a part of Voyager's crew. At this time, Kes also left Voyager because of her growing telepathic abilities.

Starfleet presumed the Voyager to be destroyed in the Badlands until 2374, when the ship's EMH was transmitted to the Federation starship USS Prometheus using a Hirogen owned relay station. The ship, at the time, had been taken over by Romulans. The Doctor, with assistance by an EMH Mark II, returned the ship to Starfleet, and spoke directly to Starfleet Headquarters to set the record straight. The ship's inventory included 32 class-6 photon torpedoes at this time.

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The senior staff of the Voyager in astrometrics

After the EMH reported Voyager's situation, Starfleet's Communications Research Center set up the Pathfinder Project to find a way to bring back or maintain constant contact with the ship. This project was under the command of Cmdr. Peter Harkins and was supervised by Admiral Owen Paris. However, the driving force behind the ambitious task to reestablish communications with Voyager was Lieutenant Reginald Barclay.

In 2375, Voyager found the USS Equinox, which had also been stranded in the Delta Quadrent by the Caretaker. Captain Janeway eventually found out that the crew of the Equinox had been performing criminal experiments on a species of nucleogenic creatures. Janeway adopted the remaining crew of the Equinox and put them to work on Voyager under high security.

In early 2376, first contact between Starfleet Command and the Voyager was finally established over the MIDAS array using an artificial microwormhole. Although the periods of data transfer were very limited, Starfleet was not only able to transmit tactical updates to the Voyager crew, but also enabled private conversations between Voyagers crewmembers and their relatives in the Alpha Quadrant.

In 2377, Voyager recovered pieces of the UESPA long-range probe Friendship 1. The following year, Voyager was able to return to Earth with the assistance of an alternate timeline version of Captain Janeway. This Admiral Janeway, who time-traveled from the early 25th century, provided her younger counterpart with sophisticated anti-Borg technology, which included transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor generator technology, in order for Voyager to enjoy safe passage through a Borg transwarp hub. When Voyager reached the hub guided by Admiral Janeway, she ordered the crew to enter, but Captain Janeway was reluctant to waste the opportunity to severely cripple the Borg's infrastructure.

After figuring out a way to destroy the hub, Voyager proceeded into one of the apertures while the Admiral infiltrated the Borg Queen's hive, where she was assimilated. However, Admiral Janeway had previously injected herself with a neurolytic pathogen. The assimilation prompted the release of the neurolytic pathogen in the Collective via the Borg Queen. This weakened the shielding for the interspatial manifolds located in subspace and Voyager destroyed one hub with three transphasic torpedoes, resulting in a cascading shockwave reaction. While trying to outrun the shockwave, a Borg sphere pursued Voyager and attempted to capture it. Upon exiting the transwarp conduit in the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager (now captured) launched a single transphasic torpedo, destroying the sphere. Thus the conduit, the entire Borg transwarp network and Unimatrix One were destroyed. A fleet of starships, assembled in response to sensor readings indicating a Borg energy signature, greeted Voyager as she exited the conduit and escorted her home.

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Voyager is escorted home

In total, Voyager spent seven years in the Delta Quadrant before returning to Federation space. The original estimate of the time needed for the return trip had been 75 years, but intervention by numerous alien races, spatial anomalies, and the acquisition of new technologies considerably shortened the starship's stay in the Delta Quadrant. During the course of its time spent in the Delta Quadrant Voyager made first contact with over 400 species, repeatedly engaged the Borg and numerous other hostile species, suffered the loss of several crew members, and greatly expanded the Federation's knowledge of the galaxy.

Voyager references

The journey of the "Voyager" in numbers and events that shortened the voyage

At the beginning of its journey, Voyager is approximately 70.000 lightyears from Earth. As the Milky Way has a diameter of ca. 100.000 lightyears, one side of a galactic quadrant equals 50.000 lightyears. The Sol system including Earth, is about 25.000 lightyears 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, not that far away from the border of the Delta Quadrant to intergalactic space. At maximum warp, it was estimated that Voyager would take 75 years 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 abilities to push Voyager 9,500 light years closer to Earth. (VOY: "The Gift")
  • 2374 - Quantum slipstream drive technology is discovered aboard the USS Dauntless, which brings Voyager 300 light years closer to home. (VOY: "Hope and Fear")
  • 2375 - Within a region of space called the Void, Voyager discovers a wormhole which brings them 2,500 light years closer to Earth. (VOY: "Night")
  • 2375 - Voyager attempts to use quantum slipstream drive again. The ship travels 10,000 light years before the slipstream collapses. (VOY: "Timeless")
  • 2375 - Voyager raids a Borg sphere and steals a transwarp coil. The coil allows the ship to travel 20,000 light years closer to home. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
  • 2376 - Voyager uses the Vaadwaur species' subspace corridors to propel the ship 200 light years closer to Earth. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
  • 2376 - Voyager uses a subspace catapult designed by an alien called Tash to travel 600 light years closer to Earth. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")
  • 2377 - Grateful for her assistance, Q provides Janeway with a map to a shortcut to the Alpha Quadrant that would shorten Voyager 's journey home. (VOY: "Q2")
  • 2378 - Voyager concludes its trip home by using the Borg transwarp network to return to the Alpha Quadrant, while destroying it with the help of an alternate-future-timeline Admiral Kathryn Janeway. (VOY: "Endgame")

Combining these distances, Voyager was able to cover 43.100 lightyears in addition to the way it covered by normal means at warp speed. As a result, in only seven years the ship was able to cover at least the first half of its journey before it finally reached Earth in a Borg transwarp conduit. Furthermore, it is safe to say, that Voyager must have been very close to the Beta Quadrant, and might even already have crossed its borders during the last months of its journey.

Embarked Craft

References

See Also

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