VOY Season 6

Summary
Star Trek: Voyager's 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 (and hugely popular) 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 Voyager's 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))

Voyager's 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.
 * This is the first Star Trek season since 1987 that doesn't feature any appearances by Michael Dorn as Worf.
 * 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.

Cast

 * Starring:
 * Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway
 * Also Starring:
 * Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
 * Roxann Dawson as Lieutenant jg B'Elanna Torres
 * Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant jg Tom Paris
 * Ethan Phillips as Neelix
 * Robert Picardo as The Doctor
 * Tim Russ as Lieutenant commander Tuvok
 * Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
 * Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine

Crew
Co-Producer: Dawn Velazquez
 * 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 Bernheim
 * J.P. Farrell

Associate Producer: Stephen Welke

Executive Story Editor: Bryan Fuller

Story Editor: Michael Taylor

Unit Production Manager: Brad Yacobian
 * Staff Writers:
 * Robert Doherty
 * Raf Green

Production Coordinator: Diane Overdiek

Science Consultant: Andre Bormanis
 * First Assistant Directors:
 * Jerry Fleck
 * Arlene Fukai
 * Second Assistant Directors:
 * Michael DeMeritt
 * David Trotti
 * Script Supervisors:
 * Cosmo Genovese
 * Jan Rudolph

Production Designer: Richard James

Art Director: Louise Dorton

Senior Illustrator/Technical Consultant: Rick Sternbach

Scenic Arts Supervisor/Technical Consultant: Michael Okuda

Construction Coordinator: Al Smutko
 * Scenic Artists:
 * Wendy Drapanas
 * James Van Over

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

Make-Up Designed and Supervised By: Michael Westmore
 * Hair Stylists:
 * Charlotte Parker
 * Viviane Normand
 * Gloria Montmayor

Costume Designer: Robert Blackman
 * Make-Up Artists:
 * Tina Hoffman
 * Scott Wheeler
 * James Rohland
 * Suzanne Diaz

Wardrobe Supervisor: Carol Kunz

Casting Executive: Helen Mossler
 * Key Costumers:
 * Susie Money
 * Tom Siegel
 * Kim Shull
 * Matt Hoffman
 * Erin Regan
 * Set Security:
 * Lazard Ward
 * Steve D'Errico

Original Casting By: Nan Dutton, C.S.A.
 * Casting Directors:
 * Junie Lowry-Johnson
 * Ron Surma

Music Editor: Gerry Sackman
 * Film Editors:
 * Daryl Baskin
 * Bob Lederman
 * Tom Benko
 * Composers:
 * Dennis McCarthy
 * Jay Chattaway
 * David Bell
 * Paul Baillargeon

Visual Effects Producer: Dan Curry

Sound Mixer: Alan Bernard
 * Visual Effects Supervisors:
 * Ronald B. Moore
 * Mitch Suskin
 * Visual Effects Coordinators:
 * Art Codron
 * Liz Castro

Post Production Coordinator: Monique K. Chambers

Pre-Production Coordinator/Script Coordinator: Lolita Fatjo

Assistant Script Coordinator: Maggie Allen

Transportation Captain: Stu Satterfield
 * 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

Location Manager: Lisa White
 * Drivers:
 * Larry Dukes
 * Cameron Calder
 * John Moore
 * Ray McLaughlin

DGA Trainee: Melissa St. Onge

Filmed with Panavision cameras and lenses

Post Production Sound by: 4MC Sound Services
 * Main Title Design by:
 * Santa Barbara Studios
 * Dan Curry

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")

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