Star Trek Voyager - Season 3 (Slimline Edition) [DVD]

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Product Description ------------------- All 26 episodes from Season 3 of the third 'Star Trek' spin-off. The opening episode, 'Basics (Part 2)' concludes the story from the end of the last season that saw the Voyager crew stranded on a planet while the Kazon ran off with the ship. 'Flashback' a celebration of 30 years of Star Trek, features Tuvok mind-melding with Janeway and revealing his service on board the Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu from the original series. In 'The Chute' Tom and Harry find themselves wrongly accused of terrorism after a brain im overpowers their reason. In 'The Swarm' the Doctor's memory circuits are overloaded, and he might have to lose all the knowledge gained over the last two years. In 'False Profits' the crew of the Voyager come across a briefly appearing wormhole near a planet that is giving off signals from Alpha Quadrant technology. In 'Remember' Torres experiences some vivid and dreams that become more and more troubled. In 'Sacred Ground' Kes wanders onto a sacred site during a visit to a local planet, and is knocked cold by a protective force-field. In 'Future's End (Part 1)', the Voyager finds itself under attack from Federation time-ship Aeon. In 'Future's End (Part 2)', the crew of Voyager must stop the megalomaniac entrepreneur Starling from using the Federation Time Ship Aeon in the 21st Century. In 'Warlord' Kes finds her body taken over by a malevolent and powerful warlord who plans one final manouevre in an ongoing war with his neighbours. In 'The Q and the Grey' Captain Janeway is in for a shock when Q returns and proposes marriage - but his reasons are not entirely ruled by his heart. In 'Macrocosm' Janeway and Neelix return to the ship only to find that a virus has taken over and assumed a physical form. In 'Fair Trade' the Voyager stops at a trading station on the edge of some notorious space and Neelix meets up with an old friend in need of help. In 'Alter Ego' Harry approaches Tuvok with an unusual problem - he has fallen in love with a holodeck character. In 'Coda' Janeway finds herself in a time-loop with ever more terrifying consequences. In 'Blood Fever' a young Vulcan Ensign, Vorik, experiences overpowering desires to mate with Torres. In 'Unity' Chakotay is attacked while on an away mission, and when he awakens he finds that his rescuers are not all they seem. In 'The Darkling' the holographic doctor tries to improve his personality, but his methods bring about the creation of an evil monster. In 'Rise' Tuvok and Neelix become stranded on the surface of a planet. As they struggle for survival, they realise that someone in their group is a traitor. In 'Favourite Son' Harry Kim blatantly disregards the captain's orders, opens fire on a peaceful planet and declares that he is not human and must return to his home. Kes finds herself living as a married, old woman in 'Before and After'. She soon realises that she is trapped in a temporal anomaly and is travelling backwards in time. In 'Real Life', the Holographic Doctor creates a complete holographic family so he can have a more fulfilling life. In 'Distant Origin', a scientist from a race of lizard-like creatures is trying to prove that his race are descended from a group of bipeds from a distant sector of the galaxy. In 'Worst Case Scenario', Chakotay leads a Maquis rebellion on Voyager leading to the kipping of all Starfleet officers and the expulsion of Janeway from the ship. In 'Displaced', the crew of Voyager are surprised when an unexpected alien guest arrives on the ship and Kes disappears. In the chilling, cliff-hanging season finale, 'Scorpion (Part 1)', Voyager realise that they have to travel near Borg space on their route home. However, they discover that Starfleet's lethal foes are fighting a losing battle with a stronger enemy from another universe. .co.uk Review ------------- After proving its long-term potential in season 2, Star Trek: Voyager served up some of the best episodes in its entire seven-year history. The second-season cliffhanger was intelligently resolved in "Basics, Pt. II," and the fan-favorite "Flashback" placed Tuvok (Tim Russ) aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior from Star Trek VI, under the command of Capt. Sulu (Star Trek alumnus George Takei). It was a brilliant example of interseries plotting, just as "False Profits" was a Ferengi-based sequel to the NextGen episode "The Price." The two-part time-travel scenario of "Future's End" is a Voyager highlight, with clear echoes (including dialogue lifted verbatim!) of Star Trek's classic "The City on the Edge of Forever," featuring delightful guest performances by actress-comedienne Sarah Silverman and Ed Begley Jr. Character-wise, the season belonged to Kes (Jennifer Lien, whose tenure on the series was now near its end), Neelix (Ethan Phillips), and the Doctor (Robert Picardo), who shined (respectively) in "Warlord," "Fair Trade," and the surprisingly touching "Real Life" (the latter directed by "Potsie" himself, Happy Days veteran Anson Williams). By infecting B'Elanna (Roxanne Dawson) with a fellow officer's "Blood Fever," Voyager delved into the turbulent Vulcan ritual of Pon Farr, while the cliffhanger "Scorpion" introduced the relentless, Borg-destroying villains of Species 8472, which would pose a continuing threat in subsequent episodes. Season 3 had a few clunkers (the guilty pleasure "Macrocosm" puts Janeway in stripped-down "Ripley" mode against invading macro-viruses, and Ensign Kim is an awkward "Favorite Son" to a bevy of babes), but for every misstep there's a strong science-fiction concept, like the highly-evolved Hadrosaurs in "Distant Origin," which doubles as a compelling indictment of institutionalized repression. Overall, this is rock-solid Trek, and the DVD features are equally engaging, albeit growing more perfunctory (especially the season 3 summary) with each full-season release. Don't forget the Easter eggs hidden on the special-features menus, however; they contain some of the set's happiest surprises. --Jeff Shannon