Star Trek: Voyager premiered at 8 p.m. on this day twenty-five years ago.
io9 looks back and Tor launches a rewatch.
It was the headline launch show for the United Paramount Network, taking up the entire two-hour opening night, a big demonstration of trust in the Star Trek name. It was the only show in the original lineup to last more than thirteen episodes! (Even then, the first season ran to fifteen including the opening two-hour pilot, with four more being held back to start season two early. The 37s would have been a much better season finale than Learning Curve, though it also worked as the season two opener.)
It was a back-to-basics planet-of-the-week show compared to Deep Space Nine and even the big luxury Enterprise of The Next Generation. As a result some of the built-in conflicts and issues never went as far as they might have (until Battlestar Galactica took some of it and ran) but it still provided some classics like Year Of Hell, The Void, and, of course, Bride Of Chaotica!
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