Voyager’s 10 Biggest TNG Callbacks

Over his seven seasons, Star Trek: Voyager featured several callbacks to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Less than a year after the 1994 series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager Promised a return to form for Star Trek TV shows still Star Trek: Deep Space Nines space station setting. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) USS Enterprise-D, Captain Kathryn Janeway’s (Kate Mulgrew) USS Voyager took viewers on episodic journeys through the final frontier, with stops along the way to explore the strange new worlds of the Delta Quadrant.

To strengthen the idea of Star Trek: Voyager As a worthy successor to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager Rarely shied away from making references to the former Star Trek Show. From familiar concepts to series regulars, Star Trek: Voyager Found ways to incorporate letters from Star Trek: The Next GenerationDespite being set on the other side of the galaxy. Things from the Alpha Quadrant are found in the Delta Quadrant with surprising regularity Star Trek: VoyagerWhich only contributed to the concept of a shed Star Trek universe and the promise of Voyager’s return home.

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The Origin of Lieutenant Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill)

Tom Paris was almost TNG’s Nick Locarno

Star Trek: Voyagers biggest call back to Star Trek: The Next Generation Was almost a series regular who was once a TNG guest star Robert Duncan McNeil TNG character, Starfleet Academy Cadet Nick Locarno, originated in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 19, “The First Duty”, as leader of Wesley Crusher’s (Wil Wheaton) Nova Squadron. Locarno was originally planned to appear as a regular character in Star Trek: Voyager But would have been an expensive, irredeemable addition, so Tom Paris was created instead.

Except the same actor is playing The foundations of Nick Locarno remain in Tom Paris, the character who actually made it Star Trek: Voyager. Both characters were pilots responsible for the deaths of crewmates whose Starfleet careers were cut short, leading to speculation that Paris was simply Locarno using a pseudonym. Star Trek: Lower Decks Cleared up the confusion by featuring both characters in very different circumstances.

9

The Bar G Cooperative

Members of the cooperative were assimilated at Wolf 359

in Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 17, “Unity”, Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran) is aided by a small colony of Alpha Quadrant species that somehow made it all the way out to the Delta Quadrant after being captured. Chakotay soon discovers that their captors are none other than the BorgAnd the motley crew is still connected to one another despite recovering their identities as individuals.

The members of The Borg Cooperative can trace their capture back to the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet’s stand against the Borg team in Star Trek: The Next GenerationSeason 3 and 4 two-parter, “The Best of Both Worlds”. Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) brief time as Locust of Borg would go on to have a greater influence on Star Trek: Voyager Episodes that followed “Unity”.

8

Starfleet Academy & Boothby (Ray Walston)

Species 8472 recreates the Academy to understand Starfleet

After Captain Janeway trades safe passage through Borg space for helping the Borg defeat liquid space aliens Species 8472 in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, Species 8472 recreated Starfleet Academy in normal space in an effort to better understand their new Federation enemies. The species 8472 version of​​​​Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 4, “Into the Flesh”, was a near-perfect facsimile of the academy seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, episode 19, “The First Duty”, and even featured Ray Walston’s return as Starfleet Academy groundskeeper and Jean-Luc Picard’s mentor, Boothby.

Another version of Groundskeeper Boothby appeared in Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 19, “The Fight”, as part of Commander Chakotay’s boxing program on the holodeck. Non-corporeal aliens trying to communicate with Chakotay took the form of Boothby In the same episode, after picking up Boothby’s memory as Chakotay’s coach.

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Kol (Leslie Jordan) & Arridor (Dan Shor), Ferengi Negotiators

Rule of Acquisition 22: “A wise man can hear profit in the wind”

Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, episode 5, “False Profits” served as a direct Star Trek Sequel episode to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 8, “The Price”. in the TNG episode, two Ferengi named Kol (JR Quinonez) and Arridor (Dan Shor) were among those negotiating to buy access to the Barzan wormhole. on a test flight, The pair of Ferengi entrepreneurs are caught in the not-so-stable wormhole as its terminus areasleaving them stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

naturally, Star Trek: Voyagers delta quadrant setting ment Star Trek May follow the Ferengi of “The Price”, who capitalized on their new location to pose as storied religious figures to a pre-warp civilization. “False profits” answered a question that probably did not burn in the back of anyone’s mindBut still tied neatly back to a specific moment in Star Trek: The Next Generation to combine the two Star Trek points together.

6

Captain Geordie Le Forge (LeVar Burton)

Voyager’s alternate future features La Forge with his own command

In the alternate future timeline of Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 6, “Timeless”, Star Trek: The Next Generations Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) is promoted to captain, and commands the USS Challenger in the year 2390. Fifteen years after a quantum slipstream accident destroyed the USS Voyager and the rest of her crew, Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and Chakotay figure out how to save Voyager, but their efforts have them labeled as Federation traitors, and Captain Le Forge is Accused of stopping. them.

Because the alternate future shown in “Timeless” is erased after Harry Kim’s message to the past, the version of ​​Geordi La Forge is with him. It is not unreasonable to think that La Forge would reach Captaincy by 2390However, since Geordi appeared as Commodore La Forge in Star Trek: Picard Season 3’s Star Trek: The Next Generation cast reunion.

5

Commander William Ricker (Jonathan Frakes)

Q uses Riker to prove a point

in Star Trek: Voyager Season 2, Episode 18, “Death Wish”, Q (John de Lancie) pays a visit to the USS Voyager hoping to prevent another member of the Q Continuum, Quinn (Gerrit Graham), from ending his life. In order to prove that Queen’s existence has a net positive effect on humanity, K called Star Trek: The Next GenerationCommander William Ricker As one of three witnesses.

During Ricker’s brief Star Trek: Voyager The appearance, Q pointed out that Riker would not exist without Quinn saving the life of William’s Civil War-era ancestor, Thaddeus Riker; And without Ricker, humanity would have been wiped out by the Borg in the Battle of Wolf 359. (Never mind the fact that K introduced the Borg to the Alpha Quadrant in the first place…) Unfortunately, Ricker’s memory was erased after the hearingSo he can’t report back to Starfleet about the USS. Voyager’s Delta Quadrant jam.

4

Counselor Diana Troy (Marina Sirtis)

Troy is Lot’s therapist and friend. Barclay in Voyager

Marina Sirtis appeared in Star Trek: Voyager as Counselor Deanna Troy in conjunction with Dwight Schultz’s return as Reginald Barclay. Over her 3-episode Voyager agree, Troy is still providing counseling services to Lieutenant BarclayAlthough Barclay was assigned to Jupiter Station after transferring from the Enterprise. Deanna’s familiarity with Barclay’s holo-addiction means she’s standing by to help when a potential relapse puts Barclay’s Starfleet career at risk.

It’s great to see Deanna Troi extend the kind of compassion she’s been known for Star Trek: The Next Generation By continuing to retain Barclay as a client. It’s even better than that Star Trek: Voyager Recognize counselor Troy as a competent professionalwhat Star Trek: The Next Generation Took several years and a costume change to do. That tracks with Star Trek: Voyager As a more female-focused Star Trek Show.

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Lieutenant Reginald Barkley (Dwight Schultz)

Barclay from TNG brought Voyager back home

After first appearing as a holographic version of himself in Star Trek: Voyager Season 2, Episode 3, “Projections”, Star Trek: The Next Generations Lieutenant Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) played a huge role in bringing the U.S.S. Voyager back home of the Delta Quadrant over several episodes in Star Trek: Voyagers 6 and 7 season. With his expertise in holograms, Barkley also brought the Doctor (Robert Picardo) to the Alpha Quadrant Temporarily, in order to treat the creator of the AMH, Dr. Louis Zimmerman (Robert Picardo).

Barclay’s social anxiety and desperate longing for acceptance are still key parts of his character at six Star Trek: Voyager Appearances. Reg’s obsession with a holographic Voyager crew echoed Barclay’s strange parasocial relationships with the Enterprise crew in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 21, “Hollow Pursuits”, however Barclay’s regular appointments with counselor Troy proved that he was committed to improving his mental health. As one of the Pathfinder project experts in VoyagerBarclay proved that he had found his true place in Starfleet.

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Q (John de Lancie) & the Q continuum

Voyager turns the tables on Q

The trilogy of Star Trek: Voyager Episodes that John de Lancie’s Q have been in form a mini-arc on their own, since The introduction of euthanasia to the Q continuum in “Death Wish” has consequences that result in the Q Civil War In “The Q and the Grey”, where Q’s solution to the Continuum’s infighting is to reproduce. (Janeway, of course, isn’t volunteering.) The child born of Q’s union with Miss Q (Suzie Plakson) returns as the teenage Q Junior (Keegan de Lancie) in “Q2,” with all the quirks one can imagine. Expect from an omnipotent teenager.

Star Trek: VoyagerQ’s episodes came with an interesting twist of Q’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Appearances, which more often than not test the morale of the Enterprise crew. Instead of putting Captain Janeway and the USS Voyager crew through their own trials, The moral lens is held on the Q Continuum to determine whether Star Treks omnipotent beings really made the right call.

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The Castle and the Castle Queen (Susannah Thompson, Alice Krieg)

Janeway & Picard shared their greatest enemy

The inclusion of the Borg in Star Trek: Voyager was all but inevitable, since Star Trek: The Next Generation established that the Borg originated in the Delta Quadrant. Start in Voyagers4 season, Star Trek: Voyager incorporated the Borg much more than Star Trek: The Next Generation Ever had. The addition of seven of nine (Jerry Ryan) allowed Star Trek To deconstruct the Borg as a real species with their own culture and motive instead of just a force of nature. With insider information from Seven, VoyagerS Borg could theoretically be reasoned with, and Captain Janeway certainly tried.

Star Trek: Voyagers Borg Queen (Suzanna Thompson) took an interest in Seven of Nine as a freed drone, and – perhaps more importantly – in Captain Kathryn Janeway, since Janeway may be the only Starfleet officer stubborn enough to try to defeat the Borg team through sheer force of will.. Janeway’s victory against the Borg Queen (Alice Krieg) in “Endgame” has consequences that ripple through to Star Trek: PicardAnd finally closes the loop that links Star Trek: Voyager to Star Trek: The Next Generation.