VHS - Star Trek - Voyager, Episodes 1 & 2: Caretaker (Pilot) [VHS]

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Star Trek - Voyager, Episodes 1 & 2: Caretaker (Pilot) [VHS]

starring: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792163466
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 079216346X
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 1995

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Editorial Review:A program that never entirely made up its mind what it's supposed to be about, Star Trek: Voyager began life in 1995 with some truly fascinating prospects in its two-hour pilot episode, "Caretaker." "Caretaker" opens in the 24th century, a setting contemporary with that of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Carrying over story elements from each of those series, Voyager's debut finds Starfleet Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) stepping into the middle of Federation troubles with the Maquis, an army of rebels violently resisting the interplanetary organization's treaty with brutal Cardassians. Janeway hopes to intercept a Maquis cell that unknowingly has a Starfleet spy, Tuvok (Tim Russ), in its midst. Instead, both Voyager and the Maquis ship under surveillance are accidentally catapulted out of the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant (the familiar stomping grounds of Starfleet personnel) by a benign but dying being called the Caretaker. Voyager ends up in the unexplored Delta Quadrant, some 70,000 light years away. Several of Voyager's key crew members are killed during the mishap, prompting an agreement with the skilled Maquis fugitives to cooperate on returning home. So much seemed dramatically promising in this debut of Star Trek: Voyager, especially the unwieldy alliance of Starfleet regulars and hostile Maquis, and the likelihood that a lifetime spent in isolation, trying to get home, would lead to the development of a self-contained society on the ship. The curiously cheesy sets and fascinating, progressive management style of Janeway (half mommy, half taskmaster) were also new developments in Star Trek culture. Yet things didn't turn out to be quite so intriguing or original as the years passed--though that doesn't mean Voyager isn't a sporadically good show. It just isn't the one that "Caretaker" seemed to promise. --Tom Keogh

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- After watching "Caretaker", I was hooked
I'd watch an episode of Star Trek if there was nothing else on to watch, but for some reason, something about "Voyager" intrigued me. After watching "Caretaker", I was instantly hooked.Kate Mulgrew makes a superb showing as Trek's first female captain. "Voyager" has many firsts that have never before been done in Star Trek, such as being so far away from home. Other episodes have lost contact with Starfleet, but they've still be close enough to home. Voyager is out there in the middle ... Read More

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- Converted a non-trekkie
I watched the pilot and for a college woman who could care less about star wars or star trek, I was intrigued by the plot and eventually I came to find Voyager to be one of the best shows on TV simply because of the lessons we mere humans can learn from this utopia imagined by roddenberry.

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- SIMPLY THE BEST
STAR TREK VOYAGER IS THE BEST BUT I NEED ALL SEASONS IN DVD PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- A Good Start For Voyager
"Star Trek-Voyager" is the fourth series in the ever-lasting sci-fi franchise, and it's like "Lost In Space", but with a Federation crew, and they have definitely gone where no man has gone before.
As Captain Kathryn Janeway, Kate Mulgrew surely commands respect as she and her crew are blasted 70,000 light years away from home by some array called the 'Caretaker'. The crew itself is quite diverse and interesting, especially Chakotay (Robert Beltran), Tuvok (Tim Russ), Tom Paris (Robert Duncan ... Read More

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- The 1995 Pilot.
Days before this episode aired on UPN, Robert Picardo hosted a special, to tell the audience, what Star Trek: Voyager is about.In late 2371, a renegade group known as the Maquis operate outside the law to right what they see as Federation injustices. After infiltrating a Maquis cell to apprise Starfleet of the group's activities, Lieutenant Tuvok, along with the crew of a ship commanded by the Maquis captain Chakotay, disappear in an area of space known as the Badlands. Tuvok's commanding ... Read More

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