10 Greatest Star Trek Season Finales

10. Hope And Fear - Voyager Season Four

The closing episode in one of Star Trek: Voyager's stronger seasons sees a resolution, of sorts, of the antagonism between Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway. For the entire year, Seven had struggled with the individuality that had been thrust upon her. Here, faced with the choice of returning to the Collective, she finally accepts her home among the Voyager crew.

The introduction of Arturis may be a bit of a Ray Wise-Ex-Machina at this stage in the season, but the performance is solid, and the Dauntless is a stellar design, one that returned in Star Trek: Enterprise, and was the basis of the new Dauntless in Prodigy. It also gave us slipstream drive, something that would serve as crucial plot points in future episodes.

Despite the high stakes of the episode, it truly feels like a character piece, focusing on the two female leads of the show. Their chemistry is undeniable, which without treading well-worn ground, is all the more impressive with what was happening behind the scenes.

Hope And Fear firmly establishes Seven's choice to stay with her new family, her new Collective, and despite the tragedy of Arturis's position, one feels that Seven and Janeway's resolution is the true happy ending of the season.