Every Star Trek: Voyager Season Ranked From Worst To Best

5. Season 3

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This season marked Voyager as finding its feet. It provides some great episodes and does so more consistently than previous entries on this list. The excellent two-parter Future's End and Scorpion Part 1 provide viewers with Voyager's best episodes yet.

Future’s End saw the crew travel back to 90s Los Angeles in an attempt to retrieve 29th century technology. The tension this episode provides is a highlight, while having the crew commenting about the 90s from a 24th century viewpoint is hilariously tongue-in-cheek.

Scorpion Part 1 introduced Species 8472 and Seven of Nine, ending the third season with serious tension and the introduction of one of the most iconic characters in the Star Trek universe. Having Janeway initiating an alliance with the Borg introduces serious risk to the crew, and viewers, like Chakotay, are wary from the beginning. This was a great way to end the season.

On the other end of the spectrum, Favourite Son, The Chute and False Profits lowered the standard of season 3 with these failings marring the overall quality of it. Bringing an Alpha Quadrant species like the Ferengi into the Delta Quadrant in False Profits and putting Harry and Tom in a prison to fight for their survival in The Chute could have led to interesting episodes, however they come across as uninteresting. Favourite Son is similar in that it brings a storyline about Harry being a member of a Delta Quadrant species, which could provide some interesting tension, but instead bores viewers.

While there were a couple episodes that didn't hit the mark, the two episodes that lift the season are able to squeeze it into this spot on the list.

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