Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

Voyager season five saw Jeri Taylor depart the show and Brannon Braga take over as show runner. The focus of the episodes settled firmly on Seven of Nine and Janeway, leading some detractors to dub the series 'the Seven and Janeway show'. It was during this season that Chakotay actor Robert Beltran started to become more vocal in his critique of Voyager's direction.

However, the season saw a deeper exploration of the theme of family and gave greater focus on ongoing issues or individual traumas. Torres, devastated by the news of the Maquis' destruction by the Dominion, begins to self-harm in the episode Extreme Risk. Tom Paris faces demotion and incarceration in Thirty Days.

The Doctor struggles with the ethics of his decisions in Latent Image, while even Harry Kim runs afoul of Janeway in The Disease.

An arguable omen kicked off the season, with a fire breaking out on the Deck One sets during a publicity photo shoot. No one was injured, but it required a team to rebuild several elements of the bridge.

Ironically, as Voyager had begun producing darker yet deeper episodes, culminating in both the fantastic Dark Frontier and Equinox Part One, the audience ratings slipped a little. The show seemed to have hit its peak in seasons three and four, beginning to slip here in terms of viewers. It could be that the more sombre tone that seeped throughout the season affected this, something that was rectified going into the final two seasons.