However, Enterprise has been released in HD, but the special effects were rendered in 480p and then upscaled. The digital effects were produced at television resolution and some have speculated that it can’t be re-released in HD format without re-creating the special effects. In its later seasons, Voyager featured visual effects from Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse in season six. Season three’s “The Swarm” was the first episode to use Foundation’s effects exclusively. Foundation Imaging was the studio responsible for special effects during Babylon 5‘s first three seasons. This changed when Voyager went fully CGI for certain types of shots midway through season three (late 1996). Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for Voyager‘s opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly episode exteriors were captured with hand-built miniatures of Voyager, its shuttlecraft, and other ships. Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV had previously used CGI to avoid the expense of models, but the Star Trek television department continued using models because they felt they were more realistic. Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots. Costume designer Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager‘s crew would be the same as those on Deep Space Nine.
Voyager was shot on the stages The Next Generation had used, and where the Voyager pilot “Caretaker” was shot in September 1994. Seeds for Voyager‘s backstory, including the development of the Maquis, were placed in several The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. Initial work on Star Trek: Voyager began in 1993, when the seventh and final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the second season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were in production. This was reminiscent of Paramount’s earlier plans to launch its own network by showcasing Star Trek: Phase II in 1977.
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The studio also planned to start a new television network, and wanted the new series to help it succeed. UPN itself would end its production run in 2006.Īs Star Trek: The Next Generation ended, Paramount Pictures wanted to continue to have a second Star Trek TV series to accompany Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Star Trek: Voyager aired on UPN and was the network’s second-longest running series. Four were used throughout the series’ run: Michael Piller (EP/showrunner – first and second season), Jeri Taylor (EP – first through fourth seasons, showrunner – third and fourth seasons), Brannon Braga (EP/showrunner – fifth and sixth seasons), and Kenneth Biller (EP/showrunner – seventh season). He was assisted by a second in command executive producer who generally functioned as the day-to-day showrunner. Berman served as head executive producer in charge of the overall production for the series during its entire run. Voyager was produced for seven seasons, from 1995 to 2001, and is the first Star Trek TV series with a female captain, Kathryn Janeway (played by Kate Mulgrew), as the lead character.
The series was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor, and is the fifth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the original Star Trek series that was created by Gene Roddenberry. Voyager has to make the estimated 75-year journey home.
It follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant (on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy, 70,000 light-yearsfrom Earth) while searching for a renegade Maquis ship. The series takes place during the years 2371 to 2378. that debuted in 1995 and ended its original run in 2001, with a classic “ship in space” formula like the preceding Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Dolby Surround 2.0 (original broadcast).