USS Voyager (Star Trek)

USS Voyager (NCC-74656)

the USS Voyager, NCC-74656
First appearance	"Caretaker"
Launched	2371
General characteristics
Class	Intrepid
Registry	NCC-74656
Maximum speed	Slip Stream Velocity
Armaments	Tricobalt Device Photon torpedoes Phasers Transphasic Torpedoes
Defenses	Shields Ablative hull armor
Propulsion	Warp drive Slip Stream Drive Impulse engines RCS Thrusters
Power	Matter/antimatter reactor, fusion reactor, holoreactor
Length	343 meters
Width	116 meters

The fictional Intrepid-class starship USS Voyager is the primary setting of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. It is commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway. Voyager was designed by Star Trek: Voyager production designer Richard D. James and illustrator Rick Sternbach. Most of the ship's on-screen appearances result from computer-generated imagery, although Tony Meinenger built a model used in the series. The principal model of Voyager used for filming sold at Christie's auction in 2006 for USD $132,000.

Voyager was launched in 2371. The crew's first orders were to track down a Maquis ship in the Badlands. An alien force called the Caretaker transports both Voyager and the Maquis vessel across 70,000 light-years to the Delta Quadrant, damaging Voyager and killing several crewmembers (including first officer Lt. Cmdr. Cavit, the ship's chief medical officer and the rest of the medical staff, helm officer Stadi, and the chief engineer). To prevent a genocide of the Ocampans, Janeway orders the destruction of a device that could transport Voyager and the Maquis vessel home. Stranded, and with the Maquis ship also destroyed, both crews must integrate and work together for the anticipated 75-year journey home.

Starfleet Command eventually becomes aware of the ship's presence in the Delta Quadrant and is later able to establish regular communication. After a seven-year journey, the ship returns to the Alpha Quadrant via a Borg transwarp conduit with the aid of the time-traveling Admiral Kathryn Janeway (former Captain of Voyager) from an alternate future.