Star Trek: Voyager: Season 3
As Capt. Janeway and her crew continue their journey home, they face many obstacles, including a time rip that sends them back to 20th-century Earth.
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Star Trek: Voyager Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Season overview
As Capt. Janeway and her crew continue their journey home, they face many obstacles, including a time rip that sends them back to 20th-century Earth.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Basics (2)
Sep 4, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50023.4. Voyager is captured by the Kazon and the crew are dumped on a planet in its early stages of evolution. As only Tom Paris and Lon Suder have evaded capture, it's
Flashback
Sep 11, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50126.4. After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to w
The Chute
Sep 18, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50156.2. Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing.
The Swarm
Sep 25, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50252.3. Voyager must cross through the territory of a mysterious and fiercely isolationist species. Meanwhile, B’Ellana tries to help the Doctor when he begins losing h
False Profits
Oct 2, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50074.3. The crew encounter a Bronze Age culture ruled by two “Sages” – a pair of Ferengi who arrived through a wormhole from the Alpha Quadrant.
Remember
Oct 9, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50203.1. After Voyager encounter a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political a
Sacred Ground
Oct 30, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50063.2. Captain Janeway has to undergo a rigorous ritual in order to save Kes' life when she is knocked unconscious.
Future's End (1)
Nov 6, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager is attacked by a Timeship from 500 years in the future, but the two ships are hurled into the past and Voyager is stranded in the year 1996.
Future's End (2)
Nov 13, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50312.5. While trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a gang of weapons smugglers who believe that they are from the government.
Warlord
Nov 20, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50348.1. A dying warlord transfers his consciousness to Kes’s body and uses her to stage a bloody coup on his home world.
The Q and the Grey
Nov 27, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: 50384.2. Q begins courting Captain Janeway, claiming that her having his child is the only way to end a civil war wracking the Q Continuum.
Macrocosm
Dec 11, 1996 · 46 min
Stardate: Unknown. After returning from a first contact mission, Janeway, Neelix and the Doctor must retake Voyager from an infestation of microorganisms that grow to an alarming s
Fair Trade
Jan 8, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager arrives at the dangerous and uncharted Nekrit Expanse. Neelix, feeling useless now that he can’t guide them, reaches out to a shady contact to find the c
Alter Ego
Jan 15, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50460.3. Ensign Kim asks for Tuvok’s help controlling his emotions when he finds himself desperately in love with a holodeck character.
Coda
Jan 29, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50518.6. Captain Janeway and Chakotay are trapped in a time loop, reliving the same disastrous shuttle crash.
Blood Fever
Feb 5, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50537.2. Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Fa
Unity
Feb 12, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50614.2. During an away mission, Chakotay discovers a Federation hailing signature coming from an alien planet. After landing, he learns that all is not peaceful, and tho
Darkling
Feb 19, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50693.2. When the doctor tries to improve his personality by incorporating the psychological profiles of famous and historical people, he is overwhelmed by their dark sid
Rise
Feb 26, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: Unknown. Neelix is pushed to the limits when Tuvok's attitude becomes too much to bear while the pair is on an away mission to help evacuate a Nezu planet, which is being
Favorite Son
Mar 19, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50732.4. Harry Kim experiences strong senses of deja vu in an unknown region of space. He soon learns that he is native to this region and that he is T'Karian, not human.
Before and After
Apr 9, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50973. Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years young
Real Life
Apr 23, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50863.2. The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the
Distant Origin
Apr 30, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: Unknown. An alien palaeontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people (the Voth) evolved on Eart
Displaced
May 7, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50912.4. Crew members are replaced one-by-one with aliens from an unknown race.
Worst Case Scenario
May 14, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50953.4. B'Elanna Torres discovers a holodeck program where Chakotay and the Maquis rebel against Janeway.
Scorpion (1)
May 21, 1997 · 46 min
Stardate: 50984.3. Voyager finally enters Borg space, only to discover a threat more powerful than the Borg themselves.