Late Season 1/Early Season 2 Best Watching Order

[Odo]

I'm rewatching Voyager - I was wondering as to the watching order, since some episodes for season one were placed in the beginning of season 2. I'm guessing while it's preferable to watch the show in production order, but that it doesn't make that big of a difference - any thoughts?

(Also, is that the only time during the show's run that there was a difference b/w production and airing order?)

 

[Oddish]

Voyager was so reset button heavy, it scarcely matters.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

If you stick strictly to production order you'll eventually end up watching Sacred Ground, False Profits and Flashback between Basics, Part I and Basics, Part II. Up to that point you'll get the benefit of the stardates being in the right order but it doesn't have much effect on the stories. Unless there's something obvious I'm forgetting.

Edit: oh right, production order will put the S2 Tom Paris arc out of order slightly.

 

[somebuddyX]

The correct answer of course is the CIC VHS order.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/VOY_Season_1_UK_VHS
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/VOY_Season_2_UK_VHS

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Hey that's the order I watched it in first time around! I still love those VHS covers.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Forgive me for being dense, but what's wrong with broadcast order? Genuine question.

 

[Odo]

Forgive me for being dense, but what's wrong with broadcast order? Genuine question.

They aired some episodes out of order, carrying a few episodes form the end of season one and placing them randomly throughout the beginning of season 2. It sounds like the only thing this may have affected was the 'Tom Paris is a traitor' storyline from season 2.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

They aired some episodes out of order, carrying a few episodes form the end of season one and placing them randomly throughout the beginning of season 2. It sounds like the only thing this may have affected was the 'Tom Paris is a traitor' storyline from season 2.

Appreciated!

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I feel like I might have phrased my post badly and confused things, so I'll try to make more sense.

some episodes for season one were placed in the beginning of season 2. I'm guessing while it's preferable to watch the show in production order, but that it doesn't make that big of a difference

I don't think it really matters much, it just means you're doomed to watch Twisted earlier and the season 2 opener is now the season 1 finale, but if anyone's curious those episodes are:

2x03 - Projections (Prod #117)
2x04 - Elogium (118)
2x06 - Twisted (119)
2x01 - The 37's (120)

Also, is that the only time during the show's run that there was a difference b/w production and airing order?

There are slight differences in later seasons as well, but it seems like watching the episodes in the order they aired in will keep the continuity intact. For example, these four season 3 episodes were filmed during season 2:

3x07 - Sacred Ground (143)
3x05 - False Profits (144)
3x02 - Flashback (145)
3x01 - Basics, Part II (146)

 

[Seven of Five]

It's a little hit and miss, but in the UK we had The 37s air as the first season finale like it was originally intended.

Janeway asked the crew if anyone wanted to stay behind on the planet with humans, but no one took her up on her offer.
Thematically, it worked well, especially after Caretaker and Janeway made the decision to strand the crew in the first place. .

No of the other out-of-place episodes had much effect on the story.

 

[Oddish]

Just be ready to face-palm when you get to "Non Sequitur".

HARRY: "Oh, wow. I'm back on Earth. I'm living in an upscale apartment with a gorgeous fiancee. I've got a barista who knows just how I like my coffee. I'm working for the SCE, and I'm on track to get my hollow pip eight months out of the Academy. No more taking cold showers on a tin can stranded 70,000 light years from the nearest Vulcan mocha, with a captain who's inexplicably determined to ruin my career by keeping me at ensign for seven years..."

"... I think I'll spend the whole frickin' episode trying to get back!"

 

[Summer Solstice]

They aired some episodes out of order, carrying a few episodes form the end of season one and placing them randomly throughout the beginning of season 2. It sounds like the only thing this may have affected was the 'Tom Paris is a traitor' storyline from season 2.

If you enjoy spotting continuity errors, go for the order that they aired them in. There are a few little things.

 

[Farscape One]

The season 1 holdovers into season 2 are easy to spot... they use the same font for the credits.

The season 2 holdovers are harder to spot, because they use stardates as if it was a season 3 episode. (Except for "BASICS, PART II", but it was the last one produced for season 2.) But in the end credits, season 1 and 2 episodes had Berman, Piller, and Taylor listed as Executive Producers. In season 3, Piller was taken out and put in the beginning as a Creative Consultant. That's how you can identify them.

Berman and the rest likely saw that UPN was going to do the same thing again, which is why the stardates of those reflect a season 3. Frankly, UPN screwed all of us out of getting 4 more episodes for season 3... VOYAGER should have ended up with the same amount of episodes as DS9.

But, and this is my personal opinion, given how the quality of season 3 was radically hit or miss... mostly in the middle of the season... I suppose we should be glad we didn't get those 4 episodes.

 

[DigificWriter]

Thread bump.

This is how I personally think Voyager should've been aired, and is how I'm currently rewatching the series:

Season 1 (20 episodes

1. Caretaker, Part 1
   
   
2. Caretaker, Part 2
   
   
3. Parallax
   
   
4. Time and Again
   
   
5. Phage
   
   
6. The Cloud
   
   
7. Eye of the Needle
   
   
8. Ex Post Facto
   
   
9. Emanations
   
   
10. Prime Factors
    
    
11. State of Flux
    
    
12. Heroes and Demons
    
    
13. Cathexis
    
    
14. Faces
    
    
15. Jetrel
    
    
16. Learning Curve
    
    
17. Projections
    
    
18. Elogium
    
    
19. Twisted
    
    
20. The 37s

Season 2 (22 episodes)

1. Initiations
   
   
2. Non Sequitur
   
   
3. Partuition
   
   
4. Persistence of Vision
   
   
5. Tattoo
   
   
6. Cold Fire
   
   
7. Maneuvers
   
   
8. Resistance
   
   
9. Prototype
   
   
10. Death Wish
    
    
11. Alliances
    
    
12. Threshold
    
    
13. Meld
    
    
14. Dreadnought
    
    
15. Lifesigns
    
    
16. Investigations
    
    
17. Deadlock
    
    
18. Innocence
    
    
19. The Thaw
    
    
20. Tuvix
    
    
21. Resolutions
    
    
22. Basics, Part 1

Season 3 (26 episodes)

1. Basics, Part 2
   
   
2. Sacred Ground
   
   
3. False Profits
   
   
4. Flashback
   
   
5. The Chute
   
   
6. Remember
   
   
7. The Swarm
   
   
8. Future's End, Part 1
   
   
9. Future's End, Part 2
   
   
10. Warlord
    
    
11. The Q and the Grey
    
    
12. Macrocosm
    
    
13. Fair Trade
    
    
14. Alter Ego
    
    
15. Blood Fever
    
    
16. Coda
    
    
17. Unity
    
    
18. Rise
    
    
19. Darkling
    
    
20. Favorite Son
    
    
21. Before and After
    
    
22. Real Life
    
    
23. Distant Origin
    
    
24. Displaced
    
    
25. Worst Case Scenario
    
    
26. Scorpion, Part 1

Season 4 (26 episodes)

1. Scorpion, Part 2
   
   
2. The Gift
   
   
3. Nemesis
   
   
4. Day of Honor
   
   
5. Revulsion
   
   
6. The Raven
   
   
7. Scientific Method
   
   
8. Year of Hell, Part 1
   
   
9. Year of Hell, Part 2
   
   
10. Random Thoughts
    
    
11. Concerning Flight
    
    
12. Mortal Coil
    
    
13. Waking Moments
    
    
14. Message in a Bottle
    
    
15. Hunters
    
    
16. Prey
    
    
17. Retrospect
    
    
18. The Killing Game, Part 1
    
    
19. The Killing Game, Part 2
    
    
20. Vis a Vis
    
    
21. The Omega Directive
    
    
22. Unforgettable
    
    
23. Living Witness
    
    
24. Demon
    
    
25. One
    
    
26. Hope and Fear

Season 5 (26 episodes)

1. Night
   
   
2. Drone
   
   
3. Extreme Risk
   
   
4. In the Flesh
   
   
5. Once Upon a Time
   
   
6. Nothing Human
   
   
7. Timeless
   
   
8. Thirty Days
   
   
9. Infinite Regress
   
   
10. Counterpoint
    
    
11. Gravity
    
    
12. Latent Image
    
    
13. Bride of Chaotica!
    
    
14. The Flight
    
    
15. Bliss
    
    
16. The Disease
    
    
17. Course: Oblivion
    
    
18. Dark Frontier, Part 1
    
    
19. Dark Frontier, Part 2
    
    
20. Think Tank
    
    
21. Juggernaut
    
    
22. Someone to Watch Over Me
    
    
23. 11:59
    
    
24. Relativity
    
    
25. Warhead
    
    
26. Equinox, Part 1

Season 6 (26 episodes)

1. Equinox, Part 2
   
   
2. Survival Instinct
   
   
3. Barge of the Dead
   
   
4. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
   
   
5. Dragon's Teeth
   
   
6. Alice
   
   
7. Riddles
   
   
8. One Small Step
   
   
9. The Voyager Conspiracy
   
   
10. Pathfinder
    
    
11. Fair Haven
    
    
12. Tsunkatse
    
    
13. Blink of an Eye
    
    
14. Virtuoso
    
    
15. Collective
    
    
16. Memorial
    
    
17. Spirit Folk
    
    
18. Ashes to Ashes
    
    
19. Child's Play
    
    
20. Good Shepherd
    
    
21. Fury
    
    
22. Live Fast and Prosper
    
    
23. Life Line
    
    
24. Muse
    
    
25. The Haunting of Deck Twelve
    
    
26. Unimatrix Zero, Part 1

Season 7 (26 episodes)

1. Unimatrix Zero, Part 2
   
   
2. Drive
   
   
3. Critical Care
   
   
4. Repression
   
   
5. Imperfection
   
   
6. Inside Man
   
   
7. Body and Soul
   
   
8. Nightingale
   
   
9. Flesh and Blood, Part 1
   
   
10. Flesh and Blood. Part 2
    
    
11. Shattered
    
    
12. Lineage
    
    
13. Repentance
    
    
14. Prophecy
    
    
15. The Void
    
    
16. Workforce, Part 1
    
    
17. Workforce, Part 2
    
    
18. Human Error
    
    
19. Q2
    
    
20. Author, Author
    
    
21. Friendship One
    
    
22. Natural Law
    
    
23. Homestead
    
    
24. Renaissance Man
    
    
25. Endgame, Part 1
    
    
26. Endgame, Part 2

 

[Lynx]

Thread bump

This is how I personally think Voyager should've been aired, and is how I'm currently rewatching the series:

Season 1 (20 episodes

1. Caretaker, Part 1
   
   
2. Caretaker, Part 2
   
   
3. Parallax
   
   
4. Time and Again
   
   
5. Phage
   
   
6. The Cloud
   
   
7. Eye of the Needle
   
   
8. Ex Post Facto
   
   
9. Emanations
   
   
10. Prime Factors
    
    
11. State of Flux
    
    
12. Heroes and Demons
    
    
13. Cathexis
    
    
14. Faces
    
    
15. Jetrel
    
    
16. Learning Curve
    
    
17. Projections
    
    
18. Elogium
    
    
19. Twisted
    
    
20. The 37s

Season 2 (22 episodes)

1. Initiations
   
   
2. Non Sequitur
   
   
3. Partuition
   
   
4. Persistence of Vision
   
   
5. Tattoo
   
   
6. Cold Fire
   
   
7. Maneuvers
   
   
8. Resistance
   
   
9. Prototype
   
   
10. Death Wish
    
    
11. Alliances
    
    
12. Threshold
    
    
13. Meld
    
    
14. Dreadnought
    
    
15. Lifesigns
    
    
16. Investigations
    
    
17. Deadlock
    
    
18. Innocence
    
    
19. The Thaw
    
    
20. Tuvix
    
    
21. Resolutions
    
    
22. Basics, Part 1

Season 3 (26 episodes)

1. Basics, Part 2
   
   
2. Sacred Ground
   
   
3. False Profits
   
   
4. Flashback
   
   
5. The Chute
   
   
6. Remember
   
   
7. The Swarm
   
   
8. Future's End, Part 1
   
   
9. Future's End, Part 2
   
   
10. Warlord
    
    
11. The Q and the Grey
    
    
12. Macrocosm
    
    
13. Fair Trade
    
    
14. Alter Ego
    
    
15. Blood Fever
    
    
16. Coda
    
    
17. Unity
    
    
18. Rise
    
    
19. Darkling
    
    
20. Favorite Son
    
    
21. Before and After
    
    
22. Real Life
    
    
23. Distant Origin
    
    
24. Displaced
    
    
25. Worst Case Scenario
    
    
26. Scorpion, Part 1

Season 4 (26 episodes)

1. Scorpion, Part 2
   
   
2. The Gift
   
   
3. Nemesis
   
   
4. Day of Honor
   
   
5. Revulsion
   
   
6. The Raven
   
   
7. Scientific Method
   
   
8. Year of Hell, Part 1
   
   
9. Year of Hell, Part 2
   
   
10. Random Thoughts
    
    
11. Concerning Flight
    
    
12. Mortal Coil
    
    
13. Waking Moments
    
    
14. Message in a Bottle
    
    
15. Hunters
    
    
16. Prey
    
    
17. Retrospect
    
    
18. The Killing Game, Part 1
    
    
19. The Killing Game, Part 2
    
    
20. Vis a Vis
    
    
21. The Omega Directive
    
    
22. Unforgettable
    
    
23. Living Witness
    
    
24. Demon
    
    
25. One
    
    
26. Hope and Fear

Season 5 (26 episodes)

1. Night
   
   
2. Drone
   
   
3. Extreme Risk
   
   
4. In the Flesh
   
   
5. Once Upon a Time
   
   
6. Nothing Human
   
   
7. Timeless
   
   
8. Thirty Days
   
   
9. Infinite Regress
   
   
10. Counterpoint
    
    
11. Gravity
    
    
12. Latent Image
    
    
13. Bride of Chaotica!
    
    
14. The Flight
    
    
15. Bliss
    
    
16. The Disease
    
    
17. Course: Oblivion
    
    
18. Dark Frontier, Part 1
    
    
19. Dark Frontier, Part 2
    
    
20. Think Tank
    
    
21. Juggernaut
    
    
22. Someone to Watch Over Me
    
    
23. 11:59
    
    
24. Relativity
    
    
25. Warhead
    
    
26. Equinox, Part 1

Season 6 (26 episodes)

1. Equinox, Part 2
   
   
2. Survival Instinct
   
   
3. Barge of the Dead
   
   
4. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
   
   
5. Dragon's Teeth
   
   
6. Alice
   
   
7. Riddles
   
   
8. One Small Step
   
   
9. The Voyager Conspiracy
   
   
10. Pathfinder
    
    
11. Fair Haven
    
    
12. Tsunkatse
    
    
13. Blink of an Eye
    
    
14. Virtuoso
    
    
15. Collective
    
    
16. Memorial
    
    
17. Spirit Folk
    
    
18. Ashes to Ashes
    
    
19. Child's Play
    
    
20. Good Shepherd
    
    
21. Fury
    
    
22. Live Fast and Prosper
    
    
23. Life Line
    
    
24. Muse
    
    
25. The Haunting of Deck Twelve
    
    
26. Unimatrix Zero, Part 1

Season 7 (26 episodes)

1. Unimatrix Zero, Part 2
   
   
2. Drive
   
   
3. Critical Care
   
   
4. Repression
   
   
5. Imperfection
   
   
6. Inside Man
   
   
7. Body and Soul
   
   
8. Nightingale
   
   
9. Flesh and Blood, Part 1
   
   
10. Flesh and Blood. Part 2
    
    
11. Shattered
    
    
12. Lineage
    
    
13. Repentance
    
    
14. Prophecy
    
    
15. The Void
    
    
16. Workforce, Part 1
    
    
17. Workforce, Part 2
    
    
18. Human Error
    
    
19. Q2
    
    
20. Author, Author
    
    
21. Friendship One
    
    
22. Natural Law
    
    
23. Homestead
    
    
24. Renaissance Man
    
    
25. Endgame, Part 1
    
    
26. Endgame, Part 2

I have to slightly disagree with your watching order for the season 1 episodes which were postponed for season 2

Four episodes were meant to be season 1 episodes but they were postponed for season 2. Those episodes are: Projections, Elogium, Twisted and The 37's. Their stardates indicate that they are season 1 episodes meant to take place ins 2371.

In Europe, those episodes were aired as season 1 episodes.

The best watching order of the season 1 and season 2 episodes are:

Season 1

Caretaker

Parallax

Time And Again

Phage

The Cloud

Eye Of The Needle

Ex Post Facto

Emanations

Prime Factors

State Of Flux

Heroes And Demons

Cathexis

Faces

Jetrel

Learning Curve

Projections

Elogium

Twisted

The 37’s

Season 2

Initiations

Non Sequitur

Parturition

Persistence Of Vision

Tattoo

Cold Fire

Maneuvers

Resistance

Prototype

Death Wish

Alliances

Threshold

Meld

Dreadnought

Lifesigns

Investigations

Deadlock

Innocence

The Thaw

Tuvix

Resolutions

Basics #1

A more detailed list with Stardates, Earth Time dates and also the Voyager books published during seasons 1 and 2 is to be found on The Kes Website under the link Voyager Timeline

 

[DigificWriter]

I have to slightly disagree with your watching order for the season 1 episodes which were postponed for season 2

Four episodes were meant to be season 1 episodes but they were postponed for season 2. Those episodes are: Projections, Elogium, Twisted and The 37's. Their stardates indicate that they are season 1 episodes meant to take place ins 2371.

In Europe, those episodes were aired as season 1 episodes.

The best watching order of the season 1 and season 2 episodes are:

Season 1

Caretaker

Parallax

Time And Again

Phage

The Cloud

Eye Of The Needle

Ex Post Facto

Emanations

Prime Factors

State Of Flux

Heroes And Demons

Cathexis

Faces

Jetrel

Learning Curve

Projections

Elogium

Twisted

The 37’s

Season 2

Initiations

Non Sequitur

Parturition

Persistence Of Vision

Tattoo

Cold Fire

Maneuvers

Resistance

Prototype

Death Wish

Alliances

Threshold

Meld

Dreadnought

Lifesigns

Investigations

Deadlock

Innocence

The Thaw

Tuvix

Resolutions

Basics #1

A more detailed list with Stardates, Earth Time dates and also the Voyager books published during seasons 1 and 2 is to be found on The Kes Website under the link Voyager Timeline

There's no difference between your order and mine.

Season 1 ends with The 37s in my order, and everything else from Season 2 goes in either broadcast or production order.

 

[Lynx]

There's no difference between your order and mine.

Season 1 ends with The 37s in my order, and everything else from Season 2 goes in either broadcast or production order.

My sincere apologies.
I must have mis-read your post the first time, messing up Initiations with Projections or whatever I did.
I wasn't focused, due to activities around me.
Your order of episodes is correct.