"Star Trek: Voyager" comes to an end
Will "Voyager" go home? Will the Maquis be tried as terrorists? Will B'Elanna Torres give birth?
After seven seasons, the fate of "Star Trek: Voyager" will be made known in a two-hour finale
Wednesday on UPN. "We are under strict orders not to divulge anything," intones Kate Mulgrew, aka
Capt. Janeway. "All I'll say is the finale has a real twist that will throw you."
Official "Star Trek" Web site startrek.com also is mum. "They don't even tell the cast which
is especially pathetic for me, considering I'm living with the executive producer [Brannon Braga],"
laughs Jeri Ryan, who plays half-woman, half-machine Seven of Nine.
Rick Berman, the show's creator, says that like its predecessors "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Voyager" has run its creative course.
Next season, Trekkers can forge a relationship with a whole new cast on a "Star Trek"
series that rumor says may be called "Enterprise" and set in the 22nd century.
Does the universe really need a fifth "Star Trek" series? Sure, says TV Guides Matt Roush. "TV without a first-run 'Trek' series is kind of hard to imagine."
-- By Susan Karlin, a Los Angeles-based writer, who once spoke about space law at a Star Trek convention.
