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The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Voyager Season 3

Every episode of Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Voyager Season 3!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 26 - Scorpion (1)
    8.9/10(3061 votes)

    S3:E26

    Stardate: 50984.3. Voyager finally enters Borg space, only to discover a threat more powerful than the Borg themselves.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  2. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 23 - Distant Origin
    8.5/10(2993 votes)

    S3:E23

    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 Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  3. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 8 - Future's End (1)
    8.2/10(2856 votes)

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  4. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 9 - Future's End (2)
    8.1/10(2700 votes)

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  5. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 25 - Worst Case Scenario
    8.0/10(2417 votes)

    S3:E25

    Stardate: 50953.4. B'Elanna Torres discovers a holodeck program where Chakotay and the Maquis rebel against Janeway.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Kenneth Biller

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  6. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 1 - Basics (2)
    7.8/10(2403 votes)

    S3:E1

    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 up to them and the EMH to come up with a plan to retake the ship.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Michael Piller

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  7. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 17 - Unity
    7.8/10(2386 votes)

    S3:E17

    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 those helping him have not been entirely honest about their true origins.

    Director:Robert Duncan McNeill
    Writer:Kenneth Biller

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  8. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 2 - Flashback
    7.7/10(2669 votes)

    S3:E2

    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 when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Brannon Braga

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  9. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 21 - Before and After
    7.6/10(2427 votes)

    S3:E21

    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 younger at a time.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Kenneth Biller

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  10. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 24 - Displaced
    7.4/10(2220 votes)

    S3:E24

    Stardate: 50912.4. Crew members are replaced one-by-one with aliens from an unknown race.

    Director:Allan Kroeker
    Writer:Lisa Klink

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  11. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 22 - Real Life
    7.3/10(2403 votes)

    S3:E22

    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 program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.

    Director:Anson Williams
    Writer:Jeri Taylor

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  12. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 12 - Macrocosm
    7.2/10(2351 votes)

    S3:E12

    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 size.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Brannon Braga

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  13. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 4 - The Swarm
    7.1/10(2239 votes)

    S3:E4

    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 his memory.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Michael Sussman

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  14. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 11 - The Q and the Grey
    7.1/10(2421 votes)

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Kenneth Biller, Shawn Piller

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  15. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 16 - Blood Fever
    7.1/10(2290 votes)

    S3:E16

    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-Farr herself.

    Director:Andrew Robinson
    Writer:Lisa Klink

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  16. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 15 - Coda
    7.0/10(2295 votes)

    S3:E15

    Stardate: 50518.6. Captain Janeway and Chakotay are trapped in a time loop, reliving the same disastrous shuttle crash.

    Director:Nancy Malone
    Writer:Jeri Taylor

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  17. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 6 - Remember
    6.9/10(2271 votes)

    S3:E6

    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 and social upheaval.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  18. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 13 - Fair Trade
    6.7/10(2115 votes)

    S3:E13

    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 crew a map.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writers:Ron Wilkerson, André Bormanis

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  19. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 14 - Alter Ego
    6.7/10(2205 votes)

    S3:E14

    Stardate: 50460.3. Ensign Kim asks for Tuvok’s help controlling his emotions when he finds himself desperately in love with a holodeck character.

    Director:Robert Picardo
    Writer:Joe Menosky

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  20. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 19 - Rise
    6.7/10(2141 votes)

    S3:E19

    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 bombarded with asteroids.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:Brannon Braga

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  21. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 3 - The Chute
    6.6/10(2258 votes)

    S3:E3

    Stardate: 50156.2. Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing.

    Director:Les Landau
    Writer:Kenneth Biller

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  22. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 10 - Warlord
    6.6/10(2291 votes)

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 5 - False Profits
    6.5/10(2406 votes)

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Joe Menosky

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  24. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 18 - Darkling
    6.2/10(2114 votes)

    S3:E18

    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 sides and begins exhibiting signs of a split personality, one the regular doctor, and the other dark and evil. Kes asks to leave Voyager when they encounter a race with vast knowledge of the region of space they are currently exploring.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writers:Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga

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  25. Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episode 20 - Favorite Son
    6.0/10(2207 votes)

    S3:E20

    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.

    Director:Marvin V. Rush
    Writer:Lisa Klink

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Scorpion (1)" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" season 3. It scored 8.9/10 based on 3061 votes. Directed by David Livingston and written by Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, it aired on 5/21/1997. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Distant Origin".