USS Voyager NCC-74656-A

The USS Voyager NCC-74656-A was an Intrepid-class Federation starship in service to the Federation Starfleet. She was the second Federation starship to bear the name Voyager.

Prologue
The Voyager crew constructed their own quantum slipstream drive using benamite crystals, overcoming some difficulties in their first attempt. Despite promising potential results, Tom Paris discovered a phase variance in the slipstream threshold, threatening to overload the drive's quantum matrix and destroy the ship. Harry Kim realized that the smaller size of a piloted shuttle leading Voyager could allow early phase variance detection of the complex, dynamic slipstream threshold for the larger ship. These advance data and corrections would help Voyager safely navigate the quantum slipstream. During the test flight, with Chakotay piloting the Delta Flyer, Kim sent wrong correction values to Voyager, causing the slipstream to unexpectedly collapse ten light years near the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager crashed on an class L planet in the Takara sector<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">, killing all hands, including Captain Kathryn Janeway – however, ahead of Voyager<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> in the stable Delta Flyer<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"> slipstream, Kim and Chakotay survived the disastrous test and returned to Earth<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">, filled with guilt.