Star Trek: Voyager improved on the storyline from one of Star Trek: The Original Series's worst episodes. Voyager had to carve itself a unique place in the Star Trek franchise when it first began airing in 1995, and one of the ways it did this was by having the show be set in the Delta Quadrant, an uncharted portion of the galaxy that no other series had ever explored. This meant that the crew of the USS Voyager encountered strange new alien species in virtually every episode, and one of the strangest species early on in season 1 was the Vidiians.
