USS VOYAGER LANDS
OR SETS DOWN ON A PLANET

Paris: "Captain, I think I should tell you, I've never actually landed a starship before." Janeway: "That's alright, Lieutenant. Neither have I." [#20 The 37's]

year	episode number and name	synopsis with special reference to Voyager landing/having landed/taking off	screenshot More and larger screenshots are at SHIP USS VOYAGER: Exterior Still Screenshots
2371	[#20 The 37's]	The Voyager crew finds an ancient Earth pick-up truck floating in space and follows an SOS signal to a planet. Trinimbic interference in the atmosphere blocks sensor readings and transporter signal. Since a shuttlecraft cannot navigate the currents in the atmosphere safely, Janeway gives the order to land the ship. The Voyager crew discover kidnapped humans in stasis from 1937 and waking them and meet representatives of the indigenous population. Watched by Janeway's childhood heroine, the famous navigatrix Amelia Earhart, USS Voyager takes off from the planet and leaves. This is the first time that USS Voyager is seen landing on a planet, and taking off again. It is also the first time that a Federation starship has been seen in Star Trek landing on a planet and taking off again. The landing sequence (illustrated and with soundfiles) and lift-off sequence are described in SHIP USS VOYAGER: Ship's Tours: Exterior: Detailed (a.k.a. Specifications): Page 4: Landing The Ship & Taking Off Again.
2372-73	[#42 and #43 Basics]	The Kazon-Nistrim under Maje Culluh, who is advised by Seska, capture USS Voyager. They land it on a planet in the Hanon star system, maroon the crew and then take off again. Later, aided by the Doctor and Lon Suder who are still aboard, Paris and a group of Talaxians under Paxim, retake the ship. The crewmembers are retrieved. (VC states that they "presumably land it to receive the crew (although the actual landing goes unseen)" but I believe they could have been beamed aboard. Even if the crew were not retrieved in groups, a large number of personnel can be beamed aboard in one go if necessary - in [#160 Prophecy] 204 Klingons are beamed to the shuttle bay.)
2374	[#92 Demon]	With USS Voyager low on power, Paris and Kim take a shuttlecraft to a Demon-class planet with a toxic atmosphere. When the ship loses communication contact with them, rather than risk another shuttlecraft in the rescue, Janeway lands the ship. They find that an indigenous mimetic compound has developed to sentience by taking on the forms of Kim and Paris. A large pool of the metallic compound forms under the ship and it begins to sink into it. Janeway recalls the away team so the ship can make an emergency ascent. The duplicate Kim refuses to leave the surface, saying that he feels a connection to the planet. With the team aboard, Voyager attempts to get out of the compound, damaging it in the process. Janeway grants its request to take on the forms of the ship and the rest of the crew. As the duplicates look on, the real USS Voyager (with the real crew on board) take off from the planet.
2376	[#127 Dragon's Teeth]	The Turei refuse USS Voyager permission to continue to travel through what the Turei claim is their network of underspace corridors. When the Turei fire on Voyager, Janeway is forced to land the ship on a planet with radiogenic particles in the atmosphere. The Voyager crew discover the remains of a civilisation destroyed by war long ago (nearly 900 years before in fact). Seven, without orders, revives a native alien called Gedrin from his stasis pod, and he persuades Janeway to revive the rest of the last battalion of the Vaadwaur so that they can rebuild their civilisation. The Voyager crew and the Vaadwaur formulate a plan to drive off the Turei and head for the subspace corridors. But Neelix discovers that the Vaadwaur were in reality a race of aggressors intent on territorial dominance. Meanwhile the Vaadwaur leader, Gaul, decides his soldiers should seize Voyager as it far supersedes their outdated technology, to recapture lost territory. Aided by Gedrin, USS Voyager lifts off from the planet as Vaadwaur fighter ships launch an attack. Voyager runs the gauntlet of attack as it heads for deep space again and, in a tactical move, informs the Turei about their ancient enemies, the Vaadwaur. The Turei attack the Vaadwaur ships and Voyager escapes.
2377	[#154 Nightingale]	As the episode opens, USS Voyager has landed on a planet to conduct much-needed maintenance. Meanwhile Kim, as captain of the Delta Flyer, decides to come to the aid of a Kraylor vessel under fire from an Annari warship. Not only that, but he and his crew, are persuaded by one of the passengers, who is named Loken, that the Kraylor ship is on a humanitarian mission to take urgent medical aid to the Kraylor homeworld. Accordingly they accede to the request to repair the Kraylor ship, and Kim captains it to Voyager where Kim persuades Janeway to let him command the Kraylor ship back to the Kraylor homeworld. Janeway's would-be friendly trade agreement with the Annari is broken off by the Annari when they discover that Voyager crewmembers, namely the Delta Flyer crew, had aided their enemy the Kraylor. Geral of the Annari: "If you don't leave immediately, we'll be forced to fire on you." Janeway: "Our warp drive is still being repaired." Geral: "Then we'll escort you at impulse. You have five minutes to lift off." Accordingly Voyager is forced to end all maintenance work prematurely which means bringing back inside the ship all the crew and equipment that had been outside, and Voyager takes off from the planet in a hurry.	Voyager, landed on the planet, with maintenance equipment visible Voyager's bridge with planetary landscape in the background