PRESS RELEASE

In 2374 Starfleet announced to shocked crowds that it had made contact with the U.S.S. Voyager. A ship that was long assumed destroyed. All official efforts to establish the reason for its destruction had been drawn to a close 13 months earlier.

The contact was made through a communications network that to this day, is of unknown origin. The Alpha Quadrant followed Starfleet's efforts to compose and send a message back to Voyager through the network with baited breath. Shortly after the message was sent, the network unfortunately collapsed. The cause of the collapse was unknown, but we do know that the failure originated at the far end of the network and wasn’t caused directly by Starfleet’s message.

Since then, Starfleet has been researching theories, and developing new technologies. In the hope of reestablishing contact with the brave souls onboard Voyager.

One of these projects, developed in conjunction with the Vulcan Science Directorate, was the Mutara Interdimensional Deep Space Array System (MIDAS). Leading Starfleets is subspace communications researcher Commander Peter J. Harkins, head of Project Pathfinder. Who has been overseeing deployment and testing of the array in recent months.

A member of his team, Lieutenant Reginald Endicot Barclay III devised a method of using the array to create a short lived micro wormhole. With approval from Starfleet Command, Lieutenant Barclay tested his theories using the experimental array.

The experiment was a success and Starfleet can confirm that live contact was made with Voyager.

Starfleet can also confirm that the ship has made significant progress on its journey home since contact was last established.

As this was a real time subspace link between Earth and Voyager, both sides were able to use the short window to submit vast quantities of data. Starfleet is now in possession of Voyager’s complete ship’s logs, crew reports and navigation records.

We will be releasing further information about their journey and discoveries in the Delta Quadrant in due course.

Project Pathfinder has also been working on the development of what is being referred to as ‘Hyper-subspace’ technology. It is the hope of Commander Harkins and his team that in the near future, friends and family of those onboard the U.S.S. Voyager will be able to look forward to more regular communication with their loved ones.

Known associates of the Voyager crew will be informed of further developments in hyper subspace research in due course.