To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager is an upcoming production from David Zappone's 455 Films [1] and Le Big Boss Productions (Canada) [2] set to examine what made Star Trek: Voyager special twenty-five years after the series premiere, through new interviews with the cast and crew. The documentary conception came about because of the success of Zappone's prior Star Trek: Deep Space Nine documentary, What We Left Behind. [3]
The working title had previously been A Long Way Home: The Star Trek Voyager Documentary. [4] By March 2021, the film was being reported as yet untitled. [5]
On 19 July 2024, it was reported that the now titled documentary was nearing completion, and that its Paramount Theater premiere was expected to take place in early November that year. [6]
Fundraising campaign[]
Production launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign on 1 March 2021, raising more than $450,000 in the first twenty-four hours. [7] By 15 March 2021, the campaign had become the most successful Indiegogo documentary campaign ever, reaching more than US$740,000. On March 28, the campaign funding reached and exceeded the one million dollars mark, [8] The Indiegogo concluded three days later, on 31 March 2021, having collected US$1,260,245 from 11,728 backers, almost double the US$630,000 raised by What We Left Behind, and broke the record as the all-time most successful documentary crowdfunding (a title previously held by Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa (Save the Vault, Tell the Story), at US$1,126,036.) [9] [10]
Features made possible by having reached various fundraising goals include additional 3D graphics and animations, filming a November 2021 cast reunion in London, expanding the film from 60 to 90+ minutes, composition of an original score for the film, and licensing the original title music from Jerry Goldsmith. [11]