“Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown” Major Boost Adds Iconic Starship

(SeaPRwire) –   Unlike Star Trek: The Original Series — a sci-fi adventure show focused almost entirely on humanity’s voluntary push to explore the cosmos in the name of discovery and knowledge — Star Trek: Voyager was a notable departure: the Voyager’s mission wasn’t fully voluntary, nor was it a lighthearted exploratory journey through the universe. As the fourth live-action Star Trek series overall, following TOS, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine, Voyager reimagined the franchise’s formula by centering on a starship mysteriously transported light-years from Earth into the dangerous, uncharted Delta Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy.

While Voyager still held onto much of the idealism, humor, and wide-eyed speculative wonder of other Star Trek shows, its core premise leans into a more desperate, grittier tone—Captain Janeway and her crew’s quest to return home echoes a space-bound Robinson Crusoe story. Fortunately, the 2026 game Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown lets players experience the difficulty of the 70,000-light-year journey back to Earth firsthand, and a recent update has added a key tool to make life aboard the Voyager a bit easier.

Across the Unknown’s newly released 1.7 update introduced (alongside various quality-of-life improvements) the fan-favorite Delta Flyer, a vessel built by combining Starfleet and Borg technology. It first appeared in Voyager’s season 5 episode Extreme Risk, where Tom Paris, Seven of Nine, and other characters collaborated to create a shuttlecraft that could handle the Delta Quadrant’s volatile conditions better than traditional Starfleet ships. Designed to retrieve a satellite probe from a dense gas giant before the Malon could get to it, the Delta Flyer played a critical role in several missions until it was destroyed while approaching a Borg cube in season 6’s Unimatrix Zero.

Players can construct the Delta Flyer in the game’s shuttle bay, which unlocks an entirely new questline featuring Tom Paris. Building the shuttle also turns it into a combat ally—meaning it will automatically assist in battles (though currently, there’s no option to pilot it between sectors like you can the Voyager), and several existing quests now have new Delta Flyer-related branches.

Across the Unknown has put in meticulous effort to recreate the show while letting players captain the Voyager their way, and the Delta Flyer’s inclusion is just one of many tributes to the series. Even though Voyager was a bold departure from the franchise’s usual formula, games like AtU prove that the show’s unique quirks and original ideas are a big part of what made it so memorable from the start.

Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown is available now on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.