The seven endings of Star Trek Voyager are a numbers game — here’s the map

If you care which of Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown’s seven endings you actually see, this isn’t a moral puzzle so much as resource management: keep the right crew, hoard specific Borg hardware, hit stat thresholds, and save at two critical moments. Screw up one prerequisite and entire ending branches vanish.

• Key takeaways: Ralik’s fate at Sector 11 and the Sector 12/Borg hub choice are the actual gating decisions.
• To unlock the five-alternative branch you must ally with Ralik and enter Sector 12 with either 100 Ex‑Borg crew + 35 Science Technology, or a flat 400 combat power.
• Canonical ending requires keeping a specific roster alive and saving a Vidiian medical device for later; merging Tuvok/Neelix (Tuvix) rules it out.
• Always make a manual save at the Sector 11 decision and again before Sector 12’s point of no return.

Why this matters – the endings are locked behind checks, not just choices

Most narrative games promise “meaningful choices.” Voyager’s late game actually delivers – but not in the way you’d expect. The game ties multiple endings to concrete prerequisites: a numeric crew count labeled “Ex‑Borg,” a Science Technology stat threshold, a separate combat-power threshold, and a handful of items (warp core, a Vidiian device, a Borg Vinculum/Vinclum). Those aren’t role‑playing outcomes; they’re gating checks. Miss them earlier and options evaporate.

The Ralik fork: the choice that unlocks five different finales

When you hit Sector 11 you decide Ralik’s fate. Make a manual save at that point – then choose carefully. If you ally with Ralik you open a cluster of five endings during the Sector 12 encounter with the Borg nebula and hub. But opening that cluster carries steep prerequisites: enter Sector 12 with either 100 Ex‑Borg crew and 35 Science Technology, or with 400 pure combat power. Those are not trivial mid‑run goals; they force you to plan builds and side missions from the early game.

The allied‑Ralik branch then splits by actions inside the Borg aperture: don’t destroy the hub and take it over (Home, Hub and Holdfast); destroy the hub after collecting the Borg Vinculum and refusing crew sacrifices (Welcome Home, Voyager); or attempt the destroy path but fail to save everyone and let the autopilot fly you into the aperture (The Calm Before the Storm). Small decision differences produce wildly different epilogues — but only if you met the gating numbers first.

Sacrificing Ralik and the “greater good” path

If you don’t save Ralik you can still destroy the hub — but that path requires staging a crew sacrifice and passing three late-game skill checks to defy Admiral Janeway. Fail the checks and the game forces a different outcome. Succeed and you destroy the hub but strand Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. It’s an explicitly mechanical payoff: the moral choice is real, but the outcome is still a stats-and-items puzzle.

Universal, conditional and the canonical ending

Two endings are effectively universal once you reach Sector 12’s point of no return: “Long Road Continues” (refuse to enter the nebula — adds 15 more years) and “Was It Worth It?” (enter the nebula and fight the Borg Queen but don’t destroy the hub). Two conditional endings require specific clean‑ship runs or inventory choices (the “Starfleet Way” demands you remove all Borg rooms before the final run).

The game’s canonical ending isn’t vague: it requires reaching Earth with a particular roster intact — Tom Paris, Chakotay, Tuvok, Harry Kim, B’Elanna Torres, The Doctor, Seven of Nine and Icheb — and completing any successful path while preserving those characters. Small missteps earlier (for example, using the Vidiian medical device on B’Elanna in Faces or merging Tuvok and Neelix into Tuvix) permanently lock you out of that route.

The thing the PR hoped you wouldn’t notice

It’s easy to sell this as “player choice matters,” but the tougher truth is those choices only matter if you met a checklist first. The game rewards meticulous save management, stat farming, and item hoarding. In practice that turns the emotional weight of late-game decisions into a mechanical gate: no warp core upgrade, no Vinculum, no canonical send-off.

What to watch next

• Developer patch notes — will Daedalic tweak thresholds or adjust required items based on player feedback? Changes would matter to runs already in progress.
• Steam guide updates and community spreadsheets — players will verify exact skill‑check values and share alternate routes; that’s where speedrunners will find shortcuts.
• Save‑file tools/mods — if the community produces tools to edit crew counts or restore used devices, those will change which endings remain gated by play rather than file manipulation.
• Sales and player churn (TechRaptor reports 100k copies in four days) — expect a flood of late‑game questions in forums; developer response speed will set the tone for balancing complaints.

TL;DR

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown ties most of its seven endings to concrete stat and item checks centered on the Sector 11 decision about Ralik and the Sector 12 Borg hub. Save before both decision points, hoard the Vidiian device and the Borg Vinculum, hit either 100 Ex‑Borg + 35 Science Technology or 400 combat power for the allied branch, and keep the canonical roster alive if you want the “true” ending. If you didn’t plan for that, the game will still give you endings — just not the ones you were hoping for.