100 Fun Facts About Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager was the first series to air on which new network in January 1995?

UPN, the United Paramount Network, launched on 16 January 1995 with the Voyager pilot as its first broadcast; Paramount commissioned the show partly to anchor the new network.

Voyager is stranded in which quadrant of the galaxy?

The Delta Quadrant, on the far side of the Milky Way from Federation space, is where the Caretaker's array drags the ship; getting home to the Alpha Quadrant drives all seven seasons.

Roughly how far from Earth is Voyager when the Caretaker's wave strands it?

70,000 light-years is how far the Caretaker's wave throws the ship from home; a stolen Borg transwarp coil and an experimental slipstream drive each later cut years off the trip.

How long is Voyager's trip home projected to take when the ship sets off?

75 years is Janeway's estimate at maximum warp; she strands the crew deliberately, destroying the Caretaker's array so the Kazon cannot use it against the Ocampa.

Which actress plays Captain Kathryn Janeway?

Kate Mulgrew took the role in 1994 after the original choice quit days into shooting the pilot, and she went on to play Janeway for all seven seasons.

Which film actress was first cast as Janeway but quit on her second day of filming Voyager's pilot?

Geneviève Bujold, the Canadian star of Anne of the Thousand Days, had the captain renamed Nicole Janeway, then walked almost at once, unused to the hectic pace of television.

In early drafts, what was Captain Janeway's first name?

Elizabeth was the name in the earliest drafts, before Kathryn was settled on; the character's given birthplace, Bloomington, Indiana, unveiled a Janeway bust in October 2020.

Which actor plays the Doctor, Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram?

Robert Picardo plays the EMH, a program built only for short emergencies that becomes the ship's sole physician when Voyager is stranded without its medical staff; he also plays its creator, Lewis Zimmerman.

The actor who plays the Doctor first auditioned for Neelix, a part that went to which friend of his?

Ethan Phillips won Neelix and sat through hours of prosthetics for every episode, while his friend, who had also read for the part, was offered the hologram instead.

The Doctor's actor won the part by improvising a line riffing on which classic Trek catchphrase?

McCoy's 'I'm a doctor, not a…!' was the model: asked only to say that someone forgot to terminate his program, the actor ad-libbed 'I'm a doctor, not a night light' and got the part.

Who plays Seven of Nine, who joined the cast at the start of season four?

Jeri Ryan joined in 1997 as a Borg drone cut off from the Collective, a character the producers added to bring fresh energy, and bigger ratings, to the fourth season.

What was Seven of Nine's human name before the Borg assimilated her?

Annika Hansen was her name; her parents Magnus and Erin Hansen were researchers who took her along as a small child on a mission to study the Borg.

Seven of Nine's family was assimilated aboard which Federation ship?

Raven was her parents' research ship; years later Seven is drawn to its wreck on a moon, where she relives the day the Borg took the family.

Which two-part episode introduced Seven of Nine and invaders from "fluidic space"?

Scorpion takes its title from the fable of the scorpion and the frog, which Chakotay retells with a fox to warn Janeway against making a pact with the Borg.

Which enemy, native to fluidic space, is so powerful that Voyager allies with the Borg to fight it?

Species 8472 is the Borg designation; the Borg started the war by invading fluidic space to assimilate their biological technology, and 8472's bio-ships could destroy a cube.

Which species harvests organs from other races because of a disease called the Phage?

The Vidiians strip organs from the living to replace their own, rotted by the Phage; in their first appearance they beam the lungs out of Neelix, who survives on a holographic pair.

Which nomadic hunter race controls the ancient relay network that first lets Voyager contact Starfleet?

The Hirogen claim the ancient relay stations as their own and cut in when Voyager borrows the network to beam the Doctor across the galaxy to a Starfleet ship.

Which Next Generation character makes two-way contact with Voyager from Earth in 'Pathfinder'?

Reginald Barclay, obsessed with the lost ship, defies orders and uses the MIDAS array to open a micro-wormhole, giving Voyager a brief two-way conversation with Starfleet.

Which Voyager crew member belongs to the Ocampa, a telepathic species that lives only about nine years?

Kes is the Ocampa: she joins the crew in the pilot and leaves in season four as her powers surge, flinging the ship ten years closer to home as a parting gift.

Neelix, Voyager's cook and morale officer, belongs to which species?

Neelix is a Talaxian from Rinax, a moon of Talax; his family died in the Haakonian attack there, and in season seven he leaves to join a Talaxian colony.

Which rank does Tuvok reach when Janeway promotes him in season four?

Lieutenant commander is the rank Janeway gives Tuvok in the season-four episode 'Revulsion'; the Vulcan had earlier infiltrated Chakotay's Maquis ship as a Starfleet spy.

Which actor plays Tom Paris?

Robert Duncan McNeill plays Tom Paris, the hotshot pilot whom Janeway demotes to ensign and jails for a month in 'Thirty Days' after he defies orders to protect an ocean world.

The actor who plays Tom Paris first appeared in The Next Generation's 'The First Duty' as which disgraced cadet?

Nicholas Locarno was the template for Tom Paris, but the writers wanted a story of redemption and felt Locarno was past saving, so they built a new pilot on the same lines.

Before joining Voyager, Tom Paris was serving time at a Federation penal settlement in which country?

New Zealand hosts the Federation Penal Settlement where Janeway finds Paris in 'Caretaker'; the admiral's son had been cashiered from Starfleet and then caught flying for the Maquis.

Chief engineer B'Elanna Torres is half human and half what?

Klingon is her other half: her mother Miral was Klingon and her father John Torres human; she marries Tom Paris early in season seven and names their daughter Miral.

Which actor plays first officer Chakotay?

Robert Beltran, star of the 1982 cult comedy Eating Raoul, plays Chakotay, a Maquis rebel captain whom Janeway makes her second-in-command when their stranded crews merge.

Ensign Harry Kim, played by Garrett Wang, holds which post aboard the ship?

Operations officer is Kim's post, running the ops station on the bridge; fresh from the Academy in the pilot, he is still an ensign when the ship gets home.

Which crew member has a child, Naomi, the first baby born aboard Voyager?

Samantha Wildman, a xenobiologist, gives birth to Naomi in season two; half Ktarian, Naomi grows up fast, makes Neelix her godfather and befriends Seven of Nine.

Which former Borg child stays aboard Voyager when the three rescued with him leave for new homes?

Icheb stays when the other three children leave; in 'Child's Play' his own parents turn out to have engineered him as a living weapon, bred to carry a pathogen into the Borg.

In which Voyager episode does Tom Paris break warp 10 and mutate into a salamander-like creature?

'Threshold' is the episode: Janeway mutates too and the pair leave amphibian offspring on a planet; its own writer later called it a "royal, steaming stinker", yet it won an Emmy for makeup.

What is the being called when Tuvok and Neelix are merged in a transporter accident?

Tuvix, played by guest star Tom Wright, pleads to go on living, and when the Doctor refuses to end a life, Janeway carries out the separation herself to bring Tuvok and Neelix back.

Which That '70s Show actor guest-starred as timeline-rewriter Annorax in 'Year of Hell'?

Kurtwood Smith, Red Forman on That '70s Show, played Annorax; the Year of Hell had been foreshadowed a season earlier in 'Before and After', and the reset button undoes it all.

Which Voyager cast member directed 'Living Witness', where a backup Doctor is reactivated 700 years later?

Tim Russ, Tuvok himself, directed 'Living Witness', in which an alien museum remembers Voyager's crew as ruthless war criminals until the revived hologram sets the record straight.

Which Next Generation star directed Voyager's 100th episode, 'Timeless', and makes a cameo in it?

LeVar Burton directed 'Timeless' and appears as Captain Geordi La Forge, whose USS Challenger chases Chakotay and Kim as they try to undo the crash that buried Voyager in ice.

Tom Paris's black-and-white holodeck serial, the setting of 'Bride of Chaotica!', is called what?

Captain Proton is the rocket-pack hero Paris plays in his 1930s-style serial; in 'Bride of Chaotica!' Janeway has to join in as Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People, to save the ship.

In 'Message in a Bottle', the Doctor is transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant and lands on which new Starfleet ship?

USS Prometheus, an experimental warship with multi-vector assault mode, is where the Doctor materialises, finding it hijacked by Romulans; with its EMH Mark II he retakes the ship.

Which custom shuttle does Voyager's crew build with Borg-inspired technology in 'Extreme Risk'?

The Delta Flyer, built by the crew in 'Extreme Risk' with Borg-inspired systems, could even submerge, diving into an ocean world in 'Thirty Days'.

In Voyager's finale, Admiral Janeway returns from the future and infects which villain with a deadly pathogen?

The Borg Queen assimilates the admiral, who is carrying a pathogen that cripples the Collective; she had come back from a future where the trip home took 23 years.

What is the title of Voyager's two-hour series finale?

'Endgame' aired on 23 May 2001; the crew destroys a transwarp hub on the way home, and Torres gives birth as the ship bursts out of the conduit near Earth.

Voyager was the first Star Trek series to do what for its exterior space shots?

Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for the CGI title sequence, though weekly episodes still used miniatures until midway through season three.

Which composer wrote Voyager's Emmy-winning main theme?

Jerry Goldsmith composed the theme, which won the 1995 Emmy for main title music; unlike The Next Generation, Voyager did not recycle his Motion Picture march.

Roughly how many US viewers watched the two-hour pilot 'Caretaker' in January 1995?

21 million US viewers saw 'Caretaker' on 16 January 1995, the biggest audience the series ever drew, and the pilot was one of the most expensive yet made.

How many days did the pilot 'Caretaker' take to shoot?

31 shooting days went into 'Caretaker', against about seven for a regular episode, filming from 7 a.m. on the Paramount stages The Next Generation had used.

How many episodes of Voyager were made across its seven seasons?

172 episodes is the total over seven seasons, from 'Caretaker' in January 1995 to the finale in May 2001, counting each feature-length instalment as two.

USS Voyager, registry NCC-74656, belongs to which starship class?

Intrepid class is Voyager's type, a design able to land on a planet: in 'The 37's', atmospheric interference forces the crew to set the whole ship down on its landing struts.

Which Next Generation character turns up on Voyager and asks Janeway to have his child?

Q, played by John de Lancie, wants a child with Janeway to end a civil war among his own kind; she turns him down, and he has a son with a female Q instead.

Which astronaut tweeted Janeway's 'There's coffee in that nebula' from the ISS in 2015?

Samantha Cristoforetti, the Italian ESA astronaut, tweeted the line as a Dragon cargo craft arrived with the ISSpresso machine in April 2015, posing in a Starfleet uniform.

In which animated series does Janeway return, first as a hologram and later commanding the USS Dauntless?

Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated series that began in 2021, has hologram Janeway mentor the Protostar's young crew while Vice Admiral Janeway hunts the missing ship, once captained by Chakotay.

Which Voyager documentary raised a then-record $1.2 million from fans in 2021?

To the Journey is the toast the crew raises in the series finale; its makers, 455 Films, beat their own crowdfunding record, set by the Deep Space Nine film What We Left Behind.

Which 2000 first-person shooter, built on the Quake III engine, is set aboard Voyager?

Elite Force casts the player in the Hazard Team, a security squad invented for the game to take on the ship's most dangerous missions, and the show's cast voiced their own characters.

The future king of which country appears as a silent extra in the Voyager episode 'Investigations'?

Jordan's Abdullah II, then a prince and a fan of the show, plays an unnamed science officer in the opening scene; not being in the actors' union, he was not allowed a line.

Which wrestler turned film star fights Seven of Nine in the arena in Voyager's 'Tsunkatse'?

Dwayne Johnson, then wrestling as The Rock, did his own stunts and used one of his signature ring moves on Seven, in a tie-in with a wrestling show on Voyager's network.

Which comedian plays astronomer Rain Robinson, who spots Voyager above 1990s Los Angeles in 'Future's End'?

Sarah Silverman's stargazer, working at the Griffith Observatory, takes the starship in orbit for alien life, then helps the crew confront a tycoon who got rich on future technology.

Which vanished aviator do Voyager's crew find frozen in cryostasis on a distant world in 'The 37's'?

Amelia Earhart and her navigator are among eight humans kept frozen since the 1930s; once revived, she chooses a new life among the settlers there over a long trip home.

In Voyager's 'Distant Origin', the reptilian Voth learn they evolved from which Earth creatures?

Dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs were their ancestors, a truth the Voth rulers call heresy; the scientist who proves it is put on trial, a story the writer modelled on Galileo and the Church.

The actress behind Voyager's Captain Janeway later played a Russian cook called Red in which Netflix series?

Orange Is the New Black cast her as Galina 'Red' Reznikov, ruler of the prison kitchen, and the part earned her a first Primetime Emmy nomination in 2014.

Which Renaissance master's workshop does Voyager's Janeway recreate on the holodeck to think in?

Leonardo da Vinci, played by John Rhys-Davies, later ends up at large in an alien trading city after thieves raid the ship, and decides he must have sailed to America.

Which war do alien hunters make Voyager's brainwashed crew refight in 'The Killing Game'?

World War II in occupied France is the setting, with Janeway running a restaurant as cover for the Resistance and every crew member convinced the role is real life.

Which Seinfeld star plays Kurros, spokesman for a band of alien geniuses, in Voyager's 'Think Tank'?

Jason Alexander took the part soon after his sitcom ended, playing a schemer who offers to rescue the ship from its pursuers and then names his price: Seven of Nine.

In Voyager's 'Flashback', Tuvok relives serving under which Kirk-era officer, by then a captain?

Hikaru Sulu commands the Excelsior in Tuvok's memories, with George Takei back in the chair for an episode made to mark Star Trek's 30th anniversary.

Chakotay captained a ship for which band of rebel colonists before becoming Voyager's first officer?

The Maquis were set up in episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine before Voyager began, so that its mixed crew of officers and outlaws arrived with a history.

Tuvok, Voyager's security chief and a spy when the series begins, belongs to which species?

Vulcan calm made Tuvok a good spy: he opens the series planted among Chakotay's rebels as a Federation agent, informing on the very crew he will end up serving beside.

Which Next Generation officer does Q summon to Voyager as a witness in 'Death Wish'?

William Riker learns that the immortal at the centre of the hearing once carried his wounded ancestor off a Civil War battlefield; without him there would be no Riker to testify.

Fair Haven, the holodeck village where Voyager's Janeway falls for a barkeeper, is in which country?

Ireland's Fair Haven tempts the captain into cheating: she reprograms the barkeeper to suit her, making him brighter and deleting his wife, then locks herself out of further changes.

Voyager's holographic Doctor, also a keen photographer, becomes a devotee of which musical genre?

Opera fills his off-duty hours, and his singing makes him a celebrity among the Qomar, an advanced people who had never come across music of any kind.

Which 29th-century device, acquired in 'Future's End', lets Voyager's Doctor leave sickbay?

A mobile emitter is fitted to him by the villain, a 20th-century tycoon who wants to keep watch on his captive, and the Doctor holds on to it afterwards.

In Voyager's 'Learning Curve', which food made by Neelix infects the ship's bio-neural gel packs?

Cheese from the galley spreads a microbe through the ship's organic circuitry, and the cure is to give Voyager a fever, heating the gel packs until the infection dies.

Which feat, never before shown by a Federation starship, does Voyager perform in 'The 37's'?

Landing on a planet called for fold-out legs, an effect the production crew liked so little that they kept the ship's feet out of shot where they could.

Which Next Generation regular appears in three Voyager episodes about efforts to reach the ship?

Deanna Troi turns up in 'Pathfinder', 'Life Line' and 'Inside Man', each time as confidante to the anxious engineer leading the effort to reach Voyager.

Voyager's Janeway, promoted to vice admiral, has a brief cameo in which Star Trek film?

Nemesis reached cinemas in 2002, the year after Voyager ended, and gives Janeway a short scene that confirms her promotion after bringing the ship home.

Which actress played Kes, Neelix's young Ocampan companion, in the first three seasons of Voyager?

Jennifer Lien left the regular cast in season four, when Kes's growing mental powers were written as a danger to the ship, and came back for one episode in season six.

Which actress plays Voyager's engineer B'Elanna Torres and later became a busy television director?

Roxann Dawson first directed on Voyager itself, with the episode 'Riddles', and went on to direct episodes of Cold Case, Heroes, The Closer and The Good Wife.

Which nomadic species, split into eighteen rival sects, are Voyager's main early enemies?

The Kazon were disliked even by the show's own cast, who did not find them strong villains, and they regularly appear on lists of the worst foes in Star Trek.

Seska, who joins Voyager's crew passing as a Bajoran, is exposed as a spy for which species?

Cardassian blood gives her away in a medical test; Seska tries to pass it off as the legacy of a bone marrow transplant, then flees to the ship's enemies.

In Voyager's 'Eye of the Needle', a tiny wormhole links the crew to a ship of which species?

Romulan captain Telek R'Mor agrees to pass on the crew's letters home, then it emerges that the wormhole also crosses time: he is speaking from twenty years in the past.

Voyager's Captain Janeway was born in Bloomington in which US state, as a monument there records?

Indiana's Bloomington unveiled a bronze bust of its future daughter in 2020, funded by a fan campaign, some three centuries before the character is due to be born.

In Voyager's 'Heroes and Demons', the Doctor's first away mission is inside which poem on the holodeck?

Beowulf crept into the script by accident: the writer wanted Vikings on the holodeck, then noticed his plot was following the poem and added direct references.

In Voyager's pilot, the ship is searching which volatile region when it is swept across the galaxy?

The Badlands, a volatile nebula, had just sheltered the rebel ship Janeway was hunting; a strange beam scans each vessel there before a wave flings it to the far side of the galaxy.

Voyager's holographic Doctor was given the face of which Starfleet engineer, his programmer?

Lewis Zimmerman lent the hologram more than his looks: early episode captions and publicity even called the character Dr. Zimmerman, before he became simply the Doctor.

Which actress, the Borg Queen of the film First Contact, returns to the part in Voyager's finale?

Alice Krige created the role on film in 1996 and reclaimed it for Voyager's last episode; she has since been the Queen again in Lower Decks and in the final season of Picard.

Which Rage Against the Machine guitarist plays Crewman Mitchell in Voyager's 'Good Shepherd'?

Tom Morello, a Star Trek fan, had asked the producer for a walk-on in the film Insurrection; the producer, whose son loved the band, later gave him a speaking part on Voyager.

Which This Is Spinal Tap star plays a sadistic clown who feeds on fear in Voyager's 'The Thaw'?

Michael McKean's clown rules a shared dream that was meant to be a paradise for sleepers in stasis but grew out of their fears; only the holographic Doctor is immune to him.

Which actor, the voice of the killer doll Chucky, plays murderous crewman Lon Suder in Voyager?

Brad Dourif's Suder kills a shipmate over nothing more than a look; when Tuvok melds minds with him to understand why, the killer grows calm and Tuvok takes on his violent urges.

Voyager's 'Q2' casts which real-life relative of Q actor John de Lancie as the unruly teenage Q?

His son Keegan de Lancie plays the bored young immortal, whom Q leaves in the care of Janeway, the boy's godmother, in the hope that she can teach him some discipline.

Which other stranded Starfleet ship, led by Rudy Ransom, does Voyager meet in a season cliffhanger?

USS Equinox had crossed the same vast distance only by slaughtering alien creatures to boost its engines, a secret its captain tries to keep from Janeway.

Which species' weapon ship erases whole civilisations from history in Voyager's 'Year of Hell'?

The Krenim captain has spent 200 years erasing peoples from time, trying to restore his own after an earlier change brought a plague that killed vast numbers, his wife among them.

Which faster-than-warp technology powers the fake Starfleet ship in Voyager's 'Hope and Fear'?

Quantum slipstream could get the crew home in months rather than decades, which is what makes the trap so tempting, but Voyager's own hull cannot take the stress for long.

Which future Lost star plays an astronaut who reaches Voyager in 'Blink of an Eye'?

Daniel Dae Kim's astronaut grew up on tales of the ship in the sky: on his world, where years pass in minutes, Voyager has hung overhead for most of its people's history.

In which sixth-season Voyager episode does a much older Kes come back to the ship?

Fury has her ram the ship and leap back in time, convinced that her old friends abandoned her and set on rescuing her younger, innocent self from them.

Sandrine's, the waterfront bar Tom Paris recreates on Voyager's holodeck, is in which French port?

Marseille's Sandrine's was a haunt of Paris's academy days; his holodeck copy, pool table included, became a regular off-duty hangout for Voyager's crew.

What name do Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres give their daughter, born as Voyager reaches home?

Miral was the name of B'Elanna's mother: in an earlier episode the engineer, near death, meets her in the afterlife of her mother's people and tries to save her from dishonour.

In which seventh-season Voyager episode does Neelix leave the ship for good?

Homestead finds a colony of his people living inside an asteroid, far from their own space, where a widowed mother gives Neelix a reason to stay behind.

Which species does Voyager catch dumping toxic waste into an inhabited starless void in 'Night'?

The Malon captain turns down Janeway's offer of technology that would recycle the waste cleanly, because it would put a waste hauler like him out of business.

Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry at the end of which seventh-season Voyager episode?

Drive has Tom propose in mid-race, and the episode ends with the newlyweds slipping away on honeymoon while the crew join the post-race celebrations.

In 'Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy', Voyager's Doctor reprograms himself to gain which human habit?

Daydreaming lets him star as the ship's all-conquering Emergency Command Hologram, and alien spies tapping into his program mistake the fantasies for real intelligence.

In Voyager's 'Author, Author', a hearing over the Doctor's holonovel rules that he counts as what?

An artist was as far as the arbiter would go: he ducked the question of whether a hologram is a person, but the ruling let the Doctor recall his pirated novel.

Which NewsRadio comedian plays a newer holographic doctor in Voyager's 'Message in a Bottle'?

Andy Dick plays the Mark II, an upgraded version of the same program; the two holograms, with no crew to help, must win back a hijacked experimental warship.

Which My Favorite Martian star plays the Starfleet gardener Boothby in Voyager's 'In the Flesh'?

Ray Walston's Boothby is not what he seems: his Starfleet Academy is a copy built on an alien training ground, far from Earth, and he is the senior alien present.

Which Cabaret Oscar winner plays an old man who takes Voyager's Janeway for his daughter in 'Resistance'?

Joel Grey had acted with Voyager's leading lady before, in a 1985 action film; his character Caylem keeps trying to free a wife who in truth died in prison years earlier.

Which actor plays Henry Starling, the tycoon exploiting a crashed timeship in Voyager's 'Future's End'?

Ed Begley Jr. plays a mogul with a secret: Starling found the crashed ship in 1967 and copied its technology to found his company and start the microcomputer revolution.