Star Trek: Voyager Trivia
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This Star Trek: Voyager trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and covers all seven seasons of the ship's 70,000-light-year trip home, from the Caretaker's array to the Borg transwarp hub in Endgame. There are questions on the crew (why Janeway was almost called Elizabeth, the actress who quit after two days, the line the Doctor improvised to win the part, the TNG character Tom Paris used to be), on the aliens of the Delta Quadrant (Kazon, Vidiians, Hirogen, Species 8472 and the Borg), and on the episodes fans still argue about: the warp-10 salamanders of Threshold, the ethics of Tuvix, Year of Hell, Living Witness, Timeless and Bride of Chaotica!. It also gets into production trivia: the first Trek series shot with CGI, Jerry Goldsmith's Emmy-winning theme, the sets recycled for the Enterprise-E, the record-breaking crowdfunded documentary, and where the coffee-in-that-nebula line was tweeted from. Every answer has been checked against the show's Wikipedia page and the pages for its characters and episodes, and each explanation adds one detail worth remembering.
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Q 01Star Trek: Voyager was the first series to air on which new network in January 1995?
UPN
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.
Q 02Voyager is stranded in which quadrant of the galaxy?
Delta
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.
Q 03Roughly how far from Earth is Voyager when the Caretaker's wave strands it?
70,000 light-years
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.
Q 04How long is Voyager's trip home projected to take when the ship sets off?
75 years
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.
Q 05Which actress plays Captain Kathryn Janeway?
Kate Mulgrew
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.
Q 06Which film actress was first cast as Janeway but quit on her second day of filming Voyager's pilot?
Geneviève Bujold
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.
Q 07In early drafts, what was Captain Janeway's first name?
Elizabeth
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.
Q 08Which actor plays the Doctor, Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram?
Robert Picardo
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.
Q 09The actor who plays the Doctor first auditioned for Neelix, a part that went to which friend of his?
Ethan Phillips
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.
Q 10The Doctor's actor won the part by improvising a line riffing on which classic Trek catchphrase?
McCoy's 'I'm a…, not a…!'
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.
Q 11Who plays Seven of Nine, who joined the cast at the start of season four?
Jeri Ryan
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.
Q 12What was Seven of Nine's human name before the Borg assimilated her?
Annika Hansen
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.
Q 13Seven of Nine's family was assimilated aboard which Federation ship?
Raven
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.
Q 21Which rank does Tuvok reach when Janeway promotes him in season four?
Lieutenant commander
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.
Q 22Which actor plays Tom Paris?
Robert Duncan McNeill
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.
Q 23The actor who plays Tom Paris first appeared in The Next Generation's 'The First Duty' as which disgraced cadet?
Nicholas Locarno
Q 14Which two-part episode introduced Seven of Nine and invaders from "fluidic space"?
Scorpion
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.
Q 15Which enemy, native to fluidic space, is so powerful that Voyager allies with the Borg to fight it?
Species 8472
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.
Q 16Which species harvests organs from other races because of a disease called the Phage?
The Vidiians
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.
Q 17Which nomadic hunter race controls the ancient relay network that first lets Voyager contact Starfleet?
The Hirogen
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.
Q 18Which Next Generation character makes two-way contact with Voyager from Earth in 'Pathfinder'?
Reginald Barclay
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.
Q 19Which Voyager crew member belongs to the Ocampa, a telepathic species that lives only about nine years?
Kes
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.
Q 20Neelix, Voyager's cook and morale officer, belongs to which species?
Talaxian
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.
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.
Q 24Before joining Voyager, Tom Paris was serving time at a Federation penal settlement in which country?
New Zealand
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.
Q 25Chief engineer B'Elanna Torres is half human and half what?
Klingon
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.
Q 26Which actor plays first officer Chakotay?
Robert Beltran
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.
Q 27Ensign Harry Kim, played by Garrett Wang, holds which post aboard the ship?
Operations officer
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.
Q 28Which crew member has a child, Naomi, the first baby born aboard Voyager?
Samantha Wildman
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.
Q 29Which former Borg child stays aboard Voyager when the three rescued with him leave for new homes?
Icheb
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.
Q 30In which Voyager episode does Tom Paris break warp 10 and mutate into a salamander-like creature?
Threshold
'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.