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This Star Trek: Voyager trivia quiz has 50 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 the distance the Caretaker's displacement wave throws the ship, to the far side of the galaxy; wormholes, Borg technology and one helpful admiral later shorten the trip.
Q 04How long is the journey 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 originally cast as Janeway but quit after two days of shooting the pilot?
Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold, the Canadian star of Anne of the Thousand Days, had the character renamed Nicole, then walked after two days, unhappy with the punishing television pace.
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, whose program wears the face of its creator, Lewis Zimmerman, also played by Picardo, and was only designed for short-term emergency use.
Q 09Robert Picardo auditioned for Voyager's 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 Picardo, who had also read for the part, was cast as 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: left alone in sickbay with no lines, Picardo 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 the liberated Borg drone, a role the producers conceived as Data in reverse: a human turned machine rediscovering her humanity.
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 exobiologists who pursued the Borg aboard the USS Raven, and the episode 'The Raven' revisits their fate.
Q 13How old was Seven of Nine when she was assimilated?
Six
Six is her age at assimilation: born in 2350, she was taken with her parents in 2356 and spent eighteen years as a drone before Voyager freed her.
Q 21Which rank does Tuvok reach when Janeway promotes him during the journey?
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
The casting notice literally asked for 'a Robert Duncan McNeill type', which his agent spotted.
Q 23Robert Duncan McNeill played which disgraced cadet in The Next Generation's 'The First Duty' before Tom Paris?
Nicholas Locarno
The producers swapped Locarno for a new character with a near-identical backstory, reportedly to avoid paying royalties to the TNG writers.
Q 14Which two-part episode introduced Seven of Nine and a species from "fluidic space"?
Scorpion
The title comes from the fable of the scorpion and the frog, which Chakotay tells with a fox, warning Janeway against allying 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 Delta Quadrant species harvests organs from other races because of a disease called the Phage?
The Vidiians
The Vidiians strip organs from living victims to replace their own, rotted by the Phage; they were invented for the series, as were the Kazon.
Q 17Which nomadic hunter race controls the ancient relay network that first lets Voyager contact Starfleet?
The Hirogen
The Hirogen hold the relay stations, built by a long-vanished civilisation, and object when Voyager borrows the network to send the Doctor to the Alpha Quadrant.
Q 18Which Next Generation character establishes regular contact with Voyager from Earth in 'Pathfinder'?
Reginald Barclay
Barclay's obsession with the lost ship pays off with a communications array and micro-wormhole tech.
Q 19Kes belongs to the Ocampa, a telepathic species with a lifespan of how many years?
Nine
Nine years is the Ocampan span, which is why Kes ages fast; Jennifer Lien played her until 'The Gift' in season four and returned once, in 'Fury'.
Q 20Neelix, the ship'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.
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, a Mexican-American stage actor, plays Chakotay; he knew little about Star Trek when he auditioned and simply liked the 'Caretaker' script his agent sent over.
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 chooses to stay aboard Voyager after being rescued from a malfunctioning cube?
Icheb
The other three eventually find adoptive homes; Icheb's fate years later became one of Star Trek: Picard's most controversial scenes.
Q 30In which Voyager episode, often called Star Trek's worst, does Paris break warp 10 and turn into a salamander?
Threshold
'Threshold' is the episode: Janeway ends up mutated too, the pair spawn amphibian offspring the crew leaves on a planet, and it still won a 1996 Emmy for makeup.