50 Fun Facts About Travelers

Which Will & Grace star leads Travelers as Grant MacLaren and directed its season two finale?

Eric McCormack was also a producer on the series, and he announced its cancellation himself in February 2019.

Travelers operatives take over present-day hosts at which point, chosen to limit changes to history?

Moments before their deaths is the rule because a host who was about to die anyway leaves the smallest mark on the timeline when a stranger takes over the body.

In Travelers, the Director speaks to teams through which messengers, who can survive a brief takeover?

Young children can be animated by the Director for a short time without harm, whereas the same trick would risk killing an adult.

Trevor Holden in Travelers is one of the oldest humans ever, sent into the body of which host?

A high school athlete is his cover, so one of the oldest minds alive spends the series being grounded by parents and worrying about grades.

Which rule heads the six standing orders that Travelers operatives from the future must live by?

The mission comes first, yet Philip breaks that very rule in season two when he remotely disarms a bomb to save a teammate.

The main mission of Travelers season one is to deflect Helios 685, which kind of threat to Earth?

An asteroid called Helios 685 was due to kill millions, and deflecting it risked erasing the operatives' own births in the future.

MacKenzie Porter, Marcy in Travelers, has also topped Canadian charts in which music genre?

Country suits her roots: she was raised on a cattle and bison ranch near Medicine Hat, Alberta, and began studying piano, violin and voice at four.

David Mailer in Travelers first knows Marcy through which job, before the two fall in love?

Social worker David looks after the original Marcy, which leaves him confused when the woman in his care suddenly seems like someone else.

Philip Pearson in Travelers inherits which problem from the college student whose body he takes over?

Heroin addiction comes with the host body, and the rest of the team only learns of it after Philip is shot and Marcy reveals his secret.

The earliest operative sent back in Travelers arrives in a host meant to die in which real disaster?

The September 11 attacks were chosen so his arrival would change nothing, but he fled the World Trade Center instead of dying there and went into hiding.

Which Stargate SG-1 co-creator created the time-travel drama Travelers and wrote its opening episode?

Brad Wright co-created Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and Universe, and several of that franchise's directors followed him onto his new show.

Which Canadian channel co-produced the first two seasons of Travelers before Netflix took over alone?

Showcase aired the series in Canada while Netflix carried it everywhere else, an arrangement that ended when the streamer became sole commissioner for season three.

Travelers is set in the United States but was shot in and around which Canadian city?

Vancouver stands in for the show's American setting, and the finale sends MacLaren to the real Whytecliff Park just outside the city.

Carly Shannon, living as a single mother in Travelers, fills which specialist role on MacLaren's team?

Tactician is Carly's job from the future, yet her cover life in the present is a custody fight to keep her baby son.

Jeff Conniker in Travelers, Carly's abusive ex and the father of her son, works in which job?

Police officer Jeff uses his badge to dig into the team after noticing how its members have changed, and by the final season his own body is taken over twice.

Before an operative from the future overwrites her, Grace Day in Travelers holds which job at Trevor's school?

Guidance counselor Grace genuinely cares about Trevor, so he kidnaps her to save her from a fatal accident, only for her to be overwritten anyway.

Ray Green, Philip's lawyer in Travelers, presses him for knowledge of future results to feed which habit?

Gambling outcomes also serve as an early warning: late in season one Philip spots results drifting away from the historical record.

In the Travelers episode "17 Minutes", the Director keeps overwriting a host who is doing which activity?

Skydiving puts her close enough to reach the ambushed team, and each new arrival learns from the last failure until the repeated overwrites damage the host.

Which numbered rule in Travelers, also the title of a season two episode, orders operatives not to reproduce?

Protocol 4 hangs over season two, when MacLaren's wife Kat becomes pregnant while the couple are trying to repair their marriage.

In the Travelers episode "Bishop", MacLaren gives up his place in a stasis field during which disaster?

A plane crash is the setting: MacLaren hands his protection to his wife, then tries to ride out the impact using only Philip's knowledge of how it unfolds.

Which Veronica Mars and Galaxy Quest actor plays the rogue villain of Travelers, a test subject who ran?

Enrico Colantoni, best known as Keith Mars, plays a man whose trip back was only ever meant to be a test of the time-transfer technology.

Which Stargate SG-1 star directed several Travelers episodes and appeared as psychologist Katrina Perrow?

Amanda Tapping, who played Samantha Carter for ten seasons, directed more of the show than anyone except Andy Mikita, including the series finale.

Which future Manifest star plays Carrie, the host overwritten again and again in Travelers season two?

Melissa Roxburgh plays a string of different operatives inside one body, which is why her character is credited as Travelers 5001 to 5007.

Leah Cairns, Kat MacLaren in Travelers, flew as Raptor pilot Racetrack in which science fiction series?

Battlestar Galactica brought her in at the end of its first season, and the showrunners liked her enough to keep the pilot around for the rest of the run.

Before acting, Travelers star Jared Abrahamson spent two years doing which job in Flin Flon, Manitoba?

Underground miner was his job in his home town, itself a mining town, until he left to study acting at Vancouver Film School.

Nesta Cooper followed Carly in Travelers by playing Haniwa in which post-apocalyptic Apple TV+ series?

See cast her as one of two sighted twins in a future where most of humanity is blind, a part she played from 2019 to 2022.

Kat MacLaren, the wife who senses her husband has changed in Travelers, works in which profession?

Interior designer Kat ends the marriage in the final season, feeling that MacLaren is no longer the man she met.

Which pet does lawyer Ray Green give Philip Pearson to look after in the first season of Travelers?

A turtle arrives in the same episode in which the whole team suffers hallucinations of their old lives, a side effect of an antitoxin.

Travelers drew criticism in its third season for using real footage of which deadly Canadian tragedy?

Lac-Mégantic rail disaster footage reached the show through a stock film company, and the producers said they had not known its origin and would re-edit the episode.

What powers the x-ray laser aimed at Helios 685 in Travelers, a fuel the team steals from a military convoy?

Antimatter first has to go back to the lab it came from, because the team fails to upgrade its containment device in time.

Which rebel group from the future rejects the Director in Travelers and sends its own operatives back?

The Faction wants to save the future with one drastic blow rather than many small changes, and in season two that means a plague meant to kill two billion people.

Which everyday technology lets the future pinpoint hosts in Travelers by archiving exact GPS positions?

Smartphones leave a record of where each person stood at a given instant, and the future keeps those coordinates on file to aim each transfer.

Host coordinates in Travelers combine time, latitude, longitude and which fourth measurement?

Elevation completes the set the show calls TELL, and in season one Philip covers a warehouse wall with the coordinates of every doomed person the team is forbidden to save.

With no orders from the Director, Travelers operatives fall back on a fifth rule: maintain what?

Their host's life is the cover story, which is why the episode named after this rule sends the team back to jobs, school and marriages.

Which order in Travelers means the Director has abandoned its operatives and suspended every other rule?

Protocol Omega is declared when the future has either been fixed or judged beyond fixing, and it gives the series finale its title.

In the Travelers episode "21C", the team protects a young girl destined to hold which office?

US President is her future: she is due to be the 53rd to hold the job, and the team is sent to back up another crew guarding her.

In the Travelers episode "Archive", an operative on a vital mission arrives in a host who is secretly what?

A serial killer is arrested moments after the takeover, so the team has to break their newly arrived mathematician out of custody to finish his mission.

Travelers season two reveals that Marcy's host was left disabled by a botched experiment run by whom?

Vincent Ingram tried out an unfinished mind-transfer machine on the original Marcy, a truth she uncovers by putting herself into a near-death state.

When Marcy is reset to cure her failing brain in Travelers season one, what does she lose?

Her 21st-century memories vanish, David among them, so the team has to introduce the two of them all over again.

After MacLaren is gravely injured in Travelers, Trevor endures a painful procedure to grow which organ?

A heart for transplant is what Trevor suffers to grow, and while MacLaren lies unconscious he relives his host's marriage to Kat.

In Travelers season three, which supercomputer built by Dr. Teslia lets the Director talk to the present day?

Ilsa is borrowed by the Director without warning, then makes a sudden leap in ability that surprises even the engineer who created it.

Which fictional brain disorder leaves Trevor repeatedly frozen in place during the third season of Travelers?

Temporal aphasia had struck only one person before him, his own wife, and he had drawn up plans for a cure without ever building it.

What kills David Mailer near the end of Travelers, after he disarms a device in the last surviving archive?

Radiation exposure is fatal because no medical team arrives from the future, and with his last breath David passes on a final order from the Director.

In the last moments of Travelers, the Director accepts that its original attempt failed and begins what?

A second traveler program, labelled version two, begins after MacLaren goes back and warns the Director never to send the earliest operative.

In the rewritten timeline that closes Travelers, the original Marcy and David meet by chance in which place?

On a bus the two simply sit side by side and start talking, and this Marcy has never been harmed by the show's villain.

Which future treatment heals MacLaren's injuries in Travelers yet proves useless against the season two virus?

Medical nanites fail against the engineered plague, so the only fix left is to restart the Director in the future and have it send back a cure.

Simon, who built the communications system in Travelers, lands in a host who develops which illness?

Schizophrenia leaves him haunted by visions of the show's villain, who had tricked him into building a mind-transfer machine in the present day.

In the first-season finale of Travelers, programmer Ellis reveals which device hidden in the barn on his farm?

A quantum frame is a vessel built to receive a download of the Director itself, giving the machine an escape route from its enemies in the future.

Which FBI agent becomes MacLaren's new partner and the bureau's liaison in Travelers season three?

Joanne Yates earns the job after the Director feeds her classified details that persuade the FBI's chief to call off a raid on MacLaren's team.

Which jaded rival team leader in Travelers demands that MacLaren kill his own FBI partner to avoid exposure?

Rick Hall also insists on leading a merged team, and MacLaren answers by arresting him, though the two later end up fighting on the same side.