Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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50 free Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds went back to the oldest idea in the franchise: one starship, one crew and a different adventure every week. It follows Captain Pike's Enterprise in the years before Kirk took command, and each episode tries on a new genre, from horror and comedy to a full-blown song-and-dance number. This quiz covers the whole voyage. There are questions on the crew and the actors behind them, on the episodes fans talk about most, on the enemies and guest stars who turn up, and on how the show is designed, scored and filmed. A few reach back to the 1960s stories that the series builds on. It is written for anyone who has watched the show, not only for lifelong Trekkers. The early questions are ones a casual viewer can work out, and the later ones reward people who know their deep-space lore.
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Q 01Captain Pike's quiff in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was likened to Elvis Presley's and which cartoon character's?
Johnny Bravo
Johnny Bravo was the comparison that stuck, and the captain's hair went on to inspire memes and its own fan-run Twitter account. The actor underneath it gives the credit to a stylist he calls a hair guru.
Q 02Which animated comedy crossed over with Strange New Worlds when two of its ensigns appeared in live action?
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Lower Decks sent Ensigns Boimler and Mariner back in time to meet their heroes on Pike's Enterprise. The actor playing Boimler studied his cartoon self so he could copy its distinctive speed walk.
Q 03Which reptilian species, first seen fighting Captain Kirk in 1967, menaces Pike's crew in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
The Gorn
The Gorn were slow, hissing brutes in the 1960s, but here their hatchlings are small, fast and instantly lethal. The ship's security chief is the sole survivor of one of their attacks.
Q 04Which star of The Boys appears in live action as time-travelling Ensign Brad Boimler in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Jack Quaid
Jack Quaid had only ever voiced Boimler in a cartoon, and the crossover was suggested by a writer who worked with him on the superhero satire. He kept the character's odd, hurried walk for the live version.
Q 05In the first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Starfleet's General Order One is given which famous new name?
The Prime Directive
The Prime Directive gets its name after Pike breaks the old rule to stop a planet destroying itself with a weapon copied from starship engines. Starfleet responds by renaming the rule and doubling down on it.
Q 06Which Taxi and The Princess Bride actress joined Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as the centuries-old engineer Pelia?
Carol Kane
Carol Kane invented Pelia's unplaceable accent herself, so that nobody could work out where the character comes from. She first tried it at a script reading held over Zoom, and the producers loved it.
Q 07La'An and an alternate James Kirk are sent back to which 21st-century Canadian city in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Toronto
Toronto needed little disguise, because the series is made in and around the city. The pair go there to find out why history has changed, and fall for each other along the way.
Q 08Which famous Star Trek technology does La'An test, with dangerous results, in a Strange New Worlds murder mystery?
The holodeck
The holodeck traps her inside a whodunnit about a 1960s sci-fi show when its safety protocols fail. Afterwards she advises Starfleet against general use until the technology improves.
Q 09Which Flight of the Conchords comedian plays the meddling wedding planner Trelane in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Rhys Darby
Rhys Darby's Trelane is a child-like being from another dimension, a role first played by William Campbell in 1967. The prank ends only when the trickster's father turns up to tell him off.
Q 10What does Captain Pike often do for his officers in his quarters in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, to build consensus?
Cooks them dinner
Pike cooks them dinner in a kitchen built into his quarters, an idea drawn from the lead actor's own way of leading. His culinary skills later help him stir up a mutiny aboard a pirate ship.
Q 11Which Hell on Wheels star plays Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Anson Mount
Anson Mount first signed only a one-year deal to play Pike on another show, and fans campaigned for him to get a series of his own. He has said the part changed his life.
Q 12Which grandson of the Oscar-winning star of To Kill a Mockingbird plays Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Ethan Peck
Ethan Peck shaved off his own eyebrows for the part, which cut the time needed to fit Spock's ears and brows from two hours to 70 minutes. He says he keeps checking his performance against Leonard Nimoy's.
Q 13Which actress, Mystique in the original X-Men films, plays Number One in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Rebecca Romijn
Q 21La'An, security chief in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, descends from which tyrant played on film by Ricardo Montalbán?
Khan
Khan is an ancestor she pays for: La'An has faced prejudice all her life because of the family link. In one episode she is thrown back in time and has to save him as a child.
Q 22Number One hides which genetically modified heritage, banned by Starfleet, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Illyrian
Illyrian blood makes her immune to a contagion sweeping the Enterprise, so she gives up her secret to let a cure be made from it. She then offers to resign, and Pike refuses.
Q 23Which kind of story is Ad Astra per Aspera, the Strange New Worlds episode about Number One's genetic secret?
A courtroom drama
Rebecca Romijn's character was known only by her nickname in the 1960s; the series makes official the name Una Chin-Riley, borrowed from tie-in novels. She also urged the costume designer to revive the uniform dress.
Q 14Which star of The Vampire Diaries plays a young James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley was once William Shatner's neighbour, and the two happened to share a plane ride around the time the casting was announced. Shatner gave the new Kirk his blessing.
Q 15Which Tony-nominated star of the musical Jagged Little Pill plays Cadet Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Celia Rose Gooding
Celia Rose Gooding chose natural hair for the part over a wig matching earlier Uhuras. The role was among the performer's first on television, which suited a cadet still finding her feet aboard the Enterprise.
Q 16Strange New Worlds spun off from which series, whose second season introduced its Pike and Spock?
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery brought in the Enterprise trio for a single season, but fans called so loudly for more that the producers gave them a show of their own. Three short films kept the actors busy in between.
Q 17Which streaming service, formerly called CBS All Access, is the home of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Paramount+
Paramount+ ordered the show under its old name, and later called it the service's most-watched original Star Trek series over its first 90 days. In Britain it ranked second among all of the service's originals.
Q 18The video-wall sets of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds use technology first developed for which Disney+ series?
The Mandalorian
The Mandalorian pioneered the wall of LED screens that shows computer-made backdrops live during filming. The Star Trek version is a 270-degree horseshoe about 70 feet wide, with more panels in the ceiling for light.
Q 19Which actor, famous as Star Trek's Commander Riker, directed the Strange New Worlds episode Those Old Scientists?
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes counted it as the 222nd Star Trek episode he had worked on. He had been due to direct in the first season as well, until the pandemic upset his schedule.
Q 20In Star Trek, which registry number marks Pike's Enterprise, the very ship that James T. Kirk later commands?
NCC-1701
NCC-1701 is the same starship in both eras, with Pike in command during the decade before Kirk takes the chair. For the new series its bridge set was made more compact, closer to the size of the 1960s original.
A courtroom drama, it ends when her lawyer argues that she was in effect seeking asylum by joining Starfleet. The showrunners wrote her cliffhanger arrest before they knew how the story would be resolved.
Q 24Where does Dr. M'Benga secretly keep his sick daughter in the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
In the transporter
In the transporter, she is held in stasis so that her rare disease cannot advance while he hunts for a cure. The outdated machine he uses lets a virus slip past the Enterprise's filters.
Q 25In the Strange New Worlds episode The Elysian Kingdom, what belonging to Dr. M'Benga's daughter do the crew act out?
Her favourite book
Her favourite book is a high-fantasy tale, and a lonely nebula with a mind of its own stages it to keep the girl company. Only her father and the telepathic chief engineer notice that something is wrong.
Q 26In the Strange New Worlds episode Spock Amok, what mishap befalls Spock and his fiancée during a soul-sharing ritual?
They swap bodies
They swap bodies, so each has to do the other's job: she helps Pike through a tricky negotiation while Spock tries to coax lapsed Vulcans back to logic. The doctor and nurse finally put them right.
Q 27Which character, first seen in the 1967 episode Amok Time, is Spock's fiancée in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
T'Pring
T'Pring has been bonded to Spock since childhood, and the new series gives her a career of her own, rehabilitating Vulcans who have abandoned logic. In the 1960s she appeared in just one story.
Q 28Which half-sibling of Spock from the film Star Trek V is revealed as a prisoner in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Sybok
Sybok is the lover whom the pirate captain Angel wants freed, which is why Angel seizes the Enterprise and threatens to kill Spock. Spock admits the family tie only afterwards, to Nurse Chapel.
Q 29Which actress, later married to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, first played both Number One and Nurse Chapel?
Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett played Number One in the first pilot, then came back in a blonde wig as Nurse Chapel. She went on to voice most Starfleet computers from 1966 to 2008.
Q 30Which star of The Searchers was the first actor to play Captain Christopher Pike, in Star Trek's original 1965 pilot?
Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter declined to return when the network ordered a second pilot, preferring to concentrate on his film career. The producers replaced his captain with a new one, James T. Kirk.