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
Paramount commissioned the show partly to launch the network, and it ran there for all 172 episodes until May 2001.
Q 02Voyager is stranded in which quadrant of the galaxy?
Delta
It is on the far side of the Milky Way, and the crew's goal for seven seasons is simply to get back to the Alpha Quadrant.
Q 03Roughly how far from Earth is Voyager when the Caretaker's wave strands it?
70,000 light-years
At maximum warp that works out to about 75 years, which the crew whittles down with wormholes, Borg tech and one very helpful admiral.
Q 04How long is the journey home projected to take when the ship sets off?
75 years
Janeway strands them deliberately, destroying the Caretaker's array so the Kazon can't use it against the Ocampa.
Q 05Which actress plays Captain Kathryn Janeway?
Kate Mulgrew
She was already on the shortlist when the original choice walked, and it was she who suggested the first name Kathryn.
Q 06Which film actress was originally cast as Janeway but quit after two days of shooting the pilot?
Geneviève Bujold
She had asked for the character to be renamed Nicole; unhappy with the punishing TV schedule, she left and the part was recast within days.
Q 07In early drafts, what was Captain Janeway's first name?
Elizabeth
Kathryn was the eventual star's suggestion; the character was later given a birthplace of Bloomington, Indiana, where fans now want a monument.
Q 08Which actor plays the Doctor, Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram?
Robert Picardo
The EMH Mark 1 wears the face of its creator, Lewis Zimmerman, and was only ever 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
He later joked that losing it 'saved myself 6,000 hours of my life spent in a makeup chair'.
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…!'
Left alone in sickbay with no lines left, he ad-libbed 'I'm a doctor, not a nightlight' and was hired within hours.
Q 11Who plays Seven of Nine, who joined the cast at the start of season four?
Jeri Ryan
Rick Berman wanted 'a bit of pizzazz' after three seasons and inverted the Data idea: a human turned into a machine rediscovering humanity.
Q 12What was Seven of Nine's human name before the Borg assimilated her?
Annika Hansen
Her parents Magnus and Erin were exobiologists studying the Borg, and the episode 'The Raven' digs into what happened to them.
Q 13How old was Seven of Nine when she was assimilated?
Six
Her full designation was Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01; she later returned as a series regular in Star Trek: Picard.
Q 21Tuvok is the only crew member promoted during the journey. What rank does he reach?
Lieutenant commander
The Vulcan had secretly infiltrated Chakotay's Maquis ship before both crews were flung across the galaxy.
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
The Borg started that war themselves by invading fluidic space to assimilate the newcomers' superior technology.
Q 16Which Delta Quadrant species harvests organs from other races because of a disease called the Phage?
The Vidiians
They, the Kazon, the Hirogen and Species 8472 were all created for the show; the Borg were borrowed from The Next Generation for the later seasons.
Q 17Which nomadic hunter race controls the ancient relay network that first lets Voyager contact Starfleet?
The Hirogen
The Doctor is beamed across it to the Alpha Quadrant in 'Message in a Bottle', where he lands aboard the experimental USS Prometheus.
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
Jennifer Lien left the show early in season four in 'The Gift' and returned once, in 'Fury'; she retired from acting in 2002.
Q 20Neelix, the ship's cook and morale officer, belongs to which species?
Talaxian
His family died in a Haakonian attack on his home moon of Rinax; late in season seven he leaves to live with a colony of his own people.
Q 24Before joining Voyager, Tom Paris was serving time at a Federation penal settlement in which country?
New Zealand
The son of an admiral, he had been dishonourably discharged and then arrested flying for the Maquis.
Q 25Chief engineer B'Elanna Torres is half human and half what?
Klingon
She marries Tom Paris early in season seven and gives birth to their daughter Miral in the series finale.
Q 26Which actor plays first officer Chakotay?
Robert Beltran
He knew nothing about Star Trek when he auditioned; he just liked the 'Caretaker' script his agent sent over.
Q 27Ensign Harry Kim, played by Garrett Wang, holds which post aboard the ship?
Operations officer
Fresh out of the Academy in the pilot, he is still an ensign when the ship gets home seven years later.
Q 28Which crew member has a child, Naomi, the first baby born aboard Voyager?
Samantha Wildman
Naomi grows up fast thanks to alien biology, makes Neelix her godfather and becomes an unlikely friend to 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
Janeway ends up mutated too and the pair have amphibian offspring, which the crew leaves on a planet; the episode still won an Emmy for makeup.