Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth.
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Warp 13… Was this overlooked?
In the final episode of TNG (All Good Things) Captain Beverly Picard, and Admiral Riker both travel at Warp 13, but in Voyager the warp limit is warp 10.
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Does Lt. Ro speak of Tuvok in TNG episode Preemptive Strike?
In TNG: Preemptive Strike Lt. Ro talks of one of her instructors that was the rank of Lt. Commander who left Starfleet to join the Maquis? That seems to fit Tuvok's record at the beginning of VOY ...
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How did they know where to point PathFinder?
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Pathfinder" (Season 6, Episode 10), Reginald Barclay suggests opening a communication wormhole, and goes rogue when not getting permission immediately.
How did he ...
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Why don't ships in Star Trek go above the galactic plane?
Related to Why do Star Trek vessels always approach each other on parallel planes?, but on a larger scale.
The premise of Star Trek: Voyager is that the ship Voyager is stranded from Earth on the ...
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How do command authorization codes work in Star Trek?
In Star Trek franchise there are command codes that seems to give you access to the ships systems, can you change or at least disable them?
In one episode of ST:VOY the captain, B'Elana and Tuvok are ...
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How did the duplicate Voyager make it as far as the real Voyager?
In the Voyager episode "Course: Oblivion", the duplicate Voyager that was created on the "demon class" planet made it to the same location as the actual Voyager which (a few episodes earlier) traveled ...
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Why did Voyager use up their transwarp coil all at once?
In the Voyager episode "Dark Frontier", Voyager got a transwarp coil from a Borg sphere. They used it all up and traveled 20,000 light years at once. It would have been very good for them to use ...
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Why didn't Star Trek: The Next Generation change their uniforms when ST:Deep Space 9 came out?
DS9 came out during the 6th season of TNG. From the onset of the show, DS9 used uniforms that looked like this:
However, TNG continued the use of this uniform(taken from episode 10 of season 7):
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What became of the backup Doctor from Living Witness?
In the Voyager episode Living Witness a backup copy of the Doctor sets off to follow Voyager's path, to see if they ever made it home. As this copy of the Doctor did not begin his pilgrimage until ...
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The Borg witnessed Vulcan & Human first (pre-warp) contact?
In the Voyager episode Year of Hell - Part 1 Seven of Nine says that the Borg witnessed Human and Vulcan first contact before either of them were warp-capable civilizations:
SEVEN: The correct ...
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Do the Klingons or Romulans have starbases as the Federation/Cardassians do?
Is there any mention anywhere of Klingon or Romulan Starbases which resemble those of the Federation? We know that they have outposts and colonies. I could only think of the Cardassians having ...
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How and where are those giant starbases built in Star Trek? How long does it take to build one?
We know ships are built in shipyards and take few months to be finished. But how are those giant starbases built ? Those screened on screen seem to be a hundred times larger than the Enterprise, so my ...
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Any EU Mention of the content of the Constitution of the United Federation of Planets?
Are there further mentions of this Constitution in the books, perhaps with other Guarantees?
In canon, the 7th Guarantee is mentioned in ST:TNG S04E21 that I am rewatching now, paraphrased in Memory ...
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Is there an in-universe explanation for how mobile communicators stop listening in TNG?
In Star Trek The Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager, it seems common for officers to touch their communicators to initiate a conversation but it's unclear when the person on the other side stops ...
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Is The Doctor (EMH Mark I) technologically similar to the holodeck?
The creator of the Emergency Medical Hologram - EMH (beginning with Mark I), Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, was the 'Director of Holographic Imaging and Programming' at Jupiter Station. It can be expected his ...
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Why the name changes for Janeway?
According to Wikipedia, Geneviève Bujold wanted Voyager's Janeway's first name to be changed from Elizabeth to Nicole. Later, Kate Mulgrew requested the name to be changed again to Kathryn. Why did ...
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Can a replicator replicate a replicator?
As the title suggests, can a replicator replicate a (presumably slightly smaller)replicator?
If it could, could it replicate a better replicator? One that works at the quantum level, like the ...
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What are the size limits of a Federation replicator?
Are there any size limits on the items that a replicator can produce? Has there been shown any different sizes of replicators capable of replicator large objects? What are the smallest and largest ...
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Who is the first human to be assimilated by the Borg?
Was the family of seven of nine the first humans to be assimilated in the 2350s? Was it because of them that the Borg first learnt about humanity?
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Why doesn't the Doctor's Matrix degrade again?
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Swarm", the Doctor's matrix begins to degrade, the EMH diagnostic hologram (the 'Dr Zimmer' hologram) attributes this degradation to the Doctor's operating time ...
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Why don't Starfleet Officers wear protective gear when going abroad?
So I've watched pretty much all the Star Treks and from what I've seen, Star Trek officers don't wear any protective gear! Why don't they wear any kind of armor like the Klingons? Is it because the ...
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What was the entity looking for that took Voyager into the Delta quadrant? [closed]
What was the entity looking for that took Voyager into the Delta quadrant?
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Why were surgical gowns not used on Voyager?
In both TNG and DS9, surgical gowns were used. These gowns covered the wearer's entire body, with the exception of the face. They never go into why they wear the gowns, but it is assumed that it is ...
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What happened to B'elanna's engineering jacket?
Starting around the beginning of the 4th season of Star Trek Voyager, B'Elanna Torres started wearing an engineering jacket including pocket protector and everything.
At the start of the 5th season, ...
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How old is Captain Janeway?
Before jumping to an answer, my question is more than the difference between the current date and her birthdate.
Multiple times in the Voyager series, there is a time skew.
Blink of an Eye: Voyager ...
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Why does the Doctor in Voyager tell everyone about his mobile emitter?
In multiple instances in Star Trek: Voyager, this sequence of events happen:
A character asks the Doctor how he is able to exist outside of the holodeck/sickbay
The Doctor informs them of the mobile ...
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How did Voyager replace its photon torpedoes?
In Star Trek Voyager The Cloud Chakotay states that they have 38 photon torpedoes at their disposal, and Janeway states that they have no way of replacing them once they are gone.
CHAKOTAY: We ...
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Why was Tom Paris made Chief helms officer?
This is an extension to this question about Tom Paris getting his rank.
Why was Tom Paris made the Chief helms officer, was there no other, more senior helms officers on board? Or was every other ...
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In Star Trek:Voyager why does Tom Paris get Starfleet rank, but the Maquis get provisional rank?
Once Voyager is stranded in the Delta quadrant Janeway gives Tom Paris the rank of Lieutenant and he gets two little dots on his collar.
Janeway gives the Maquis crew including Chakotay rank on ...
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Why didn't fluidic space crush Voyager?
When Voyager is taken into fluidic space against its will in Scorpion Part II, why didn't the intense density of matter instantly crush the ship?
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Why does the Doctor need so much time to think and do research?
The Doctor is a holographic program and runs off the computers processing power. Why then would he need time to make decisions and do research at the same pace as a person?
His brain should run ...
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Why is Relativity a ship?
In the Voyager episode "Relativity", the events are centered partially around the timeship of that name. But if you are exploring (or monitoring) time rather than space, what is the reason for doing ...
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Why did Voyager have tricobalt torpedoes?
Why did voyager have the tricobalt torpedoes with them in the first episode of the series?
Seven of Nine brought this up in "The Voyager Conspiracy" (Season 6). Was there any truth to what Seven was ...
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Why are all the Q named “Q”
Why do all of the Q in star trek call themselves Q? It makes for confusing episodes, like the ones in VOY when there are 3 Q on their ship.
But not only is it confusing, I think it is rather ...
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Temporal Prime Directive in ST: Voyager (spoiler) [duplicate]
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Why didn't the time cops try to stop Janeway when she traveled back in time to rescue Voyager?
How come in Voyager there are many times when the ship and crew travel ...
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Does a new species always need to contribute a technology advancement in order to be assimilated by the Borg?
Does a new species always need to contribute a technology advancement in order to be assimilated by the Borg, or do the Borg assimilate less advanced races as well, thus trading collective IQ for ...
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Did any of TOS 5 year mission first contacts aliens show up in later Star Trek episodes as Borg?
Are there any examples of Star Trek TOS aliens being assimulated by the Borg in any of the following versions of the Star Trek TV/Movie franchise?
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Do the Borg assimilate down to the last being?
When the Borg assimilate a planet, do they assimilate down to the last sentient being and wipe out the entire population, or do they keep a portion of the population around as breeding stock?
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What does “Seven” and “nine” mean in “Seven of Nine”?
She is one of a gajillions of Borg drones. What exactly does "Seven of Nine" means as far as drone identifications? Shouldn't she have some GUID instead?
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Is The Doctor (EMH) a Doctor Who reference?
Is Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, which doesn't have a name other than "Doctor":
a tip of the hat from Paramount to The Doctor from BBC's Doctor Who?
While Robert Picardo doesn't have any ...
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Does the Doctor have a name? [closed]
In Voyager an emergency medical protocol hologram becomes the primary medical officer, developing he ability to sing, a personality and even friends.
Does he ever get a name which he stuck with? What ...
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What would have happened if the Doctor hadn't removed Seven's implants?
In the Voyager series, the Borg drone Seven of Nine is captured and reverted to a more or less human state when the Doctor removes her implants.
What would have happened, to both Seven and the ...
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What was the reason for using a new ship instead of The Enterprise in ST:VOY?
Story & cast of almost all TV series & movies of Star Trek are based on the Enterprise(if the storyline is based on a Starship). The exception is Star Trek: Voyager (ST:DS9 was based on a ...
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Was Tom Paris based on the Character Nick Locarno from Star Trek TNG
In the episode "The First Duty" TNG Robert Duncan McNeill plays a character called Nick Lacarno who as part of Flight squad caused an accident which resulted in the death of another cadet, he was ...
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Why can't a Federation Starship's transporter history be used to bring someone back to life?
I've always been a little confused by the fact that when a crew member dies they don't just use the transporter history to bring that person back. I'm aware that this wouldn't make for good TV, but I ...
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How do the voyager holoemitters work?
In the TNG holodecks, as I understand it, the experience is a combination of force fields and directed photons (which come from the wall) to create the illusion of a 3d environment. So how do the ...
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How do Voyager's nacelles' rotation solve the problems stated in Force of Nature
I've seen lots of answers here about the episode "Force of Nature". The episode is about scientists discovering that travelling at speeds greater than warp 5 destroys subspace. It's been stated a few ...
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Does Commander Chakotay have a first name?
In all of the episodes of Star Trek: Voyager that I've seen, I've never heard anyone call Commander Chakotay by any other name. This includes formal and informal settings. Does he have an official ...
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What is the penalty for violating the “Prime Directive” without Federation sanctioned justification?
I previously asked about the circumstances that allowed forgoing the "Prime Directive". The answer stated "All these people have violated the Prime Directive more than once: Kirk, Picard, Riker, Worf, ...
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In ST:Voy, 3:21 “Before and After,” why would Kes go back in time in spurts?
I just watched the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Before and After" (Episode 21, Season 3), wherein Kes keeps jumping backwards in time because of some chroniton particles. Is there any reason why she ...
