Voyager and the Pips: Starfleet Ranks in the Delta Quadrant / April 27, 2014 by Trek fm

Trek fans can sound just like U.S. Naval Academy graduates: They know the difference between a lieutenant (junior grade) and an ensign, and they know that a crewman better stand up straight when speaking with a captain. Fictional centuries — and real-time decades — may separate all of the Star Trek incarnations, but there is a consistency in how Starfleet ranks are shown from the 22nd to the 24th centuries.

Would Gene Roddenberry Have Created Voyager? / August 16, 2012 by Lorrie Sears

Star Trek: Voyager was one of two series created with the Star Trek name without the consultation of the franchise creator Gene Roddenberry. After Roddenberry’s death in 1991, Rick Berman became the “heir apparent,” carried on with TNG and eventually created the aforementioned series.

Janeway and Chakotay: The Relationship that Never Was… Or Was It? / February 10, 2012 by Trek fm

Troi and Riker. Paris and Torres. Worf and Dax. Janeway and Chakotay.

Wait, Janeway and Chakotay? Yes… sort of. It’s the relationship that’s been the topic of an endless stream of discussion—and fan fiction—since the mid-1990s.